1.   A confrontation with police officers escalated into an armed standoff after group members refused to leave the building.

2.   All three governments have done just about everything anyone can think of to end the armed standoff in the North.

3.   Crude oil rose after Iraq stood by threats to expel U.S. members of a U.N. inspection team, heightening the possibility of an armed standoff.

4.   Early the next morning, an emergency services police unit captured Johnson inside a West Brighton Houses apartment after an armed standoff.

5.   It has dealt this year with the national notoriety of the Republic of Texas separatists who staged an armed standoff with law enforcement officers in the Davis Mountains.

6.   Not that anyone was laughing last Sunday morning during the armed standoff between the Milosevics and the democratic government that ousted them.

7.   The government also has ignored the high-profile armed standoff between two factions of directors vying for control of the Krystall vodka factory in Moscow.

8.   The show of force that was visible on the street was of proportions usually seen only during armed standoffs or after a police officer has been shot.

9.   There were reports Tuesday of armed standoffs and military engagements in Battambang, Banteay Meancheay and Siem Reap, near the ancient Angkor Wat temple complex.

10.   This has given the town associated with cults and armed standoffs a second wind.