Sentence examples for violent standoffs from inspiring English sources

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.

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.

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.

As CODESA continued, the negotiations stalled, threatened at one point by a violent standoff, between police and a group of apartheid extremists, at the entrance of the building where the talks were in session.

The suicide of the other monk, Phuntsog, at the Kirti Monastery, in a nearby prefecture in Sichuan, set off a violent standoff between local residents and paramilitary police, who eventually detained 300 monks.