Supporters and sceptics alike have said that even if the referendum passed it would face a dead end in Congress, where Republicans would oppose statehood since it would add Democratic senators and a representative to Congress.
The master, which faces a dead-end cobblestone street, has an en-suite bath.
Or - never a bad idea when faced with a dead end - you go back and, like the brothers Marsalis, consolidate the pre-free tradition.
Science faces the prospect of a dead end, even as news reports about the so-called "God particle" trumpet that nature is on the verge of revealing its deepest secrets.
I was at a dead end, facing the bleak prospect of returning home without my man.
"Today the avant garde has come full circle – the artist who wants to experiment is again faced with what seems like a dead end, except that instead of creating in a vacuum he is now at the centre of a cheering mob," Ashbery wrote.
Although hard to imagine, the reality is that many clinicians will soon face a therapeutic dead end in the treatment of certain types of severe bacterial infections.
The LSVD association representing homosexuals welcomed what they said was a belated shift, saying it was a face-saving measure to exit a dead end.
