Sentence examples similar to stand off today from inspiring English sources

That the stand-off today in Burns, Oregon is seen in very different terms than had been Wounded Knee, even with recent national hysteria about gun-violence and terrorism, is clear not only in how the media and politicians have responded to this dramatic event, but also in how federal law enforcement has.

He starred as Captain Peter Skellen, who infiltrates a terrorist group and ends up in a siege with remarkable similarities to the real-life Iranian embassy stand-off two years earlier.

BBC Radio Leeds reports that chairman Jack Fulton turned down the bid for the 26-year-old stand-off earlier this week.

Anadolu said the complaint also cited the publication of a photograph of leftist militants holding a gun to the head of a prosecutor in a deadly hostage stand-off earlier this year.

— After a middle-of-the-pack finish in his 2013 debut, Phil Mickelson stood off the 18th green at the Palmer Private course at PGA West on Sunday and talked about having to make, in his own words, "drastic changes".

The Hurva Synagogue today stands off a plaza in the centre of Jerusalem's Jewish Quarter.

Bradley Orr returned it first time to send DJ Campbell haring beyond the central defence which, half an hour earlier, had stood off to let Aaron Cresswell complete a concerted assault with an astute finish.

The impact velocities of 30 50 m/, impact angle 15 90°   and stand-off distance 15 25 mm are chosen as operating parameters to investigate the variation of data of erosion rate.

The 21-year-old Bath stand-off missed last weekend's 30-17 loss to South Africa after suffering concussion in the 27-17 defeat by Samoa.

The stand-off lasted two weeks.

In Depth: US-China relationsINEVITABLY, Americans and Chinese see the stand-off over last Sunday's mid-air collision off southern China very differently.