Sentence examples for deadlocked for years from inspiring English sources

Talks to reunite the island have been deadlocked for years.

Mr. Bush huddled with fellow party members in a closed-door caucus, trying to ensure the success of a package that had been deadlocked for years and remains tough to push through the House.

The pro and con groups have been deadlocked for 6 years on the new code.

Chief Pascal Lamy, the new director general of the World Trade Organization, faces a number of challenges as he tries to secure an agreement in global trade talks that have been deadlocked for four years.

The New York State Senate has been deadlocked for more than two weeks.

Council members were deadlocked for more than eight hours.

In this respect, Colombia's experience mirrors that of the Bosnian war, in bloody deadlock for three years until Nato intervention in 1995 routed Serb forces and made it in their interest to secure a peace.

Leaving aside my political differences with the Tea Party, it's fair to say that this has been a mixed bag for Republican lawmakers, whose caucus has been responsible for a congressional deadlock that's run on for years, so that it's become normal for vital US governmental agencies to shut down and send everyone home until a budget can be passed.

One foreign oil company representative was upbeat about the proposal, saying it would serve to "break the deadlock" that has paralyzed the system for years.

Liechtenstein's justice system has been at a "partial deadlock," with some cases sitting idle for years, and its assistance to prosecutors in other countries has almost ground to a standstill, a special prosecutor, Kurt Spitzer, said today.

E.U. leaders deadlocked over the seven-year plan in November but finally reached a deal last month after a 24-hour marathon of talks that resulted in spending cuts for the first time in the Union's history.