Sentence examples for standoff in front of from inspiring English sources
But as the sun set and the crowds grew, a standoff in front of a line of riot police officers grew increasingly tense, and by about 7 30 p.m. the fight had resumed.
The Toronto police fired one shot and freed a hostage by killing her armed assailant after a 40-minute standoff in front of Union Station, the city's main train station.
Venezuelan National Guard troops and angry supporters of President Hugo Chávez engaged in a tense standoff today in front of City Hall in Caracas.
In Cairo, a standoff took place in front of the Egyptian Museum in the early morning hours with rocks and petrol bombs reportedly flying.
The 23-year-old was shot and killed on Aug. 1 after her seven-hour standoff with police in front of her Baltimore-area home.
Amid the increasingly tense standoff between officers and the demonstrators in front of police headquarters, a woman who later identified herself as Dragonfly, and who carried a sign reading "Don't Shoot," walked up to a middle-aged police officer and began talking to him.
Classes were cancelled at Covington Catholic High School on Tuesday as more details emerged about students' apparent standoff with an elderly Native American man in front of the Lincoln Memorial that's sparked days of controversy.
After a tense standoff, police officers wearing gas masks stood in a line in front of the convention center on 2nd Street and ordered the crowd to leave before moving forward with riot shields.
As a motorcyclist in front of them slowed, Mr. Lien hit him, prompting a brief standoff in the middle of the Henry Hudson Parkway.
The officer enters the store with the clerk and a standoff begins between the gun-toting robber — who has six women, customers and clerks in front of him — and the officer, who has five women behind him.
