Sentence examples similar to standoff behavior from inspiring English sources

Now, the military's ability to mount precision attacks on leadership targets in Iraq is being examined to see how it might apply in a tense standoff with North Korea, perhaps influencing North Korea's behavior without ever firing a shot.

The bombardment plunged Georgia into war, pitting the West against Russia in a standoff over both Russian military actions and the behavior of a small nation that the United States had helped arm and train.

This paper presents the analytical and experimental findings pertaining to the design and behavior of composite truss members with standoff screws as shear connectors.

The influences of the standoff distance and the aperture size on the bubble behavior are studied.

BEIJING — The world is growing used to reports of aggressive diplomatic and military behavior by China over ownership of the South China Sea and the East China Sea, resulting in regular standoffs mostly with Japan, Vietnam and the Philippines, some of the other claimants to disputed seas and islands there.

Standoff ends.

With a standoff.

A standoff begins.

A political standoff erupted.

That standoff persists.

A standoff ensued.