When my oldest son began attending the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in the fall of 2010, I told my newspaper coworkers that I would stage a standoff with the Illinois National Guard at the entrance to Gregory Hall -- home of the school's journalism department -- should he attempt to major in journalism.
Jackie Calmes and Michael D. Shear write that President Obama has no plans to negotiate with Republicans, who are demanding spending cuts as part of a deal to raise the debt ceiling in February, setting the stage for another standoff that could imperil the economic recovery.
At a meeting in Luxembourg on Friday, the European Union's environment ministers set the stage for a standoff on global warming at the summit meeting.
WASHINGTON — House Republicans on Friday marched confidently toward approving the largest spending cuts in modern history, setting the stage for a standoff with Senate Democrats and the White House that each side has warned could lead to a shutdown of the federal government early next month.
Minutes after Ali Mohsen's defection, tanks belonging to the republican guards, an elite force led by the president's son Ahmed Ali, rolled into the streets of Sana'a, setting the stage for a standoff between defectors and loyalists.
Catalan lawmakers rekindled the constitutional crisis Monday by naming Puigdemont as their sole candidate to lead the regional parliament in a vote to be held later this month, setting the stage for another standoff with Madrid.
Their philosophy gained traction in the west in 2014 when their father Cliven Bundy staged a standoff with the federal government at the family's ranch after refusing for years to pay grazing fees.
Despite repeated entreaties by agents, friends, a Paulist priest and Mr. Wojtowicz's mother to end the standoff, it continued as darkness fell and floodlights brightened the stage.
The standoff began on Tuesday.
In Southbury, the standoff continues.
