Sentence examples for standoff today from inspiring English sources

Venezuelan National Guard troops and angry supporters of President Hugo Chávez engaged in a tense standoff today in front of City Hall in Caracas.

Israel and the United Nations remained locked in a standoff today, with the fate of a fact-finding mission into the Israeli attack on the Jenin refugee camp still stalled in Geneva.

Ethnic Albanian gunmen and Macedonian police forces remained in a tense standoff today around several villages in western Macedonia, once more threatening the tortuous and much delayed peace process just before a final parliamentary vote on Thursday.

A return to a nuclear standoff today would be a devastating development for international peace and security.

One person was shot during a home invasion in Belleville, Ill., led to a chase and a standoff early Saturday.

This year's 10 finalists travel to New York to compete in various comedy challenges before the standup standoff next month.

In particular, Maulana Rehman broke with the militants in their standoff last summer with government forces at the Red Mosque in Islamabad.

And US Airways averted a labor standoff this month when a union representing flight attendants voted to adopt a new contract.

Suggested recent cases include: "Unabomber" Theodore Kaczynski (1996); Oklahoma City bomber Timothy McVeigh (1995); David Koresh and the Waco, Texas Branch Davidians (1993); and Randy Weaver and the Ruby Ridge, Idaho standoff (1992).

So for the moment, though he tried and failed to negotiate a resolution to the standoff this weekend, Mr. Fox appears to have chosen talks over troops.

When Standard & Poor's lowered the nation's credit rating, it was in large part because of the standoff last year over raising the debt ceiling — which had to be raised to pay for spending Congress had already approved.