Sentence examples for urban standoff from inspiring English sources
The Urban Standoff A few hours later, back in camouflage, Abdul Hakim Yasin led his fighters to Aleppo.
Typically in urban scenarios, to facilitate operational covertness large standoff distances maybe employed, which lead to large incident angles for most walls.
Studios realize that a standoff between films aimed at the same demographic -- kids, women, "urban" teenagers -- splits the vote, in effect, and hurts both films.
The challenges to its new leadership are clear: the need for financial reform; the perils of shadow banking and corruption; thick urban pollution; and, above all, the free flow of information, as seen in the standoff this month between a state censor in Guangzhou and journalists at the Southern Weekend and their supporters.
The standoff pits the mostly rural poor — who support Mr. Somchai and the government — against an established urban elite and middle class who feel threatened by the poor's rising political power.
A political standoff erupted.
