Sentence examples for standoff occurs from inspiring English sources

A climactic standoff occurs in the Mexican desert (actually, New Mexico).

A standoff occurs, but as Chuck is backed up by a superior force made up of his friends, family, the C.A.T. Squad (Mini Andén and Mercedes Masöhn), and Volkoff's Spetsnaz paratroopers, Decker is forced to stand down.

"They're just going to go through the motions anyway, and then whatever ideas conservatives put out there are going to be blamed for whatever standoff" occurs, said Rep. Justin Amash (R-Mich).. "So let's just avoid the theater and move on".

That seven-week standoff occurred when Rick Wagoner, the current chief executive of G.M., was president of its North American operations.

He was speaking after 28 bodies were exhumed from clandestine graves near the city of Iguala where the standoff occurred; 22 officers are being held in connection with the incident.The last military ruler of Argentina, Reynaldo Bignone, received a 23-year jail sentence on top of the life term he is serving already.

"Let's be vigilant," Cervantes told reporters who were gathered a couple of miles from the site where the standoff occurred.

The confrontation between a group of isolated doomsday preppers in Idaho, and some overzealous federal agents didn't turn deadly until August of 1992, but the event used as the primary justification for the standoff occurred on April 18 , 1992

While the white Nevada-based cattle rancher preached his "ancestral rights" to evade federal police power and as journalists rushed to cover the event, a similar standoff had occurred in the same state two decades earlier without media coverage (or the armed mobs the Bundy standoff drew).

In the actual standoff, which occurred this past January and lasted 41 days, the protestors were white.

A less contentious standoff also occurred when settlers sent by William Penn sought to establish what is now Burlington, New Jersey.

In recent months, several tense standoffs have occurred at Metro stations around the city.