But now two things are putting that standoff under strain, exposing glimpses of the internal reckoning to come.
In those elections, both presidential candidates have spoken of increased engagement with the North, after a prolonged and tense standoff under South Korea's outgoing president, Lee Myung-bak.South Korea and Japan, which is also in the midst of an election campaign in which regional security is a serious issue, swiftly condemned the launch.
While the current standoff may be under control, more are likely to occur, especially as our allies turn to us for protection — something we may see at next week's meeting between the United States and the Philippines in Washington.
James renders it as an almost cartoonish standoff: "Dad stood under a sign that said what do you mean he needs help, and Mum waved a banner that said i'm not sure but we've got to do something".
Four years after her county became the red-hot center of the 2000 presidential election standoff, she is under just about as much stress and scrutiny as she was back then, when camera crews from as far away as Japan camped at her office and she surrendered to emotional exhaustion and teared up in public.
A volatile postelection standoff may be getting under way here, of the type seen recently elsewhere on the continent.
The last such standoff in Minnesota came under an entirely different set of leaders (including Tim Pawlenty, the former governor turned Republican presidential candidate) in 2005, but involved the shutdown of far fewer services and lasted a matter of days.
Mr. Chiang's office may begin writing checks as early as Friday, a spokeswoman said, beginning with $3.6 billion in Medicaid payments to hospitals, nursing homes and other health care providers that had been held up under the standoff.
She did something similar here, on songs like "The Bed," about a domestic standoff with the monsters under the box spring, and "Just the Same But Brand New," for which she got an ethereal vocal assist from Justin Vernon, the singer-songwriter otherwise known as Bon Iver.
Surreal standoff ends with Chris Brown under arrest, but the R&B singer says he's the victim.
Assuming that the incident angle, the polarization mode, and the standoff distance are all fixed, under this situation, h f (t) can be considered to be only related to the permittivity of the wall since the wall can be viewed as a dielectric slab and, its permittivity can be considered constant within the bandwidth of the signal [27].
