'faces an impasse' is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it when referring to two parties or groups of people who have reached a point in a dispute or negotiation that they cannot move forward from. For example: "The two sides faced an impasse after several hours of negotiations; neither side was willing to compromise."
The episode was just the latest political minefield for the company, which last year faced an impasse over the national makeup of certain management posts.
At one point, facing an impasse, Mr. Wilson posed the question: What would Neil Diamond do? "And Josh basically sang about four lines in a row, off the top of his head, in Neil Diamond's exact voice," he said.
Sam Dillon (NYT) SURINAME, GUYANA: OIL DISPUTE The two South American neighbors faced an impasse over which country owns an offshore oil concession at the center of a renewed century-old territorial dispute.
Facing an impasse on welfare, Congress is weighing a three-year extension of the existing program, with tougher work requirements and more money for child care, lawmakers and Bush administration officials said today.
"There is no Israeli commitment to the road map, and this is an extremely negative matter, a matter which shows we face an impasse and real difficulties," said Yasser Abed Rabbo, minister of cabinet affairs under Mr. Abbas.
A20 Congress Weighs Welfare Bill Congress, facing an impasse on welfare, is weighing a three-year extension of the existing program, with tougher work requirements and more money for child care, lawmakers and the Bush administration officials said.
After torturously crossing the Pyrenees on foot, led by a guide, he and his party faced an impasse: the Spanish authorities declared that they had entered the country illegally, though others had made the trip successfully.
It seems that Apple Computer is facing an impasse in France's capital now that lawmakers there have threatened to sever the firm's lucrative hold on the music player market with its ubiquitous iPods and music downloads with its online music store iTunes.
But the mine faces a financing impasse.
Based on a conversation analytic study of ordinary telephone conversations, the paper examines the use of anyway as a sequence-closing device in context in which the participants face an interactional impasse.
