Sentence examples for present standoff from inspiring English sources

The present standoff leaves the politicians with a headache.

No one can say what further impulse common European policies will take from the present standoff.

To those who have followed the two leaders' turbulent lives, the present standoff parallels the confrontation they had 20 years ago in Beirut.

But the goal of "zero centrifuges operating in Iran, permanently or temporarily" is unrealistic, and has contributed greatly to the present standoff.

But part of the reason the present standoff has arisen comes from the fact that there are actually a number of routes through Ukraine that the gas can take.

More likely, in the near term (and, one devoutly hopes, more likely than either of the unacceptables), is a continuation of the present anxious standoff, a miniature Cold War that alternates between periods of greater and lesser tension — a diplomatic version of Zeno's Paradox, with Iran edging ever closer to a bomb but never quite building and testing one.

Members of United States Special Forces were present at the standoff, the provincial police chief said.

He is believed to be Brian Buddha Cavalierer, 44, who has worked for the family some time, and was also present at the standoff at their ranch in 2014.

Pleasantville depicts the beginnings of the present implacable ideological standoff in US politics, in short-hand "the culture wars", in which an African-American could become president, but around half the population and a large part of the political establishment were revulsed by the result.

On Russian television they are invariably presented as a standoff, with Russian imposed sanctions portrayed as being equally punishing on Russia's opponents and precipitating diplomatic requests from Europe and the United States that they be eased.

DeLemus, a Tea Party activist, was present at the 2014 standoff and also traveled to the Oregon occupation this year.