Sentence examples for odd standoff from inspiring English sources

The conflicting aims of the parties and the networks have led to an odd standoff: as the conventions become ever more scripted and ever less newsworthy in the strictest journalistic sense, the networks become ever less interested in covering them.

While this question seems obsolete in the context of the current EU Russian political impasse, it is, at the very least, odd that despite the standoff, plans for the South Stream pipeline have until recently proceeded almost apace.1 How has this been possible?

Reflecting the tense and odd nature of the standoff, McConnell's support for the Collins plan sparked a statement from the six Democrats involved suggesting they were pulling back.

We are left with a standoff.

Of all the odd things that happened during the U.S.-China airplane standoff, surely the oddest was the report that the Chinese fighter pilot who was killed, Wang Wei, had held up an e-mail address in the window of his cockpit during an earlier confrontation with a U.S. surveillance plane.

But this odd, unsuccessful movie, written and directed by Piyush Jha, is too rigged to have any broader implications about the bloody standoff in Kashmir between militants and the Indian Army.

Standoff ends.

No standoff.

With a standoff.

A standoff begins.

A political standoff erupted.