Sentence examples for deadlocked while from inspiring English sources

The jury again deadlocked while deliberating whether to convict Weekley of the lesser charge, causing a second mistrial.

The domestic violence statistics are horrific, and apparently deadlocked: while 570,000 women report domestic violence to the police each year, an estimated 60% of all cases go unreported.

Mr. Edwards, who by his own count has been investigated by 22 grand juries, first escaped conviction in 1985 when a federal jury in New Orleans deadlocked while considering charges that he had taken payoffs to help his patrons win state hospital licenses.

One commercial for Mr. Bush says that while Congress deadlocked over health care legislation, "he passed a patients' bill of rights".

At the moment, Democratic and Republican members of Congress have agreed to pass a handful of measures in the president's jobs plan -- including a job training initiative for veterans and a tax credit program for companies that hire veterans -- while remaining deadlocked over the majority of the legislation, according to the Los Angeles Times.

Syracuse leads Rutgers, 7-0, while Northwestern is deadlocked at 0-0 with No. 24 Illinois.

While the jury deadlocked on five of the charges and found Edwards not guilty of the sixth, what's of more interest than the legal question is the behavioral one: That is, when he needed help, Edwards turned not to a political mentor, a family friend or a longtime colleague, but to political donors.

While the commission deadlocked and failed to issue a proposal, the Simpson-Bowles proposal released by its co-chairs became the outline of several failed attempts at a "Grand Bargain". There appears to be some nostalgia for those talks among Republicans on the Hill.

While the diplomats were deadlocked over how to address violations of the sanctions, money and contracts continued to flow through the Office of the Iraq Program.

Right now the governor and state lawmakers are deadlocked over how to increase education spending while avoiding a redistribution of funds from wealthier to poorer districts.

Polling in late 2009 and January 2010 showed Brunner to be more competitive than Fisher in a general election matchup against Portman, while Fisher and Brunner were deadlocked in Democratic primary polling.