Sentence examples similar to stand off ended from inspiring English sources
The stand-off ended with the government authorities backing away from a cattle round-up, in order to avoid violence.
The four-day stand-off ended with a special forces mission in which 29 hostage-takers died, and three were captured by Algerian troops.
The Warrington Wolves stand-off ended a two-year absence in 2010 to lead Wales to qualification for the tournament.
The stand-off ended with a dawn round of sustained gunfire and big explosions that sent clouds of black smoke into the sky.
If you have a stand off end with some meaningful question before walking off to have them think about and decide that they're wrong or argue later for you to have another chance.
Mr Bush's presidential ambitions will thus remain undamaged if the stand-off ends in bloodshed, and if the operation is a success he can beamingly decorate the officers concerned.
In the latter, Peggy Ashcroft as the "she-wolf" Queen Margaret wiped his face with a rag soaked in the blood of his murdered son, and their brutish stand-off, ending in York's torture and death, was a highlight of the cycle.
We stood off to one side, at the end of the bar, and waited for a table.
Of course, the cold war was also a classic military stand-off which ended when the Soviet block finally threw off communism.
