Standoffs in a sentence

He says the past few weeks in the capital have strengthened his resolve to push forward and no longer accept the status quo — or futile standoffs with police back home as the best way to change it.

In 2005, standoffs saw the two sides pitted against each other for hours at a time.

Judging by the history of debt ceiling standoffs, when we have divided government, we can expect a last-minute deal.

The Civilian Review and Complaints Commission is also conducting an investigation that will focus on police conduct at several resource industry standoffs in B.C. in the past two years, including the Argenta arrests.

Their standoffs are poignant but Johnson has a light comic touch, often at her own expense.

The landscape has changed from the last time we’ve had these standoffs.

What’s unique to the game is that while waiting for James to return with the medicine, you have a multi-stage combat encounter fighting alongside David, involving a few standoffs against multiple waves of infected and a climactic battle with a bloater.

In the preceding years, there had been standoffs and clashes as nationalists opposed the procession of an Orange parade down Garvaghy Road in Portadown.

Since April, 68 alleged criminals have been shot by police in standoffs.

Students have dug in at tent encampments at several high-profile American universities, with standoffs continuing between protesters and administrators at Harvard, the University of Pennsylvania, Yale and others.

Amanda Waller was one of the primary antagonists, leading to some particularly tense standoffs with Batman.

Amazon also released a trailer for Season 6B teasing epic battles, standoffs between brothers, and more than enough Viking lore to keep viewers on the edge of their seats.

But police, wary of violent standoffs in the 1990s with Indigenous groups, had so far been unwilling to forcefully remove the demonstrators.

Indeed, today’s geopolitical standoffs are making companies’ home countries relevant again; companies have a role to play in their home countries’ national security.

Toss in a limited and self-referential vocabulary of chases, explosions, standoffs and last-ditch rescues, and you get a cinematic language stuck in a tiresome case of diminishing returns.

But after a week of leaks, standoffs between Trump and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, blockbuster revelations and gambles by key power brokers, the facts of the case are beginning to emerge.

Salvini and other ministers have been investigated in the past for alleged kidnapping stemming from previous standoffs, but no charges have ever been brought.

Salvini’s resolve has seen previous similar standoffs end with disembarkation either ultimately taking place in Italy or elsewhere in Europe.

The warriors under Chief Joseph fought 13 engagements against the U.S. Army, many of which were standoffs.

I thought woodland standoffs ended like this.