A famous standoff took place there when boats arrived from each direction, and neither captain would back off.

VOA: standard.2010.04.29

But the standoff between Milton and Shakespeare, much like the standoff between Comus and the Lady, is not as easily resolved as it might seem to be.

但弥尔顿和莎士比亚之间的对峙，更像Comus和小姐之间的对峙，是不易解决的，因为它看起来如此。

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The Brazilian leader said he told Mr.Zelaya not to give the interim government a pretext to resort to violence in the standoff.

VOA: standard.2009.09.22

The announcement appears to indicate that Pakistan's powerful military, which has intervened in political crises before, is backing the government in the current standoff.

VOA: standard.2009.03.14

French President Nicholas Sarkozy urged Mr.Assad, during a conference in France last July, to use his influence to help resolve Iran's nuclear standoff with the West.

VOA: standard.2009.03.18

After a standoff, troops stormed inside and killed the wanted men.

VOA: standard.2009.12.26

Interim Kyrgyz leader Roza Otunbayeva says her government is willing to negotiate his departure from the country and wants to resolve the standoff without any more harm to innocent civilians.

VOA: standard.2010.04.12

In one televised interview with a Pakistani network, he called the present conflict an extension of the 2007 standoff between former president Pervez Musharraf and supreme court justices who threatened to invalidate his presidency.

VOA: standard.2009.03.13

Two black farm workers have been arrested. Police were obliged to erect razor wire between blacks and whites during a tense standoff Tuesday outside the courthouse where the two suspects were charged with murder.

VOA: standard.2010.04.08

Speaking to reporters with Irish Foreign Minister Michael Martin, Clinton said Pakistani leaders did not need her to tell them what was at stake in the political standoff, and that its resolution is a hopeful sign for the future.

VOA: standard.2009.03.16

But in a press appearance here, she said the resolution of the standoff - with the reinstatement of the country's deposed Supreme Court Chief Justice Iftikhar Mohammed Chaudhry - was a resolution by the Pakistanis themselves and a hopeful first step toward broader dialogue.

VOA: standard.2009.03.16