standoff

Is he planning on an armed standoff with state police?

An hours-long standoff ensued before the man was taken into custody on suspicion of trespassing, he said.

More volatile than anything else, Schickler said, could be the standoff over immigration.

The standoff between Blanche’s impractical aestheticism and Stanley’s ruthless pragmatism is the heart of this quintessentially American drama.

When Samoa's rugby league team performed a traditional war dance, the Siva Tau, before their first Test against England last Sunday, the players became involved in an intense standoff.