Sentence examples for terrible standoff from inspiring English sources

Although the Battle of the Marne was a classic battle of maneuver, the Western Front that emerged in its wake in northern France was the largest and most terrible standoff in history.

George F. Kennan, who is now ninety-eight years old, coined the phrase "containment," and with it the doctrine of deterrence designed to keep the world's superpowers poised in a perpetual standoff, relegated to their separate spheres of influence, forced into peace by the threat of a nuclear war too terrible to win.

Standoff ends.

With a standoff.

A standoff begins.

A political standoff erupted.

No standoff.

That standoff persists.

A standoff ensued.

A standoff in goal?

Terrible, terrible, terrible.