Sentence examples for the standoff here from inspiring English sources

Both are due to meet Tuesday on the standoff here.

They ended up being trapped by the standoff here, which has lasted more than a week.

For their part, both Mr. Emanuel and Ms. Lewis insist that the standoff here is not about them at all, not about personality and not about some dueling match between two tough contenders.

From health care to education to the environment, the White House has showered projects and money on Florida, a state that holds special meaning for President Bush well beyond the 36-day electoral standoff here in 2000: not only is his brother governor, but the state is vital for the president's re-election prospects in 2004.

The standoff prevailing here since Mr. Ouattara won a presidential election in November, according to most of the international community, and Mr. Gbagbo refused to step aside has taken an increasingly violent turn.

There is a standoff here.

http://t.co/GiEBFtQbuS — Kareem Fahim (@kfahim) 3 Jul 13 Standoff here.

HILDALE, Utah, April 19 — Thousands of polygamists are engaged in a highly unusual standoff here over property taxes that could ultimately cost them their houses or thrust them into a mainstream America they fear and despise.

There is a new standoff here, with some residents opposed to a proposed development that could alter the character of this township of 12,000 people and change the face of the place as seen from the Circle Line and Manhattan's West Side.

In a sign of the seriousness of the standoff, the American Embassy here suspended diplomatic missions outside the Green Zone and throughout Iraq on Tuesday.

But with the United States and other nations having advised citizens to defer "nonessential travel" to Fiji during the standoff, they are here in only a fraction of their normal numbers.