Sentence examples for standoff over control from inspiring English sources
But the typhoon struck hardest at the country China considers its biggest nemesis in the legal, diplomatic and sometimes military standoff over control of tiny but strategic islands in the South China Sea.
But first we visit the first struggle over the fate of Crimea -- waged for much the same stakes as the current NATO Russian standoff over control of access to the Black Sea and the minerals of Central Asia.
The tribe said the state could not inspect or repair a bridge that carries the highway over a creek on the reservation without receiving tribal authorization, creating a standoff over who controls the land the highway was built on.
His caution may also be a response to pressure from the United States, which has warned Japan, its largest Asian ally, not to escalate an already tense standoff with China over control of uninhabited islands in the East China Sea.
The Federal Bureau of Investigation said that no shots had been fired and that negotiations were continuing to end the 41-day standoff over federal land control in the western United States.
[C3.] Yukos and Russia Still in Standoff The Russian oil giant Yukos and the government continued a standoff over the fate of a controlling stake in the company.
Japan has been locked in increasingly emotional standoffs not only with China, but also with South Korea and Russia over control of remote islands southwest, northwest and northeast of the principal Japanese islands.
Utah lawmakers are setting aside millions of dollars for a legal showdown with the federal government over control of public lands in a fight fueled by the same rightwing activism that inspired an armed standoff in Oregon.
When the standoff was over, the owners had won new controls on salaries.
His reversal on Monday appeared to end a nine-month standoff over the United States' effort to extradite Christopher Coke, who prosecutors accuse of controlling a band of gunmen in a west Kingston neighborhood that Mr. Golding represents in Parliament.
