Sentence examples for prolonged standoff from inspiring English sources

The fugitive leader of a Sunni extremist group who led a prolonged standoff at a Palestinian refugee camp near Tripoli, Lebanon, may still be alive, officials said.

The destruction of the Islamabad Marriott only weeks ago foreshadowed the attacks on the Oberoi and the Taj, and the pitched gun-battle between extremists and government forces in South Mumbai has eerie echoes of last year's bloody and prolonged standoff at Islamabad's Red Mosque.

The biggest risk for prime-time advertising would be a prolonged standoff reaching into the spring's upfronts, hurting next year's sales.

NEW DELHI Indiaa is in a prolonged standoff with Chinese forces on the Doklam plateau.

Investors say a prolonged standoff may stunt India's economic recovery from a two-year drought.

What will come next — full-blown war, negotiations, or a prolonged standoff — is anyone's guess.

In Dallas (Blas Pérez, 88), Salt Lake (Ned Grabovoy, 78), and Los Angeles (Obafemi Martins, 81), late goals broke prolonged standoffs, allowing the Western Conference's best to turn one point into three.

The militants prolonged the standoff by lighting fires, detonating heavy explosives and fighting Kenyan special forces with belt-fed machineguns.In the wake of the destruction and loss of life, Kenya was swamped by an outpouring of worldwide goodwill.

Despite being holed up in order to avoid extradition to Sweden, Assange said that being at the "centre of a pitched, prolonged diplomatic standoff" meant he is never bored; and he receives visitors almost every day, while maintaining the Wikileaks organisation.

PHNOM PENH — Cambodia faces a volatile and possibly prolonged political standoff after leaders of the opposition said on Monday that they rejected the preliminary results of Sunday's election and accused the authoritarian government of Prime Minister Hun Sen of large-scale cheating to achieve a relatively narrow victory.

James Carville, an architect of Bill Clinton's election in 1992, contended that politically it would be difficult for either side to prolong the standoff beyond the Florida Supreme Court.