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.

From Olympia to Impasse

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

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.

There had been calls from across the political spectrum that the only way out of the current impasse is to establish a new political party capable of staking out the middle ground between the NDP and MB.

In addition, every effort must be made to surmount the protracted political impasse at the Conference on Disarmament and to begin negotiations on the fissile material cut off treaty.

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.

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

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

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.

Reiterating its call upon the parties and States of the region to continue to cooperate fully with the United Nations to end the current impasse and to achieve progress towards a political solution,

I agree with your President and Secretary General that the revitalization of this Conference and its ability to overcome its protracted impasse will be enhanced by greater political level support for its noble causes .

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.

His Government commended the Frente POLISARIO for its recent release of the remaining Moroccan political prisoners with a view to resolving the impasse and hoped that the Kingdom of Morocco would reciprocate by releasing the remaining Saharan prisoners.

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.

By proposing a diplomatic solution to the use of chemical weapons in Syria, Putin offered Obama a way out of the political impasse threatening a military intervention with little support at home or abroad in which he found himself.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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