Sentence examples for the standoff of from inspiring English sources

Cars were lined up on both sides of the standoff of the stuck.

The government did not immediately move to take Elian, and the standoff of more than four months continued.

While deterrence remains the first line of defense against nuclear attack, the standoff of the cold war was born of a different time.

But the standoff of man and mouse is already turning up a lot of other questions that have little to do with rodent DNA, mouse habitat or the vicissitudes of the scientific method.

"While deterrence remains the first line of defense against nuclear attack, the standoff of the cold war was born of a different time," Mr. Bush said in a speech Tuesday at the National Press Club.

But Mr. Clinton is also likely to be recalled as the president who presided over -- some will say helped spark -- one of the greatest surges in prosperity and innovation in American history, and who helped make the transition from the standoff of the cold war to an era in which American influence was unchallenged.

He had come to pride himself on taking a "long view" of things, believing that a balance of power, rather than the standoffs of the Cold War, was the best way to insure international stability.

The Russian bombers were flying Friday over the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans and the North Pole, and were being escorted by NATO fighter jets, the site said, recalling the standoffs of the cold war.

With God on Our Side, a sweeping survey of American warfare from the genocide of the native population to the nuclear standoff of the cold war, is a radical revision of the authorised version of American history (decades before Howard Zinn).

Perhaps the tensest standoff of the convention occurred on Wednesday night when close to 100 people, some linking arms and wearing bandanna masks, approached a line of officers who had used bicycles to seal off North Tampa Street.

The standoff instrument of the present work is capable of emitting both wavelengths.