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He was threatening to immolate both of them when police ended a standoff by grabbing him.

The two countries were eyeball to eyeball in a tense standoff for almost a year.

Ex-MMA fighter Jason ‘Mayhem’ Miller live-tweeted a standoff with police over domestic violence charges.

Faced with this opponent, the United States has a variety of military options for using its aerial and standoff firepower.

We saw this during the recent standoff between Nevada rancher Cliven Bundy and federal officers.

There should not be too fine a point, however, in belaboring differences with the other examples in this regard over standoff.

It was a standoff, by my cooking and doing other camp duties and marketing our products.

My bosses they all like me, they say I am hard to beat; I give them the bold standoff, you bet I have got the cheek.

But the court will know that you have as much interest in lying as I have, and itll just be a standoff.

She was as plucky as any thing, and was putting up a great standoff when we got in our licks.