In the first stand-off Gazprom accused Ukraine of siphoning off transit gas meant for the EU to serve its domestic needs, while in 2009 gas was cut off completely, leaving some EU markets without gas in the depth of winter.
The administration seems to have staked out a firmer position than during the first stand-off over the Bush-era tax cuts, in November and December of 2010, leaving the impression that it won't sign off on a compromise that doesn't increase the tax burden on the wealthy as a means of paying down the deficit.
Pioneer work towards this end include the first stand-off annotation format from the TIPSTER Common Architecture (16) and the abstract XML representation from the Architecture and Tools for Linguistic Analysis Systems, which incorporated annotation graphs (17).
Zemdegs was immediately surrounded by a scrum, while Valk, who came in second, stood off to the side.
I think he is going to be playing in a "second five-eighth" role as the New Zealanders call it, basically playing as a second stand-off.
The Drumcree march had a long history, having first been held in 1807 when the area was sparsely populated, but the first serious stand-off over the parade came in 1995.
The tube is democracy in action, a function of consent: people let the passengers off first, stand on the right, move down along the cars.
1.15pm: We now flit like a gadfly to the hallowed turf of Centre Court for the second-round stand-off between Andy Roddick and France's mercurial Michael Llodra.
With the involvement of U.S. ground forces ruled out, the Obama Administration appears to have settled on a version of the second option — stand-off strikes carried out from U.S. ships and, possibly, aircraft.
First, the stand-off gave the centre Joel Moon enough space to send Hall in at the corner, before then providing a sublime cut-out pass himself to help establish that 14-0 advantage.
Then, there is the question of who will blink first in the stand-off between the police and the Home Affairs Committee, chaired by Keith Vaz, over a secret list of firms that were allegedly involved with rogue private investigators convicted of "blagging" – illegally obtaining information such as bank details and phone numbers.
