Sentence examples for uncomfortable standoff from inspiring English sources
That will likely cause a degree of chaos and an uncomfortable standoff between her and the new chief justice appointed by President Duda.
The standoff has created an uncomfortable situation for President Uribe, who has aggressively advanced Washington's antidrug agenda in Colombia and has withstood severe criticism at home for his support for ousting Saddam Hussein.
Appearing uncomfortable with the focus on the nuclear standoff, Liu suggested that reporters here were paying too much attention to Iran and not enough to festivities marking the Shanghai Cooperation Organization's fifth anniversary.
Little more than a week later, however, the fighters exiled to Gaza and 13 more who were sent abroad in the deal that ended the long standoff at the church are becoming uncomfortable symbols for many Palestinians of their government's capitulation to Israeli and foreign pressure.
Although opposition activists are getting their messages out of Bahrain through the Web, the standoff is a reminder, on the eve of a presidential debate in the United States, of uncomfortable questions about American support for Bahrain's monarchy in a region where entrenched autocracies are under threat from popular uprisings.
The standoff continues today.
A political standoff erupted.
