Sentence examples for perpetual standoff from inspiring English sources

George F. Kennan, who is now ninety-eight years old, coined the phrase "containment," and with it the doctrine of deterrence designed to keep the world's superpowers poised in a perpetual standoff, relegated to their separate spheres of influence, forced into peace by the threat of a nuclear war too terrible to win.

Many thought Robinson was a natural number two, but he proved an effective first minister, bedding down the awkward, unwieldy system of power-sharing government, resolving perpetual crises, standoffs and cliff edges.

Standoff ends.

Perpetual daylight.

No standoff.

Perpetual travellers?

A political standoff erupted.

Perpetual luxuries.

Perpetual Groove, jamband.

Nothing is truly perpetual.

Louisiana and Illinois were perpetual leaders.