standoff

Sarah Binder, a political scientist at the Brookings Institution, told Sargent that the Senate could push back and quickly call itself back into session and force a standoff with the new administration.

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.

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.