Sentence examples for standoff against from inspiring English sources

The standoff against Yukos and the Kremlin remains tense.

Mr. Abayat, who spent more than five weeks in a standoff against Israeli guns, could soon be in battle again.

Will the South Korean people allow its government to blindly follow U.S. plans to draw its country in a standoff against China?

The summer war, Lipman said, was seen as "a standoff against America, with the Russians victorious, as the Americans were unable to defend their client and ally".

Or there's Karen O's Clytemnestra-like stagainstagainsthehe audience whenever she takes the stage with her band, the Yeah Yeah Yeahs.

"He was an amazing, amazing man," said Carol Bundy, wife of Nevada rancher Cliven Bundy, who led the standoff against the federal government in 2014.

It has been withering as its three Republican members force 3-to-3 standoff votes against the Democrats that have effectively rendered the commission utterly toothless while candidates exploit loopholes favoring runaway "super PACs" and contrived "social welfare" campaign operations.

Their cause, however, has been taken up by a loose coalition of right-wing groups led by Ammon Bundy, the son of Nevada rancher Cliven Bundy, who led an armed standoff last year against the US Bureau of Land Management (BLM) over a 20-year legal dispute that involved unpaid cattle grazing fees.

MUMBAI, India -- Indian commandos rescued some hostages in raids on Thursday as standoffs continued against heavily armed militants who a day earlier had swept into Mumbai, India's commercial capital, in a shocking series of coordinated and bloody attacks.

The standoff has unfolded against the backdrop of two other major crises.

BEIRUT, Lebanon — A group of powerful rebel brigades in northern Syria is struggling to defuse an armed standoff pitting insurgents against an affiliate of Al Qaeda for control of a strategic town near the Turkish border.