Sentence examples for potential standoff from inspiring English sources

Skype also faces a potential standoff with the F.B.I.

The Democratic-led Senate would probably be the bigger barrier: it could move to vote on its own proposal, leading to a potential standoff between the two chambers.

At around the same time a potential standoff in the archiving project was averted, with the opposing parties at least temporarily reconciled.

Credit Suisse, under a widening investigation into foreign banks with offshore private banking services, is working to avert a potential standoff with federal authorities like the one faced by the rival Swiss bank UBS.

The tensions also extend to the East China Sea, where Japan defused a potential standoff with Beijing on Friday by deporting 14 Chinese citizens who were arrested on or near another disputed island.

That makes the two-day summit meeting, which begins Thursday, the site for a potential standoff between the Russian president, Vladimir V. Putin — the host of the gathering in St . Petersburgand a prominent ally of the Syrian leader, President Bashar al-Assad — and President Obama, with the Europeans largely on the sidelines.

Asked why the two enemies did not shake hands here, as they did six months ago at the peak of another potential nuclear standoff, General Musharraf replied: "I shook hands with him.

The potential for the standoff to further sour ties between Asia's two biggest economies was demonstrated late last month, when Japan's coastguard arrested a Chinese fisherman on suspicion of poaching coral after an 85-minute chase on the high seas.

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Rep. Sander Levin (D-Mich)., argued that the main purpose of the bill was to satisfy members of the tea party and to offer the GOP political cover in a potential debt limit standoff.

The mood of open hostility to existing human rights law merged with the potential for engineered political standoff, as the commission members are split between those who support the Human Rights Act and those who oppose it.