Sentence examples for the ongoing standoff from inspiring English sources

I asked Abdulrahman what he thought about the ongoing standoff between Iran and the United States.

On this side of the Atlantic, however, the ongoing standoff between Washington and Havana served to obscure this reality for more than two decades.

The charges include conspiracy to interfere with a federal officer, the same charge lodged against two of Bundy's sons, Ammon and Ryan, for their role in the ongoing standoff at the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge.

The Games opened with a spectacular ceremony and a full complement of 45 competing nations after Ukraine decided its athletes would remain in Sochi despite the ongoing standoff with Russia.

Any prudent financial firm is assigning its operational risk management team to think the unthinkable: "What happens if the United States Treasury defaults on its debt?" This is just part of the waste and worry created by the ongoing standoff on the budget and the failure to raise the debt ceiling.

The first guest speaker was Tim Goeglein, a thin, bow-tied White House official, who talked about the ongoing standoff on Capitol Hill, where Senate Democrats were blocking the approval of some Republican nominees, including half a dozen conservative judges and John Bolton, the ambassador-designate to the United Nations.

So it turned into this ongoing standoff between Irabu and the Japanese news media.

Dover has been the scene of an ongoing standoff between anti-fascists and rightwing groups led by a resurgent National Front, according to Duncan Cahill of Hope Not Hate, an anti-racist organisation.

Pakistan's request is an overtly political move in the context of an ongoing standoff with Afghanistan, which has long accused Pakistan of maintaining militant safe havens from where the Afghan Taliban are said to launch attacks against Afghan and U.S. forces.

Because of an ongoing standoff between Congress and the White House, the commission lacks the quorum it needs to make such decisions.

Strikes have continued at French oil refineries as part of an ongoing standoff with the government over labour reforms, as footage emerged apparently showing a middle-aged woman being pushed to the ground by a policeman.