Sentence examples for standoff permits from inspiring English sources

But while the deal, which heads off a potentially nasty legal standoff, permits the recording companies to sell music over the Internet, the sides have still to determine royalties to be paid.

That standoff persists.

On Tuesday, the Interior Department resolved a two-year standoff with the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission on which department has authority to issue offshore wind permits.

Standoff ends.

No standoff.

A political standoff erupted.

With a standoff.

A standoff begins.

A standoff ensued.

A standoff in goal?

Jerry Maurice Thomas, a permit holder since 2009 whose drinking problems were well known to the authorities, held a gun to his girlfriend's head at his house in Asheville last year, prompting a standoff with the police.