Sentence examples for the first standoff from inspiring English sources

The first standoff came when the prime minister ordered a high treason trial of Pervez Musharraf, the former army chief who deposed Sharif in a 1999 coup.

The parade marches to a church at Drumcree, a tiny countryside parish, for a service in memory of Northern Ireland soldiers who died at the Battle of the Somme during World War I. Since the first standoff between security forces and protesters in 1995, Drumcree has become a rallying cry for unionists and loyalists, the militant Protestants who want Northern Ireland to remain part of Britain.

The first standoff at the entrance of the Cleveland shoreway.

Bundy's father, Cliven, was more than a million dollars in arrears before action was taken against him, last year, resulting in the first Bundy standoff.

The deal appeared to resolve the first major standoff since the midterm elections between the White House and newly empowered Republicans on Capitol Hill.

Instead, the issue of early retirement emerged as the unlikely battleground for the first major standoff between the governor and Republican legislators.

The situation at the market was unfolding at the same time a second standoff was taking place at a printing house in Dammartin-en-Goele, a small community near Charles de Gaulle International Airport.

"This was the first major hostage standoff of the cellphone age," Cullen notes.

Meanwhile, a second standoff with Shiites showed no signs of easing.

A second standoff began later on Thursday evening when police stopped and searched a Syrian man on suspicion of carrying a sharp object to cut fences.

During the first week of the standoff, things were fairly amicable between the militants and local authorities.