After fighting a major Soviet offensive in June July 1944 to a standstill, Finland reached an armistice with the Soviet Union.

We had a military deadlock.

The pattern begins in parliamentary deadlock.

The Israelis refused another impasse was reached.

Nonetheless, steps can be taken to prevent political deadlock in budget negotiations, while increasing the budget s flexibility so that it can be used to stimulate growth.

In the context of that hope, it is difficult to understand the procrastination and disputes that caused the impasse at the 2005 Review Conference of the Parties to the Treaty on the Non Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons (NPT).

Both sides have maneuvered themselves into a dead end.

The South American Defense Council, however, has stalled.

Thai politics has thus reached an impasse.

Whatever the reason, the marriage negotiations came to a complete halt.

There were no decisive engagements, and the war ended in a stalemate.

In popular opinion, negotiations have reached a dead end.

The two armies came to a standstill as neither side was able to make much progress.

Political instability and gridlock have been the inevitable result.

Finally, yet another partisan struggle over America s debt ceiling could increase the risk of a government shutdown if the Republican controlled House of Representatives and President Barack Obama and his Democratic allies cannot agree on a budget.

We were at an impasse earlier this morning.

Hamas does not share this view, and Palestinian reconciliation efforts have reached an impasse.

But it is harder to explain that we keep these priorities hostage to each other, to the extent that we end up in a total deadlock and at an impasse.

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While Greece was having two rounds of elections, its recession deepened and policy action stalled.

Moreover, Russia's dialogue with the European Union reached a dead end in 2004.

Seventh, the group of four's complex, three phase approach will in any case lead to a dead end.

In New York the European Union deplored the deadlock that the CD currently finds itself in.

But this approach is a blind alley.

An impasse is inevitable, so playing for time is not a solution.

The DPJ is caught between a rock and a hard place, and Kan s premiership will surely reach a stalemate.

The adoption of the group of four's resolution, in the unlikely event that it happens, would lead to a dead end.

The world s most multifarious political system has just crashed landed into a dead end.

Internal conflicts that end not with mutual deadlock but with an overwhelming victory by one of the parties hardly ever produce diplomatic solutions.

This wrangling is likely to take weeks, but is unlikely to come to blows or to reach a complete impasse.

The UN s latest initiative to get low key, exploratory talks moving is going nowhere.

But pro European euphoria proved short lived for all practical purposes, the accession negotiations are now at an impasse.

Today it appears that, for its part, the Disarmament Commission may be approaching a dead end.

Conflicts start to be ripe for diplomatic solutions only when the parties get trapped in an unbearably painful mutual deadlock.

War Communism saved the Soviet government during the Civil War, but much of the Russian economy had ground to a standstill.

These deep axioms are implicit in economics as well, but, if left unscrutinized, they can steer policymakers into a blind alley.

Moreover, the World Trade Organization s agenda will remain irrelevant and, in any case, deadlocked.

Because an impasse beckons, it is vitally important to work on those areas where intensive negotiations have the potential to produce quick results.

But they are telling their favorites this because they think that pessimism now will lead to their being blamed for gridlock later.

So far, the burden sharing challenge, along with naive and incomplete growth models, may have contributed to gridlock and inaction.

The Armenia Turkey diplomatic process has stalled, and the Turkish government s effort at reconciliation with the country s large Kurdish minority has soured.

The process of recognizing the right to self determination of the Saharan people, which had been discussed for so long, was at an impasse.

Everything favors his taking the second option, which will tend to lead to a standstill, and even a step back, in efforts to resolve the Israeli Palestinian conflict.

Indonesia also risks deadlock if, as seems likely, the election on September 20 produces a president from a different party than the one that controls parliament.

This has resulted in stalemate, because governments can always blame failure on the inaction of others.