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

From Olympia to Impasse

In the past, when state economic decision making reached such an impasse, wars and or revolutions were the inevitable result.

Making Sense of the Climate Impasse

The Israelis refused another impasse was reached.

Thai politics has thus reached an impasse.

We were at an impasse earlier this morning.

Business leaders in Europe and Russia are beginning to seek a bold way out of this impasse a common economic space between Russia and the EU.

Business leaders in Europe and Russia are beginning to seek a bold way out of this impasse a common economic space between Russia and the EU.

While the peace and reconciliation process is at an impasse, the socio economic and humanitarian situation of the country continues to deteriorate, directly affecting the people of Côte d'Ivoire.

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

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

The internal fighting in Palestine began in part as a result of the political impasse caused after Israel and the international community imposed an economic embargo on the Palestinian Authority.

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

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

The current impasse on economic reform highlights a larger point subsidy and tax regimes cannot be reformed without first redefining the underlying social contract, which has long exchanged welfare distribution for political acquiescence.

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Political impasse is not only depressing economies by discouraging trade and investment it is also preventing the formation of governments that could implement much needed economic and institutional reforms and thus threatening to take these countries into a long downward spiral.

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

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

Consider the African Union's current efforts to find a solution to the post election political impasse in Côte d'Ivoire.

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

I believe that this is the way that we, back in our capitals, should look at the CD's impasse.

The reaction of EU member states to this ongoing self inflicted impasse is unambiguous rather than trying to reenergize the process of further political and economic integration, they are primarily acting on their own to try to fill the vacuum that has emerged.

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

Fortunately, there are signs that both China and Japan are seeking to back away from the impasse of recent years.

We must stop believing that the impasse in the CD can be resolved by clever procedural drafting exercises among ourselves.

Although it seems we are still at that impasse, I discern some potential avenues to take us out of it.

After having been in an impasse for a long time, these negotiations now have a genuine chance of being relaunched.

In the past, when state economic decision making reached such an impasse, wars and or revolutions were the inevitable result. As we face the type of turning point decisions not seen since the darkest days of the 1930 s, can we avoid such an outcome?

We hope that reason will prevail, as we count on a fair resolution of the present banana trade impasse in Europe.

It is important for us to look forward rather than to ruminate as to how we got to the present impasse.

There are no signs of this impasse going away because there is no political will amongst key actors to remove it.

Despite the protracted impasse, of course, there have been some noteworthy inputs to the consideration of the PAROS issue at the CD.

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