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But late last night there was a stand-off as officers moved to start to break up the climate camp that had been set up.

It was almost as if the Italian police had a private agreement with the Roma fans to stand off them and let them wreak havoc.

Scott Snyder, a Korea expert at the Asia Foundation, said the stand-off was the most serious in years.

Dig a bit deeper, however, and the stand-off between the different advocates in this debate is not as substantial as it first appears.

An electric guitar and bass player stand off to one side, not really part of the scene, just as a sort of nod to gringo expectation perhaps.

After an hours-long stand-off, the Japanese officials forced the boat to dock at a nearby Japanese island.

Four of the demolition crew were killed in a stand-off with residents who refused to leave.

Far from putting the dispute to one side, as Deng urged, China is escalating it into a full-blown diplomatic stand-off.

France has hundreds of soldiers in the country in a peacekeeping operation, who were sucked into a bloody stand-off a few years ago.

in his latest attempt to push for a resolution to the stand-off in Georgia, where Russian forces remain.

But as the stand-off wore on, armed police approached the coach and began to smash windows and the glass front door.

My sister dislikes parties and tends to stand off (from everyone) if she does attend one.

Last weekend's meetings of the International Monetary Fund in Washington descended into a stand-off over exchange rates.

Google faced a stand-off with Hamburg privacy authorities last week over whether it would be legal to hand over the rogue data.

But making Mr Dahlan a scapegoat would give Hamas an easy way out of the stand-off, and Fatah has decided not to give it one.

Battery over- voltage sensing allows the IC to stand-off up to 50 V , allowing the chip to meet automotive IC load- dump requirements .

However, long-standing differences in ideology between the Western powers and the communist USSR soon led to a stand-off.

Earlier this year, five Chinese vessels were involved in a stand-off with a survey ship from the US navy off China's Hainan Island.

The uneasy stand-off between the main players was a repetition of February's meeting of G20 finance ministers and central bank governors.

Only minutes before Lincoln Burrows' execution, Bellick and Pope stand off to the side as two C. O. s strap Lincoln into the chair.

For President Obama, a stand-off in the South China Sea between an American naval ship and five Chinese vessels is not such an emergency.

America and Russia still maintain a stand-off between them.

North Korea has long demanded direct talks with the US, saying they were the only way to end resolve the nuclear stand-off.

Thai security forces and anti-government protesters remained in a stand-off in Bangkok after clashes overnight in which one person died.

Yet, within the region as much as in western capitals, a prolonged stand-off in Syria could have alarming consequences.

A ranging algorithm of multi-frequency pulse ranging applied in the long stand-off distance fuze was proposed.

The Maoists and the government have been frozen in a stand-off for months, though public demonstrations had been mainly peaceful.

And tell them not to lean on the handrails, which can slow down the escalator and may make other people stand off balance.

After a stand-off, the state governors backed down, and the plants opened three years later.

analyzing to a stand off missile ' s flight characteristics , the as missile trajectory simulation is completed.

Despite hopes that negotiations might bring the stand-off to a peaceful conclusion, tensions escalated as night closed in.

Even so, a deal would be far better than continued stand-off.

who saw the post-cold-war future as a stand-off between half a dozen geopolitical blocks, defined in religious as well as ethnic terms.

The 12-hour stand-off climaxed late Monday when the bus driver escaped through a window and Mendoza opened fire on his remaining hostages.

The errors of the stand-off measurement and measurement errors made by pitch diameter gauge and ovality gauge are analyzed and compared.

Elsewhere, Brazilia has teamed up with Ankara in an effort to mediate in the stand-off about Iran's nuclear ambitions.

Figure 2-14 shows how the guard can eliminate the leakage current that may flow through the stand-off insulators in a test fixture.

Despite the stand-off by the teams and the FIA, senior figures within the sport remain upbeat that a resolution can be found.

When Gandalf has his big stand-off scene with the Balrog, Ian McKellen is actually acting to a ping pong ball.

At best, the gesture distracts from the problems Japan needs to solve; at worst, it could lead to a stand-off and an escalation.

Yet a February coup d'etat heightened the anxiety of those who see danger in a stand-off.

Earlier, hundreds of youths were involved in a stand-off with riot police four miles away at Salford Shopping City.

The move comes amid a worsening stand-off over a Western offer for Iran to swap enriched uranium for nuclear fuel.

China renewed Google's licence to operate in the country, after a stand-off between the two over Chinese censorship policy.

Two months ago, Wang Jianzhou, China Mobile's CEO, blamed Apple's insistence on revenue sharing for the stand-off in discussions.

Italy has agreed to accept 140 migrants rescued off the coast of the Italian island of Lampedusa, ending a four-day stand-off with Malta.

In 2001, she was incarcerated for 42 days during a stand-off with Ukraine's then president, before being exonerated by a court.

However, the stand-off raises questions for the administration's stated goal of improving relations with China.

As army officers broke away and sided with the rebels, and ammunition depots were raided, the stand-off veered towards civil war.

The dollar-renminbi exchange rate has become the proxy for a strategic stand-off between two economic superpowers.

First, any such "deal" would be little more than a cold war stand-off, reached by enemies signalling to each other.

A world thus divided could make the Soviet-American stand-off "seem like a children's game" , says Mr Lukyanov.

That the succession may be rocky only adds to the threat from the political stand-off.

The stand-off began early yesterday after a police captain sacked from the service seized a tourist bus to protest against his dismissal.

After negotiations, the mutineers ended their almost 19-hour stand-off with the government and returned to barracks without a shot fired.

It's a stand-off. One of the Chinese soldiers notices something, stares at the Prisoner's back.

The slightly surreal stand-off, which drew a sharp protest from Washington, was carefully calibrated.

Now, with another nuclear stand-off and fresh uncertainties about succession, famine again stalks the country.

Once again, civil war was close: in October 1993 the stand-off between Yeltsin and his parliament turned into armed conflict.

In Beijing, the current stand-off is seen by some as evidence of discrimination against Chinese companies.

The move comes amid a worsening stand-off over a Western offer for Iran to swaenriched uranium for nuclear fuel.

This, of course, reverses the present monetary stand-off between the US and China.

There is an uneasy stand-off in Iran after a deadly weekend of clashes, and skirmishes on Monday between police and protestors.

After holding police stand off the man eventually gave himself up.

After a two-month stand-off the army moved in to clear the streets; 50 people were killed in the resulting clashes.

The brutality employed by Mr Assad and the stand-off in Libya speak to the potential for more violent upheaval.

But China's stand-off with America over Taiwan will still overshadow its relationship with Japan.

The diameter and depth of the holes eroded by HPAWJ increase with the increase of stand-off-distance.

Thai soldiers stand off with a crowd of Red Shirt protesters, Friday, May 14, 2010 in Bangkok, Thailand.

Indeed, we have these diseases cornered in a final stand-off.

His fearless, no-nonsense approach resolved more than one stand-off.

Mr Obama blinked first in the stand-off with Israel over settlements in the West Bank.

Fifteen British military personnel freed by Iran after a two-week stand-off were reunited with their families on Thursday.

For the future air war commanders know stand-off jamming effectively and formate reasonably in help.

Note that if you set the stand off delays to very large values, you may end up waiting a very long time.

The stand-off took place 75 miles south of a major naval base.

Red Shirt protesters set tires ablaze in front of a stand off with Thai military, Sunday, May 16, 2010 in Bangkok, Thailand.

Hair is fine but hard, straight and stand-off; never silky, curly or wavy.

With the tense stand off between Russia and Georgia.

Hovering over this stand-off is the prospect of an election, which Mr Thaksin's Pua Thai party reckons it can win.

Stand-off in Bangkok, about 1 hour later, the return of non-stop in Shanghai, respectively.

The women who always maintain many candidates, automatically complain us when we stand off them.

A 40-year-old man was arrested after a stand-off lasting several hours and remains in police custody.

Now when we play the geopolitical game of who will dominate the century to come, we add India to the stand-off between America and China.

Stand-off in Beijing A heated debate in the Chinese capital exposed the social impacts of waste management decisions. Xie Yanmei reports.

From the Chinese invasions to the Korean War, to the present stand-off today, the history of Korea is truly a tragedy.

Both were killed after a day-long stand-off.

A shareholder stand-off in the Black Forest.

Whoa, little Mexican stand-off we got here.

The government has also ordered a media blackout on Google's stand-off with Beijing.

The government has also ordered a media blackout on Google's stand-off with Beijing.

The forces of Light are doing all they can from the higher dimensions to bring a quick end to the stand off in Libya.

But it could leave the Security Council split and make an end to the stand-off with Iran harder.

You lose if the next roll is a 7 or 11, and win on a 2 or 3 (12 is a "stand-off" ).

It can stand off from any hand-to-hand units while shooting them down.

Evaluation of the Operational Effectiveness of Stand-Off Air-to-Ground Television Remote Control Missile

French Government Claims Upper Hand in the Reform Deadlock French government claims upper hand in bitter pensions stand-off

In Baghdad, the death toll from a hostage stand-off at a Catholic Church is now 58, 75 people were wounded,

Effects of Stand-off Height between Chip Component and Substrate on Lead-free Solder Joint Reliability

A Fast Solution to the Subject of Route Planning about Stand-Off Missile

Simulation of Stand-off Jamming Against Airborne Early Warning Radar

Study on Method of Effectiveness Evaluation of Stand-off Missile Weapon System

Effectiveness evaluation of stand-off airplane weapon system based on confronting process

Research on the Best Stand-off for Proximity Fuze

Brief Analysis about the Stand-off of External Meshing Gear in Slew Ring

One night stand. (One night stand, off! )

Analysis and Study on Fire Control System of Stand-off Missile

The power-sharing agreement that was meant to resolve last year's electoral stand-off in Kenya seems increasingly shaky;

Result is a stand off and EU signals no further movement ahead of Hong Kong