Sentence examples for something of a standoff from inspiring English sources

The game of Risk that is conference realignment has produced something of a standoff between Brigham Young and the Big Not-so-East.

"I am intrigued with Trump's ability to disequilibrate what was something of a standoff [between the US and China]," Schell added.

Even so, those preferences have caused something of a standoff with Vice President Al Gore, who readily accepted the commission's plans for three debates.

Indeed, in the 24 hours before S&P took its historic decision, there was something of a Mexican standoff between the ratings agency and the White House, as the two sides argued fiercely over its logic.

It's something of a Mexican Standoff.

For a time, the battle was something of standoff, but Republicans gained the upper hand in the nineties, especially in the South, where they were making big gains across the board.

So we have reached a bit of a standoff".

But the vacation is also seen as part of a standoff between Finke and Penske.

It was not clear whether the international pressure would help break the deadlock between the two rival presidents — a standoff that is emerging as something of an international test case in confronting a losing incumbent who refuses to step down.

Over the decades, there have been missteps by the West, including but not only by the U.K., and mistakes by Iran, that have created something worse than a climate of mistrust — a standoff in which both sides talk past each other.

But it could take a crisis to bring Washington and Beijing together — something like a nuclear standoff between India and Pakistan resolved only by bold cooperation between the United States and China.