Indeed, in the streets outside those offices and law firms, there were several tense standoffs.

For a long moment there was a tense standoff.

This all turns out to be related to the two men's assignment in the present, and it leads to a tense standoff.

After a tense standoff, the binder was eventually returned to her.

A number of previous predictions in the tense political standoff, based on similar reports, have not proved accurate.

The captain and first officer regarded each other in a tense standoff for several seconds.

It didn't take much imagination to guess what had sparked this current tense standoff.

After a tense Mexican standoff, they declare their intent to keep the girls.

One of them, dressed as Batman setting off a security alert and a tense standoff with the police.

For hours afterward, police conducted a tense standoff, captured on nationwide television.