The phrase "deadlocked about" is grammatically correct and can be used in written English in certain contexts.
It is typically used to describe a situation or discussion where there is a stalemate or lack of progress due to differing opinions or conflicting interests. Example: The negotiations between management and the union were deadlocked about the proposed salary increases, leading to a delay in reaching a resolution. Note that "deadlocked" can also be used on its own without the preposition "about" to indicate a state of deadlock or standstill. This usage is more common and can be used in various contexts. Example: The two political parties were deadlocked in their efforts to pass the new legislation.
In the future, the Security Council may be deadlocked about intervening, and presidents and prime ministers will have to turn instead to their people for permission to save civilians.
Michael Franz, a professor at Bowdoin College who has studied voting patterns at the commission, estimates that it deadlocked about 4.5percentt of the time in a large sample of those sorts of cases from 1996 to 2004.
Congress is often deadlocked about many issues.
DARK SMOKE: The Cardinals are still deadlocked about what to do.
After 52 hours of deliberation, jurors in the Bill Cosby sexual assault trial declared Saturday that they were "hopelessly deadlocked" about whether the comedian drugged and molested Andrea Constand in 2004.
His outgoing Fine Gael-Labour coalition government will remain in a caretaker capacity as political parties remain deadlocked about the way forward after the most divisive general election in recent times.
But the supreme court deadlock, brought about by the death of conservative justice Antonin Scalia, will not last forever and labor's critics and foes have vowed to keep up the fight – redoubling efforts to persuade the courts to proscribe any legal requirement that workers pay union fees.
The jury deadlocked on charges that about five years after she seduced the first boy, she also had sex with the second student, when he was 12 or 13.
And for the last two months Democrats and Republicans in Congress have been deadlocked over what to do about it, their differing views so deeply held as to transcend partisanship or even ideology and enter the realm of religion.
"By 6 a.m. the election was still deadlocked, but we had talked about everything from books to the Dallas Cowboys to the best restaurants in Jakarta, where she had briefly worked".
The nations of the world might be deadlocked over what to do about greenhouse gases, but one important agreement reached 20 years ago seems to have produced tangible benefits for the atmosphere and Earth's inhabitants.
