111.   The agreement defused a tense standoff between Serbs and French peacekeepers at a checkpoint on the road.

112.   The agreement defused a tense standoff between Serbs and French peacekeepers testing wills at a checkpoint on the road.

113.   The camp was surrounded by a five-deep cordon of police as a tense standoff started.

114.   The clashes came just hours after a tense standoff between Israeli troops and Samir Zakarneh, a senior figure in the Black Panthers in the nearby village of Qabatiya.

115.   The foreign ministers of India and Pakistan will come face to face in this Himalayan kingdom for the first time since a tense standoff between the nuclear neighbors.

116.   The confrontation resulted in a tense standoff in which both the French and Serbs held prisoners and part of the post.

117.   The decision could help ease a tense standoff between Britain and its EU partners.

118.   The decision could help ease the tense standoff between Britain and its EU partners.

119.   The infiltration has triggered a tense military standoff since December between the two South Asian rivals.

120.   The firing came as other leftists held a vocal demonstration that provoked a tense standoff with police.