Because of heavy weather and difficulty in docking, it was decided that the safest option was that the vessel should withdraw to stand off at anchor outside the port," the spokesman said.
For some reason, we always walked around it along the right-field side, never the other way, and each time I would wonder about the oddly arrayed ticket kiosks (General Admission fifty-five cents; Reserved Grandstand a dollar ten) that stood off at such a distance from the gates.
Vergil defeats Dante at first, then they have a stand off at the second encounter.
For Ecuador's president, Rafael Correa, yesterday's revolt of members of the national police and 12-hour stand-off at a police hospital in Quito could not have come at a better time.
This triggered a brief stand-off at a military base in Manila between marines dressed in full combat gear and troops loyal to the president, but it was resolved without bloodshed.Ms Arroyo's critics say that she is over-reacting by declaring emergency rule.
At least 67 people died in a four-day armed stand-off at a shopping mall in the Kenyan capital, Nairobi, after ten or more members of the Shabab, a militant Islamist group from Somalia that is affiliated with al-Qaeda, seized the building.
The man's attempt to avoid divorce involves much slapstick business, including a violent stand-off at an anger management group and adept use of missed and misunderstood mobile phone messages.
Kenya's leading newspapers give extensive coverage to the continuing stand-off at an upmarket shopping centre in Nairobi, in which dozens of people died.
He appears to suggest, however, that the group was not behind the actions of Amedy Coulibaly, who shot a Paris policewoman on Thursday and killed hostages at a Jewish store on Friday as the Kouachi brothers stood off with security forces at a printworks outside the capital.
Performing at Le Poisson Rouge last May, the fifty-eight-year-old guitarist Nels Cline stood off-center, at the edge of the stage.
Dida had been granted admission to the debate at the last minute, and there was not enough room for him on the platform, so he stood off to the left, at a bulkier podium that hid everything except his head.
