Sentence examples for standoff by from inspiring English sources

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And that it was Rifkah, my dog Rifkah, who solved the standoff by recognizing them.

Mr. Thaxton drew attention to the standoff by updating his status on Facebook.

Erdoğan worked to resolve the standoff by calling for early parliamentary elections, in which the AKP secured a decisive victory.

The poets decide to resolve the standoff by peeling out of the driveway in a friend's car; they will go to the Sonora Desert, in search of Tinajero.

Many had hoped the country's supreme court would end the standoff by ruling on Thursday on the legality of Maiteeq's election.

Some brokers end closing-room standoffs by digging into their own commissions for the comparatively few dollars it might take to leap over tall egos and conclude the deal.

In too many incidents to list here, mentally ill individuals have ended SWAT standoffs by provoking cops into shooting them.

On the fifth day of a standoff waged by about 30 rightwing militia, led by the son of Nevada rancher Cliven Bundy, the political battle lines of a dispute that is garnering attention across the world splintered.

The sprawling plant here was not damaged by the earthquake or tsunami but sits idled anyway because of a standoff caused by a legal quirk: Japanese law requires reactors to be shut down every 13 months for routine checkups, which typically take three or four months.

The investigation of the standoff led by former Senator John Danforth was independent, not Congressional.