Sentence examples for strategic standoff from inspiring English sources
Attempts to consolidate the strategic standoff with a treaty limiting offensive weapons proved more difficult.
The start of Chinese missile patrols could further destabilise the already tense strategic standoff with the US in the South China Sea.
They have assumed the form of a pyramid with day-to-day economic, political, and quasi-military dealings throughout the world forming its base and the nuclear strategic standoff forming its apex.
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.
Amid the heightened tensions over the standoff, Iran has threatened to block the Strait of Hormuz, a strategic corridor for Western energy supplies.
The move nevertheless highlighted an unusual standoff between the administration and an Arab nation of great strategic importance in American efforts to promote Middle East peace and in any eventual confrontation with Iraq.
BEIRUT, Lebanon — A group of powerful rebel brigades in northern Syria is struggling to defuse an armed standoff pitting insurgents against an affiliate of Al Qaeda for control of a strategic town near the Turkish border.
The results proved a strategic blow to the ruling March 14 coalition, which has been locked with the opposition in a nine-month political standoff that has left much of the government at a standstill.
A political standoff erupted.
