Sentence examples for standoff around from inspiring English sources
"The standoff around the DMZ has the potential to endanger global peace.
It also does not reflect the continuing standoff around the contested region of Abyei, a conflict-ridden dividing line between north and south Sudan.
As a result of this standoff, around three million households in New York, New Jersey and Connecticut have lost access to that package of 130 Yankees games.
A5 Macedonia Peace Threatened Ethnic Albanian gunmen and Macedonian police forces remained in a tense standoff around several villages, once more threatening the tortuous peace process just before a final parliamentary vote today.
Chanting students and heavily armed vigilantes remained in a tense standoff around the main student dormitories of Tehran University tonight after the government unexpectedly put the blame for five nights of escalating clashes on shadowy paramilitary forces that have long been the favored means of squelching dissent here.
Current practice for protecting buildings against such attacks is to combine measures that strengthen the building and its facade with a standoff around the building (Ettouney et al. 1996).
Selina Win Pe told the coronial inquest into the December 2014 standoff that around 2am Monis had rushed "in a panic" from the view of police snipers after discovering six more hostages had fled the cafe.
The standoff began around noon on Monday when Mr. Watson drove a jeep pulling a tractor on a trailer over the sidewalk on Constitution Avenue and into the small pond.
Japanese and Chinese navy and coastguard ships have been involved in regular standoffs around the uninhabited islands since Japan bought them from their private owners in 2012.
The swoop on Olinalá triggered marches, road blocks and standoffs around the region that led to more arrests of vigilantes and seized weapons, not always by the authorities.
The ECMM helped calm several standoffs around military barracks in Slovenia and facilitated negotiations between Slovene authorities and the JNA regarding the withdrawal of the JNA from Slovenia.
