Sentence examples for standoff from from inspiring English sources

"We are happy there is some resistance," said one Palestinian man, who gave his name as Abu Abed, 60, as he watched the standoff from a nearby building.

What other explanation can there be for Tuesday's farcical maneuvers, which saw the House Republican leadership try and fail to seize the initiative in the debt-ceiling standoff from the Senate, in the process humiliating Speaker Boehner yet again.

7.45pm BST An interesting solution to the Assange standoff from his friend Tariq Ali, who suggests that Ecuador make Assange a citizen, and then appoint him as an attaché to the embassy, therefore giving him diplomatic immunity.

MOSCOW — President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia on Tuesday appeared to rule out sending Edward J. Snowden back to the United States to face espionage charges, leaving him in limbo even as Moscow and Washington seemed to be making an effort to prevent a cold-war-style standoff from escalating.

One discovery was audiotapes, never broadcast, of Jennings, Cosell and John Wilcox, a producer who was filming the Olympic Village standoff from a dormitory, speaking by walkie-talkie as the terrorists prepared after dark to take their hostages to a bus, which would take them to two helicopters and a waiting jet.

With help from the media, the GOP had snatched at least a standoff from the jaws of defeat.

The issue with Syria is that in addition to diplomatic standoffs from outside nations, not many nations can afford to have continued military presence, including Russia.

The civilians of the Kajaki area are suffering the most from the standoff, driven from their homes and unable to farm their fields, the workers said.

Then they can consider these questions: How is the current standoff different from the 1995-96 shutdown?

But there was no way to end the standoff apart from ending Hussein's dictatorship.

The change in Turkish policy came after a rapprochement with Moscow, which followed a six-month standoff stemming from the downing of a Russian fighter jet.