| Today the Senate Democratic leader told me the White House seems to be waffling when it comes to the North Korea standoff. |
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| The standoff can provide a vent to prevent pressure in the gap from causing distortion or damage. |
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| Vehicle teleoperation is being developed for this system to gain standoff between soldiers and mine locations. |
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| The letter appears to contradict Russian claims that the Chechens made no proper demands to end the standoff. |
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| The downward move came as fears eased that the hostage standoff could spiral out of control. |
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| A Dorchester man and two codefendants were held on bail yesterday in an alleged armed robbery and hostage standoff Sunday on Wales Street. |
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| Maintaining weapons standoff and preventing enemy infantry from closing with the defending unit can overcome a lack of infantry support. |
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| What followed was a kind of very tense standoff where gunshots were fired for about five minutes. |
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| A boatload of refugees rescued from their sinking vessel at sea has finally been allowed to land, after a two week standoff. |
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| The fraught standoff in the Ukraine is less the result of an internal dispute, than of a geopolitical tussle between East and West. |
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| The standoff distance between the hydrophone and polystyrene plate was 0.5 mm for the excimer and ruby lasers. |
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| Anxiety is mounting that the strike and political standoff in Venezuela could send economic shock waves throughout the region. |
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| Raimondo interrupts the standoff, reminding them of God's law that he who lives by the sword dies by the sword. |
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| An angry standoff ensued, until police unleashed their attack dogs, injuring several workers. |
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| To some extent, this reflected a standoff or even a temporary modus vivendi between the antagonists. |
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| To label as combative this epic standoff from this morning's show would be to understate the man's pugilistic expertise. |
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| Soon, however, that report was shot down, and the standoff, pitting a renegade cleric against the powers that be, was right back where it began. |
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| Both of them think that the other is in the wrong, so it ends in a cold standoff. |
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| After a six-hour standoff, Spanish special forces rappelled from a helicopter onto the moving deck while snipers stood by. |
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| The cause of the standoff was ASEAN's decision to admit Myanmar to the group three years ago. |
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| After an incredibly suspenseful standoff, the marksmen take out the pirates in the lifeboat, saving Phillips. |
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| Howard initiated the Tampa standoff without a clear exit strategy. |
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| The standoff has threatened to break apart the country, independent for just 13 years and lying between an expanded EU and its centuries-long master, Russia. |
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| One second, the two were frozen in a standoff, Thunder straining at the leash. |
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| But caving in the current standoff could cost Boehner his speakership anyway. |
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| The standoff was mostly peaceful, but police officers at one point scuffled with a protestor who tried to push back their barriers. |
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| How momentous can a standoff over Nessa's tendency to overindulge in shoes and bags really become? |
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| The two countries were eyeball to eyeball in a tense standoff for almost a year. |
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| The paralyzing standoff between the two major American parties was dramatized by the idiocies of the debt-ceiling debate. |
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| He was threatening to immolate both of them when police ended a standoff by grabbing him. |
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| The standoff at a home in Norwich ended after 32 hours of negotiations, according to the Norfolk constabulary. |
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| I do not want to go back into a situation we have seen before, a standoff between countries. |
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| What is not needed is the kind of standoff that we are debating here this evening. |
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| Further driving up oil prices was general instability in the Middle East, especially the continuing standoff with Iran over its nuclear program. |
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| Tibetan autonomy need not be seen in terms of a politicized standoff between different perspectives of sovereignty. |
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| Secondly, RMA provides an ability for the major military powers to use such potential in standoff or stealth weapons platforms. |
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| Has it opened up new avenues for finding a peaceful resolution to the India-Pakistan standoff, and to the conflict over Kashmir? |
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| The crisis is yet to be resolved, however, and the standoff that paralyses Lebanon continues. |
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| The Oka standoff highlighted another problem with the reporting of Native issues. |
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| We saw this during the recent standoff between Nevada rancher Cliven Bundy and federal officers. |
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| A major political standoff was only adverted when a bipartisan group of senators known as the Gang of 14 negotiated a compromise. |
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| Emboldened radicals attacking an Algerian gas plant in a days-long standoff leaving dozens dead. |
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| Faced with this opponent, the United States has a variety of military options for using its aerial and standoff firepower. |
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| The standoff was finally brought to an end when the father convinced his son to give up and surrender peacefully. |
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| Merkley said that the power of minority to obstruct judicial nominations had really been ended in that standoff. |
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| Other causes to which he was attracted were those of the Lil'Wat Nation and the Shuswap activists involved in the armed standoff at Gustafsen Lake. |
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| Instead we tag along with this charmless duo from one tense standoff to another, learning too little about the characters to give gravity to the tragic ending that awaits. |
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| It can be fired as a long-range standoff missile, or its all-aspect passive radar homing seeker can be used to detect and attack targets of opportunity. |
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| It was seen as perpetuating a mutually reinforcing standoff between two bad things: the heartlessness of the capitalist north, and the authoritarian secularism of the socialist south. |
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| In October, Freeman carried out a protest by standing on a Winston Churchill statue in Parliament Square in London in a 28-hour standoff with police. |
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| Rolf, Greenpeace and Kimberly-Clark were at a standoff for years. |
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| If the U. S. takes any military measures against North Korea on the ground of thwarting its proliferation of WMD or human rights abuses, Seoul would have no choice but to get pulled into their military standoff or a war. |
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| A standoff ensued between those loyal to Damascus, supporting Mr. Karami's Government, and those broadly opposed to what they saw as excessive Syrian influence and presence in Lebanon. |
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| Two people are dead after a gunman killed himself and another man early Friday morning, spurring a police standoff in a Los Angeles neighborhood. |
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| Rick Perry-issued deadline in a long-running standoff over Bill White's tax returns. |
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| It nevertheless regrets the long standoff in negotiations since the agreement was signed and hopes that an agreement satisfactory to all parties can be reached soon. |
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| The standoff looked set to continue into the weekend as the latest round of talks between local, regional and protest leaders ended on Monday afternoon without agreement. |
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| A group of squatters vowed to take their high-stakes standoff with the police and bailiffs into Christmas Day after protestors scaled the balcony of a five-story Victorian building in central London. |
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| It is not a standoff issue or a let it go by itself. |
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| After all, the Solomon's wisdom Korea needs is how to keep the American alliance, while reducing the tension in East Asia at the same time, including North Koreas nuke standoff, at the least cost. |
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| After the June 13 explosion, we had to rebuild the front gate and wall and we've provided a much larger standoff area to mitigate against it happening again. |
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| The Commendation was to recognize MCpl Blondeau's actions during an Oct 2001 armed standoff at CFB Wainwright while he was posted there as a patrolman. |
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| Far from bolstering stability, Saudi policy actively works against western attempts to end the standoff with non-Arab Iran – still the natural regional partner for London and Washington that it was before the 1979 revolution. |
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| Berlin Technologies, for example, was showcasing its Second Sight MS standoff real-time infrared bolometer gas cloud detector. |
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| As the sun rose Sunday, the standoff between Kenyan forces and the attackers continued. |
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| Police in Los Angeles entered a six-hour standoff with a man dressed as Tony Montana in a scene which could have been taken from Scarface. |
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| Even if you usually rub along peacefully, you could find yourselves having a standoff or a full on row. |
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| There is an explosive irony, in fact, at the center of this standoff. |
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| Relations were in a brief deadlock due to a naval standoff in 2008 over disputed maritime territory. |
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| If her standoff with Ms Corbett was problematic, it was a dysfunction of her own making which could not properly be mustered for a self-serving attack on the appeal process generally. |
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| Skinner said the standoff over the seat was the reason why he was too tired to think up his usual heckle when Black Rod enters the chamber to summon MPs to the Lords for the Queen's speech. |
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| It is arguable that stopping a train immediately before a crossing creates a standoff between the train and road vehicles at the crossing that in itself can compromise safety. |
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| The enduring standoff also demonstrates that Lebanon is in need of a comprehensive and, most importantly, consensual political framework, as manifested in the Taif Agreement. |
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| I don't want to get involved in the standoff between those two. |
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| A tense standoff between demonstrators and police continued overnight. |
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| The two governments are currently in a standoff over who has rights to the land. |
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| The standoff figured prominently at the Mercosur bloc's meeting in Caracas on Tuesday, with heads of state castigating the holdouts as speculators menacing the entire region. |
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| With Bev thinking her man popped-off after a quick pre-wedding game of hide the sausage with Miss Popoff, an angry standoff now looms over Weatherfield. |
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| In the early 1800s, Russia established a settlement here, proceeding to battle the local Tlingits to a standoff but utterly routing the sea-otter population. |
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