Sentence examples similar to this stand off between from inspiring English sources

This stand-off between adults, eyeing each other with suspicion as potential threats to children, dangerously threatens the sense of adult solidarity and partnership that's so necessary to socialising and indeed protecting children.

"This stand-off between Greece and the eurozone is increasing the risks every day to the British economy," the chancellor said.

This led to a stand off between my parents and I. Homecoming was around the corner, and I just didn't understand why my date was expected to pay for my dinner, ticket and bus ride to the dance.

So we have a stand off between the businesses and the jobless.

At the heart of the debate there is a stand off between two opposing and seemingly irreconcilable views regarding blasphemy.

Things had since calmed down a bit, and there was an edgy stand off between the two groups.

It's an argument that rages even in this raunch-cultured world where the stand-off between art and porn is yet to reach an agreement.

In Wales, the talk was of how all this could be jeopardised by plunging Chinese stock markets, the stand-off between Saudi Arabia and Iran, and by the recessions in Russia and Brazil.

This was a clever parallel because of a similarity in the stand-off between an entrenched upper-class and a restless proletariat in those places at those times.

The first is that the stand-off between Cyprus and Germany proves impossible to resolve.

AMY DAVIDSON: You call the stand-off between India and Pakistan in 2002 "the first nuclear crisis of the twenty-first century".