0 a situation in which agreement in an argument does not seem possible --
1 a situation in which neither side has won a competition or argument, or an occasion when someone prevents officials from acting, usually by threatening violence: --
2 a situation in which agreement in an argument does not seem possible: --
In the second group of data, the standoff distance was varied while the apex angle, the liner thickness, and the weight of the charge were maintained.
The circumstances of that standoff changed during the 1789/90 dry season, however, with significant consequences for leaders in all camps, whether rebels or customary elites.
Catalyst is a distributed architecture for the communication of standoff annotations among independent text processing components.
Standoff annotations refer to specific locations in the primary data, by addressing byte offsets, elements, etc., to which the annotation applies.
Furthermore, within a complex internal context, the standoff between the two major protagonists from 1990 remains critical.
In other words, in these cases, no second-order substantive principle is available to resolve the first-order standoff.
I see the standoff and conclude that neither view is reasonable.
Usually, more than two males were involved in the standoff resulting in a pile-up.