Sentence examples for awkward standstill from inspiring English sources

Talks between the authority, which owns the land, and Mr. Silverstein, who leased the property six weeks before the 9/11 attack, are at an awkward standstill, according to authority officials.

Yet amid all these signs of a belated upturn, as the Markit index cruelly revealed, there was one obvious and awkward weak link: France, the euro zone's second-biggest economy.After two flat years, French growth came to a new standstill in the first quarter.

It's standstill traffic.

Cambodia is at a standstill.

Prices are at a standstill.

Asia at a standstill.

Business is at a standstill.

Traffic came to a standstill.

We're at a standstill.

By their metrics, a standstill.

Negotiations were at a standstill.