Chris Faulkner, a US executive known as the "Frack Master" in his home country, said the standoff involving shale gas driller Cuadrillla in Balcombe this year had caused concern across the sector with widespread coverage of clashes between police and protesters.
Behind the team of international lawyers hired to find a way out of the standoff involving the UK, Sweden and a US administration determined to see Assange in court in America was the unassuming figure of Ratner and his hardworking team.
The pro-MEK campaign has taken on new prominence against the backdrop of the nuclear standoff involving the U.S., Israel and Iran, whose government is a sworn enemy of the MEK.
As Attorney General, Dosanjh oversaw the resolution of the Gustafsen Lake Standoff involving the Secwepemc Nation, set up a database for registering violent offenders, established a hate crime division in the Royal Canadian Mounted Police, and lobbied for more police officers, probation officers, and judiciary.
The dramatic standoff involving more than 40 probate judges in Alabama who are refusing to administer same-sex marriage has been intensified by a federal court that has ordered an official in Mobile to begin issuing licenses or face possible consequences.
The pipeline, which has been the cause of a months-long standoff involving the Standing Rock Sioux, their allies, the state government, and Energy Transfer Partners, Dakota Access's parent company, was slated to carry crude oil beneath Lake Oahe, the reservation's main source of drinking water.
Instead, though, the move seemed likely to inflame the already dangerous standoff involving a protest movement that has been unable to wrest freedoms from a government that opposition activists say is methodically blocking all avenues for dissent.
The N.I.E. was published in November, after a yearlong standoff involving Cheney's office, which resisted the report's findings.
