We had a military deadlock.

The pattern begins in parliamentary deadlock.

The pattern begins in parliamentary deadlock.

The Israelis refused another impasse was reached.

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.

We were at an impasse earlier this morning.

But this approach is a blind alley.

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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

Indeed, a strange sense of relief is now creeping into Americans consciousness as the consumer economy grinds to a halt.

For too many years the Baltic Sea was a blind alley on the political map of Europe divided by the Iron Curtain.

However, we were not mistaken when we argued that Communism was not a mere dead end of Western rationalism.

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

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

Welcome to the mad world of Israeli parliamentary democracy. The world s most multifarious political system has just crashed landed into a dead end.

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

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

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

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

The country is at a stalemate the opposition is unable to topple President Bashar al Assad s regime, and Assad s forces are unable to quash the resistance.

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

Parts of the film were shot on a dead end street called Palmwood Drive, where the Black P. Stones Blood gang members were seen on the rooftops.

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

Thus, while the Likud referendum seems to have left the Israeli Palestinian dispute at yet another impasse, both sides are on the verge of enormous changes.

Students were carrying out internships in other countries, but mostly on their own initiative, and it all came to a standstill with the onslaught of World War II.

Our critics say that since the reform that we are proposing is likely to be vetoed by some of the permanent five, it is a fruitless dead end.