Sentence examples for standoff goes from inspiring English sources

"Every day this standoff goes on, more seeds of doubt are sown — not just among American companies, but among investors around the world," he says in the speech.

If the standoff goes into mid-May, he said, the Army would have to delay the training of active-duty units, which would affect tour schedules by prolonging the stays of personnel already in Iraq and Afghanistan.

If the U.S. budget standoff goes on much longer, the German programmers could always go back to the original imagery used as background for the music: the station's 1960s-era test pattern.

As the standoff went on, a crowd gathered.

The standoff went on, and we were back home when his capture was announced.

There's a bit of a standoff going on when I arrive to interview Rob Brydon.

The standoff went on for what seemed like minutes, and then the bear dropped back to its forelegs to keep digging.

According to WCTV, the standoff went through the night and authorities have been communicating with the child through a pvc pipe in the bunker.

The shootout and ensuing standoff went on for more than an hour, as police used armored trucks to surround a bullet-riddled SUV on a San Bernardino street.

The standoff went on for a few hours, with a lot of wide armed gesturing and the anti-fascists every so often breaking through the police to have a go at the right-wingers, who all eventually sloped off to the pub a few streets away.

She also pointed out that everyone in the area has a vested interest in ending the standoff, going so far as to allege that several local members of the Spanish government were earning a second living from online gambling firms based in Gibraltar.