1.   Although the standoff Friday ensued because of a dispute over education, other issues are also standing in the way of a final spending agreement.

2.   An embarrassing standoff ensued, with the NATO forces deprived of their planned headquarters at the airport site.

3.   A brief standoff ensued and the demonstrators then set the coffin ablaze to protest being kept so far from the Chinese leader.

4.   A standoff ensued, one that in its own small way spoke to the asymmetry of the conflict in the city around it.

5.   A tense standoff ensues until Officer Krupke arrests the group for failing to obey his dispersal order.

6.   A standoff ensued when she insisted on receiving the purchase price.

7.   A tense standoff ensued, and for a few minutes it looked like the deal could die.

8.   Press reports from the time state that a six-hour standoff with police ensued, with Mary Rainey releasing the children after two hours.

9.   A standoff ensued.