Sentence examples for standoff in which from inspiring English sources

After a protracted standoff, in which hundreds of soldiers died, the Soviets took it.

He predicted a possible convention standoff in which "we'll have a real conversation about who can best beat Barack Obama".

Allen was apprehended after a car chase and a standoff in which he shot and wounded an officer.

Special forces units and police surrounded the building, leading to an hour-long standoff in which there was sporadic gunfire.

He and the Kremlin engaged in a fierce standoff, in which Berezovsky was condemned as the number-one enemy of Russia.

The Japanese release of the captain seemed aimed at defusing a heated standoff in which China had imposed economic sanctions and even detained four Japanese.

Seen in this light, trade negotiations are like one of those standoffs in which an armed gunman takes himself hostage.

These big battles are occasionally interrupted by standoffs in which Inspector Tequila is surrounded by a handful of mobsters and must dodge bullets (in slow motion, of course) while firing.

A close look at some cases shows that the inquiries have created murky standoffs in which the F.B.I. cannot prove that the detainees are dangerous and the detainees cannot allay the F.B.I.'s suspicions.

This may be one of those argumentative standoffs in which, as Brian Barry once remarked, one man's reductio ad absurdum is another's Quod Erat Demonstrandum.

Doxing has even resulted in death, either from the victim's suicide or from deadly standoffs in which armed SWAT teams were duped into responding to factitious emergencies.