Sentence examples for previous standoff from inspiring English sources

Mr. Abbas helped found Fatah with Mr. Arafat, but he quit the central committee in anger over a previous standoff with that body and Mr. Arafat this summer.

As we observed in 2012, during the previous standoff over the Greek role in the European economy, maintaining monetary union without real fiscal or political union eventually imposes unsustainable costs on someone — in this case Germany, which ends up footing most of the bill. .

She said the International Court of Justice had dealt with previous standoffs including a case in 1950 that involved Columbia and Peru.

In a remarkable shift from their previous standoffs over the issue, senior officials from both the United States and China praised the Paris accord on Saturday night.

In previous standoffs between networks and cable companies over compensation for station signals, extensions have generally meant neither side wants to push the dispute to the point where cable customers lose access to channels.

Unlike previous standoffs of the sexes, which were polarized between 1980s androgyny and the more recent girly versus tough guy vibe, the new look seems to announce a gender truce.

The assertive moves by South Korea's right-leaning and generally pro-American president, Lee Myung-bare are a sharp departure from the conciliatory stance that the South took in previous standoffs, particularly after the North's first nuclear, test three years ago, when it continued economic aid and investment.

By doing so, Hamas built up the stamina of an Israeli population that was more impatient in previous standoffs in Gaza.

In spite of the previous political standoff, the AKP then once more nominated Gül as its candidate, and in the parliamentary elections that followed he won the presidency by a wide margin.

The "fiscal cliff" showdown at the end of 2012 had led to higher payroll taxes and had locked in earlier cuts to jobless benefits, while "the sequester" — deep and arbitrary federal spending cuts enacted to end a previous debt standoff — kicked in on March 1.

A previous debt standoff in 2011 resulted in a decision by Standard & Poor's to downgrade the government's long-term credit for the first time.