What is "standoff"

Usage examples of "standoff".

There should not be too fine a point, however, in belaboring differences with the other examples in this regard over standoff.

He was not fool enough to think that this one standoff would put Biggest to rest.

While the missile crews would fire from standoff positions five hundred meters outside the perimeter of the laager, the assault party would attack it head on and frontal, deliberately drawing fire while trying to flush the Hinds up into the air for the missile gunners to get a fair shot at them.

Qualified oddsmakers are giving the standoff a fifty-fifty chance of turning into open warfare before the Magefleet even shows up.

In making his argument for preemption in his June 2002 West Point speech and later in his official strategy document, Bush argued that deterrence--the threat of devastating retaliation that had kept the peace throughout the standoff with the Soviets during the Cold War--no longer could guarantee the peace.

Many supporters of deterrence against Iraq have taken this experience as conclusive that the terror inspired by nuclear weaponry is so overpowering that it trumps all other considerations and produces extremely conservative behavior that creates an uneasy, but durable, peace between the two sides of any nuclear standoff.

The most recent skirmish pitted wiry little Esperanza against Shirley, goddamning and screw-you-ing each other to a standoff, Elvira wedged between them laboring for peace.

The Iraqis were so unnerved that the IAEA had found this collection that they physically prevented the inspectors from leaving with the documents, leading to a four-day standoff in the parking lot of the facility until Iraq finally allowed the inspectors to photocopy the key documents and take them out.

For example, if Iraq were to acquire several thousand advanced surface-to-air missiles, standoff antiar-mor weapons, and highly accurate ground-attack missiles, it might be able to shut down many of the air bases in the GCC, fend off or shoot down whatever U.

The first EB-52 Megafortress battleship that would lead the attack carried longer-range standoff weapons, including four Russian Kh-27 antiradar missiles in the forward bomb bay, eight Kh-15 long-range inertially guided missiles on the rotary launcher in the aft bomb bay, four R-60 heat-seeking air-to-air missiles on each external pylon, and two FlightHawk unmanned combat aircraft on wing pylons-unfortunately, the FlightHawks did not carry any weapons of their own.

Because they had no standoff weapons-both of their Kh-27 antiradar missiles worked, but they had to expend both of them early on the inbound run because so few sites had been taken down by the first Megafortress-they were forced to zigzag in between the threat computer's guesstimate of each site's lethal radius.

The one way Iraq could make significant gains to its conventional military capabilities in the short run would be by acquiring large numbers of advanced standoff attack systems.

Ben and Crista Galli stood at the vortex of the two conflicts dividing Pandora: Flattery's handhold on their throats, and the Avata/Human standoff that kept it there.

The fortyyear-old U-2 used a new aerial camera, the CA-990, which could take high-resolution pictures from long standoff distances, but to get pictures of Davao, the U-2 had to fly as close as possible to the Mindanao coast-very close to the Chinese warships.

McLanahan touched the weapon icons at the bottom of the Super Multi Function Display, overrode the mission timing schedule of the computer that deconflicted weapon releases for the entire strike package, then commanded the two Standoff Land Attack Missiles to launch.