Sentence examples for standoff of from inspiring English sources

But a standoff of sorts has emerged.

After a standoff of several seconds.

Cars were lined up on both sides of the standoff of the stuck.

After Mr. Harper did not respond, there was a standoff of close to two hours.

I asked Terry to fight and there was a standoff of about a week.

"This was the first major hostage standoff of the cellphone age," Cullen notes.

It was a curious kind of standoff: hundreds of protesters, with an audience of dozens of reporters, refusing to speak.

The parametric analysis of the hybrid heat sink was performed by forming two dimensionless variables, i.e., ratios of standoff (distance of nozzle exit to impingement surface) to jet diameter and jet pitch to jet diameter.

In the face of this standoff, one of the Puerto Rico's top officials accused the protesters today of acting irresponsibly.

The U.S. Embassy in Cuba reopened with a flag-raising ceremony earlier today, fifty-four yeafterfthe thEmbassysy closed in one of the angriest standoffs of the Cold War.

He had come to pride himself on taking a "long view" of things, believing that a balance of power, rather than the standoffs of the Cold War, was the best way to insure international stability.