Sentence examples for sort of standoff from inspiring English sources

Like Mr. Stupak, they say they have worked for months to avert precisely this sort of standoff.

Although the 41-year-old Rivera is a free agent, like his longtime teammate Derek Jeter, little attention has been paid to the status of his contract talks because it has been widely assumed that he and the Yankees would eventually agree on a one- or two-year deal without having to first endure any sort of standoff, as has been the case in recent weeks with Jeter.

But Dr. Abdullah Abdullah, a former foreign minister under Mr. Karzai and a member of the Northern Alliance, said Afghanistan is too fragile to withstand this sort of political standoff.

"So we really had a kind of standoff".

But he is well versed in the sort of player-team standoff that threatens Marbury's career.

Since then America, which wants deep cuts on both agriculture and industrial tariffs, has been locked in a sort of three-way standoff with Europe and the developing world, with each side demanding that the others make deeper concessions before yielding anything further.Now they are trying in Geneva.

On arrival, he would hug us gingerly, as if embraces were a foreign custom that had in all decency to be observed, and he and my father, each in his tweed jacket, would grip each other by the up-per arms in a sort of Greco-Roman standoff.

But, one is just sort of the whole standoff in Congress between the Democrats and the Republicans.

SR is sort of a Mexican standoff.

"If that is plausible anywhere, it is probably most plausible in dealing with not just a foreign country, but a foreign country in sort of a quasi-military standoff".

We need a moment of standoff.