Neither side is budging, although either could easily break the impasse.

While sanctions may deepen Iran s predicament, they are unlikely to break the diplomatic impasse on nuclear weapons.

Morsi s Constitutional Declaration was a decisive though undemocratic, polarizing, and thus politically costly step to break the impasse.

April 8 Louis dismisses both Calonne and the keeper of the seals, or minister of justice, Miromesnil, in an attempt to break the impasse.

Only leadership by a determined great power, prepared to sacrifice its particular national interests in order to break the resulting impasse, might conceivably have saved the meeting.

My Government believes that the international community could break the impasse in disarmament negotiations with a strong recommitment to upholding multilateralism and working for multilaterally agreed solutions.

On terrorism, they break the long UN impasse over finding a definition, condemning all attacks against civilians, and propose a number of measures that member states should take.

From Olympia to Impasse

Making Sense of the Climate Impasse

In an effort to break the current impasse, Africa will continue to hold consultations with all interested groups, regions and individual Member States, with a view to finding a solution satisfactory to all.

Radicals among the Kosovo Albanian population began to argue that the only way to break the impasse was to launch an armed uprising, in the belief that this would force the outside world to intervene.

The Israelis refused another impasse was reached.

More and more Palestinians, fed up with the futility of what is still called the peace process, believe that Fatah s fierce rival, Hamas, the Islamist movement that rules Gaza, has more effective ways to break the current impasse.

Thai politics has thus reached an impasse.

Only leadership by a determined great power, prepared to sacrifice its particular national interests in order to break the resulting impasse, might conceivably have saved the meeting. But such leadership was as unlikely then as it is now.

The presidential candidacy of the moderate Islamist Abdullah Gul, currently the foreign minister, has been rejected by Turkey s highest court, and the parliamentary election scheduled for November has been moved up to July in an effort to break the political impasse.

We were at an impasse earlier this morning.

More specifically, we are here to consider how to break the impasse in the legislative programme the disarmament, demobilization and reintegration programme the redeployment of Government administration across the country and the conduct of free and fair elections based on benchmarks previously agreed.

First, the Conference on Disarmament (CD) is passing through a prolonged impasse.

On behalf of Algeria, I should like to pay tribute to South Africa and to President Mbeki for his personal commitment and for his untiring efforts to break the impasse in the peace process, and I wish to assure him of our full support.

And now that effort has led Europe to its latest impasse.

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

It s the only way out of a dangerous impasse at a dangerous historical moment.

I am not sure what the prospects are for truly emerging from that impasse.

But one thing is certain if the present impasse continues, the situation will only get worse.

Frankly speaking, the stakes are too high for the present impasse to be allowed to continue.

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

We hope that discussions aimed at breaking the impasse will continue on this very important issue.

Line Break

Short break

Lunch break

Instead, they clung to hard line positions, leaving Mubarak unable to find a solution to the impasse.

For those reasons, I deeply regret the fact that this year the Commission is facing the same impasse.

The world needs a decisive break with the past, and that break needs to start now.

Hence the impasse, with the eurozone becoming mired in a vicious circle of high debt and economic austerity.

Second, divergence of views on a possible fissile material treaty is one of the reasons for the impasse.

Break their teeth, God, in their mouth. Break out the great teeth of the young lions, Yahweh.

Break Up Citigroup

Break a leg.

I break down.

A possible political impasse in the US in September over the budget and debt ceiling complicates the outlook further.

Break the siege of Homs.

By the break of Day

By the break of Day

In order to escape this impasse, we have helped to launch the Global Commission on the Economy and Climate.