Sentence examples for the standoff around from inspiring English sources

"The standoff around the DMZ has the potential to endanger global peace.

The standoff began around noon on Monday when Mr. Watson drove a jeep pulling a tractor on a trailer over the sidewalk on Constitution Avenue and into the small pond.

It also does not reflect the continuing standoff around the contested region of Abyei, a conflict-ridden dividing line between north and south Sudan.

The standoff began around sundown Nov. 20 and continued past 4 a.m. the next day.

Selina Win Pe told the coronial inquest into the December 2014 standoff that around 2am Monis had rushed "in a panic" from the view of police snipers after discovering six more hostages had fled the cafe.

As a result of this standoff, around three million households in New York, New Jersey and Connecticut have lost access to that package of 130 Yankees games.

Local coverage of the incident included a photo montage of the standoff: pictures of police officers standing around by the apartment building, the blurry naked guy in the window, SWAT team officers in full body armor, an MRAP parked on Farwell... Huh?

12.33am BST WBZ-Boston reports that law enforcement is in the process of evacuating civilians from the area around the standoff in Watertown.

Current practice for protecting buildings against such attacks is to combine measures that strengthen the building and its facade with a standoff around the building (Ettouney et al. 1996).

Around the city, the standoff between Mr. Emanuel and Ms. Lewis has become a point of conversation, with some suggesting that the sheer size of the personalities involved had exacerbated the substantive divide over issues like teacher evaluations, the rehiring of laid-off teachers to new jobs and pay.

Chanting students and heavily armed vigilantes remained in a tense standoff around the main student dormitories of Tehran University tonight after the government unexpectedly put the blame for five nights of escalating clashes on shadowy paramilitary forces that have long been the favored means of squelching dissent here.