Sentence examples for violent standoff from inspiring English sources

Every night, protesters march and clashes erupt, in a violent standoff that often seems a breath away from an explosion.

Early Friday morning, one of the two suspects was killed in a violent standoff with the police in Watertown, Mass.

A violent standoff last week between migrants and right-wing Germans became the latest sign of rising tensions.

The two officers who died were killed during the violent standoff with police, whom militants met with gunfire and grenades.

But all those risks may be mitigated by the prestige of being asked to defuse a violent standoff on behalf of world powers.

Thursday's march, which was joined by trade unionists, ended in a violent standoff with police, who fired tear gas at the protesters.

While we Venezuelans are going hungry, there have been violent standoffs over humanitarian aid piling up at the borders with Colombia and Brazil.

Chanting anti-American slogans calling for an end to NATO's presence, the protesters also vented broader fury, storming offices of the Afghan government and the United Nations, leading to violent standoffs.

It has been the scene of violent standoffs every summer when the black-suited "brethren" in their bowler hats and orange sashes have tried to take their parade commemorating centuries-old Protestant triumphs from Drumcree Church along a road that wends through Catholic neighborhoods.

The continuing siege in Oregon by heavily armed members of the Bundy family – ostensibly prompted not by gun control but the far less inflammatory issue of federal land ownership – would surely prove to be only a mild foretaste of the violent standoffs to come.

The tribe has made that history a central theme during months of protests and sometimes violent standoffs with law enforcement.