Sentence examples for resolve a standoff from inspiring English sources

Rio Tinto bought Riversdale Mining for around $4 billion in 2011 after increasing its offer price to resolve a standoff with Riversdale's shareholders.

He also reiterated a call for dialogue with the North to resolve a standoff over the inter-Korean industrial zone in the North Korean town of Kaesong.

Since the strike began this March, Amref has not been able to resolve a standoff with the VHTs and there is no sign of an imminent solution.

They failed to resolve a standoff over Austria's insistence that Turkey be offered less than full membership in the accession talks.

But on that Wednesday, the morning after the Israeli prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, had failed to resolve a standoff over new construction in East Jerusalem with Mr. Obama in White House talks, the major discussion topic was the Middle East.

Cross-party cooperation in Northern Ireland has come under fresh strain as emergency talks aimed at preventing the collapse of the power-sharing executive failed to resolve a standoff over welfare cuts.

That could create an opening for resolving a standoff with the United States, the officials said.

The move resolves a standoff between the company and the Senate Judiciary antitrust subcommittee, which had threatened to subpoena Mr. Schmidt or Google's chief executive, Larry Page.

Congressional backers of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration hailed the announcement as resolving a standoff between Congress and the White House over the agency's future.

The action resolves a standoff between the Cablevision chairman, Charles F. Dolan, and a son, who is the chief executive, over whether to continue to finance the operation.

WASHINGTON — The Obama administration moved Monday to complete free trade agreements with South Korea, Colombia and Panama, submitting the deals for Congressional approval after resolving a standoff of months with Republicans over the details of a package both sides said they favored.