Obama so far seems unable to break this fiscal logjam.

Breaking this logjam will be important, both in itself and for the message that it conveys to domestic and foreign investors.

Even now, American politics remains strongly divided over climate change though President Barack Obama has new opportunities to break the logjam.

It remains for the US, working with Israel and the international community, to break this logjam and press forward toward a settlement.

The EU bet here is that, on the back of Croatia s accession, the enlargement logjam in the western Balkans will finally be broken.

On his behalf, Kerry has delivered a package of proposals designed to break the logjam that has brought the North and South to a dangerous crossroads.

If the government could help break this logjam, in a fashion similar to the manner in which courts expedite corporate bankruptcy, the benefits could be large.

There are rumors that Prime Minister Naoto Kan s administration is planning to break the logjam in the Japan Russia relationship by appointing Yukio Hatoyama, his predecessor as prime minister, ambassador to Russia.

Against the backdrop of disappointment from the past year, to which most delegations have referred in their statements, there is a need to put forward concrete proposals in order to break the logjam in the Conference on Disarmament.