Sentence examples for on a standoff from inspiring English sources

In 2005, Mr. Frist, then the Republican leader, staked his reputation on a standoff with Senate Democrats over several of the president's judicial nominees that escalated into threats about rewriting Senate rules or shutting down all debate.

The Guardian focuses instead on a standoff between Hazel Blears and the Muslim Council of Britain after the communities and local government secretary suspended official links with the council over claims that its deputy general secretary condoned a Hamas call for attacks on foreign, and by consequence British, troops.

Yesterday, Peter F. Vallone, the City Council speaker, said the commission's recommendations "don't have a technical legal bearing, but certainly have great moral influence" on a standoff between the Council and Mr. Giuliani over the creation of a city-sponsored Independent Police Audit and Investigation Board.

And it's a very weird situation to be in, when you're trying to find out who you are!" Wiseman then focuses on a standoff scene involving several characters playing emotional tug-of-war with Farrell's in a lobby.

Now, even though lawmakers still don't like the idea, budget reconciliation would offer one of the easiest solutions to the current impasse and is a far more likely prospect since tea party Republicans such as Cruz insisted on a standoff that links Obamacare to funding the government.

The quarter ended with no agreement and the prospect of a standoff on raising the debt ceiling.

A woman in Baltimore was shot and killed by police in the midst of a standoff on Monday that lasted nearly seven hours.

There's a bit of a standoff going on when I arrive to interview Rob Brydon.

On the fifth day of a standoff waged by about 30 rightwing militia, led by the son of Nevada rancher Cliven Bundy, the political battle lines of a dispute that is garnering attention across the world splintered.

At a meeting in Luxembourg on Friday, the European Union's environment ministers set the stage for a standoff on global warming at the summit meeting.

– An antiwar march at the Democratic National Convention on Tuesday afternoon led to a standoff with the police, one arrest and ultimately a peaceful protest through the streets of Charlotte.