Sentence examples for standoff any from inspiring English sources

They escaped Sunday relatively unscathed, but that doesn't make this standoff any less irritating.

Al Gore's true claims didn't matter in that standoff any more than Anita Hill's true claims did during my confirmation.

Finally, on the 16th day of the shutdown, the Senate and the House voted to fund the health-care law, ending the standoff without any of the victories Cruz wanted.

In August, the national security adviser, HR McMaster, raised the prospect of a "preventative war", but many observers of the Korean standoff said any conflict was highly likely to quickly escalate into a nuclear exchange.

The crucial point here is that even if they're right about interest payments — which is unclear — the government will (a) still go into default on obligations to vendors, Social Security recipients, and so on (b) be forced into spending cuts so large as to guarantee a recession if the standoff lasts any length of time.

If they emerge from this standoff with any sense that extortion works -- and it has before -- they will return to the same tactic again, and again, and again.

Neither side in the standoff has mentioned any progress over the last several days.

Any standoff would probably not last, given the political costs of stalemate.

Speaking in Beijing on Saturday, Mr. Tillerson said he was trying to cool the bellicose rhetoric over the standoff but skirted any direct criticism of Mr. Trump.

No one quite dares to hope that a credible peace process may soon be under way, having become so used to US presidents blinking first in any standoff with the Israeli government.

No matter how much you destroy or how intimidating you appear, the police state and the military-industrial complex will always have more armor, more guns, more tear gas and pepper spray than you can take, and in any standoff, they will beat you 100percentt of the time.