Sentence examples for standoff shows from inspiring English sources

The Senate standoff shows there can be no finessing the issue by the White House.

The standoff shows just how much is at stake for the new administration as it attempts to establish its authority here at a time when it needs every Republican vote in an evenly divided Senate.

Video of the October 2006 standoff showed armed men, believed to be policemen in plain clothes or government agents, firing into the crowd.

Samuel Issacharoff, a professor at New York University Law School, said the standoff showed the limitations of the legal system in dealing with the prison set up seven years ago on the naval base in Cuba, partly to be remain clear of American courts.

Locals who had been hunting for generations, and relied on the seal trade for their survival, felt threatened by Greenpeace, and in a tense standoff shown in the film, Bob Hunter is forced to give up the dye.

What started as a dramatic and dangerous confrontation has settled into an at times surreal standoff that shows little sign of ending soon.

But the officials seemed very uncertain about when the standoff, which showed promise of ending last weekend, would be over.

The standoff was shown from a third angle in a video report broadcast just after noon local time by the Shanghai-based Chinese satellite channel Dragon TV.

She said the standoff had shown her that the government had "a complete lack of respect for people who work for a living", and that set it apart even from Margaret Thatcher's administration.

"This was the Miami bench during this last timeout," ESPN announcer Mike Breen explained as a replay of the sideline standoff was shown following a commercial break.

As the standoff unfolds, Fugard shows us how Hal, by asserting his superiority, forces that shame out of himself and into Sam.