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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.

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.

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

The pointed warning, delivered by senior Democratic aides during a media briefing Thursday, marked the latest sign of a potential legal standoff between lawmakers and the Justice Department over access to Mueller's complete findings.

CAIRO — Syrian dissidents meeting in Istanbul on Sunday announced the formation of a council uniting most of their country's fractious opposition groups, a step that activists hailed as a potential breakthrough in the months-long standoff between a largely leaderless protest movement and the government of President Bashar al-Assad.

The Hollywood Reporter said a group of about 90 actors met in Wellington over the weekend amid a standoff between Mr. Jackson, the producer and potential director of a two-film "Hobbit" series, and actors' guilds based in New Zealand and Australia, which say "The Hobbit" is a non-union project and are seeking a boycott of the films.

The involvement of two senior American officials prompted speculation here that the United States was trying to broker a deal that would ease the standoff between the rivals and end the potential for violence as a coalition of opposition and citizens' groups prepared for a march that the government had banned.

A further standoff between Westminster and Strasbourg is likely.

The standoff between management and the union has lowered the price for any potential buyer.

"The spy story we saw, with all its baroque not to say barbarous elements, was there for political purposes". But the Lee case, he said, did not have to fuel Cold War II -- a standoff between the United States and China like the one between the US and USSR -- despite its potential for provoking anti-Chinese sentiment and policy.

Family friend David Horsey captured the tense standoff between the pair.