Sentence examples for standing off against from inspiring English sources

And when the ClownBloq retreated, their water-based makeup patchy with sweat, a few demonstrators still remained well past midnight, standing off against the police.

Perhaps more to the point, 2007 was one of the more turbulent years in Turkish history, with secular Turks standing off against the rising power of a pious class of politicians, and people may have been reaching back to what was familiar.

Vuillard sits solidly in a black dress while the painfully thin Marie, who is standing off to the side in a patterned dress against hyperactively patterned wallpaper, bends, as if to squeeze herself into the frame.

You're kind of standing off of air right now.

Standing off from him will help you both calm down.

This application of the framework serves to assess the extent to which standing spin-off policy in both regions is (1) up-to-date, (2) comprehensive as well as (3) sufficiently robust against 'policy fashions'.

White, timeworn churches are a favorite subject, as in "Church and Tree, Choctaw, Washington County," in which a prim old house of worship, standing in isolation, is played off against the free-form tree beside it.

Now that the Tories are in government with a majority, the source claimed Duncan Smith was standing firm against attempts to slice off bits of his budget to fund a series of giveaways, including slashing inheritance tax and raising the 40p tax threshold to benefit people on twice the national average wage.

"The reason postmodernism doesn't die", writes Lethem, "is that postmodernism isn't the figure in the black hat standing out in the street squaring off against the earnest and law-abiding 'realist' novel … postmodernism is the street".

They were standing firm against bailouts!

"Are we standing up against terrorism?