Sentence examples for to the current standoff from inspiring English sources
A series of political decisions led to the current standoff.
A solution to the current standoff that is too seldom mentioned is a nuclear-free Middle East.
The optimal solution to the current standoff would be for the Legislature to turn the whole question of vendors' licenses back to the city.
A series of political decisions, cascading down through the years in much the way the power failure cascaded through the electric grid last week, led to the current standoff.
On his last trip here, during the summer, Secretary Powell himself may have contributed to the current standoff by setting conditions -- seven days of quiet -- for a return to the negotiating table, saying it was up to Mr. Sharon to determine when those conditions had been met.
Gov. Bruce Rauner recently has said the $5 billion unbalanced budget passed by Democrats last year not only was unconstitutional, but that it also has led to the current standoff in Springfield.
Political analysts trying to explain the current standoff in Washington are quick to point to redistricting as helping to foster ideological extremism in Congress.
One of the issues confronting those Democrats who have fled to Illinois is to what extent they can enter into good-faith negotiations to end the current standoff, either by putting a sunset provision on eliminating collective bargaining rights for public sector unions or by eliminating the issue altogether.
The leader of Iran's reformist movement, Mohammad Khatami, has urged the west to show courage and work with President Hassan Rouhani or risk losing an unprecedented opportunity to end the current standoff.
With Robert Kagan, the historian and foreign policy expert, he reverse-engineered America's relationship with Iran, searching for opportunities to avert the current standoff over its nuclear program through diplomacy, alliances and economics.
It's not the doubts themselves so much as the airing of them in U.S. cables that might complicate any diplomatic efforts to defuse the current standoff.
