After nonchalantly walking straight through a Confederate camp and wading barefoot through snake-infested swamps, he reaches an impasse, with Confederate pickets behind him and a broad expanse of water ahead of him.
It seems as though he had reached an impasse with his spotlight effects.
The chairman, Christopher J. Dodd, Democrat of Connecticut, said last week that he had reached an "impasse" after months of discussions with the senior Republican on the committee, Richard C. Shelby of Alabama.
After six years as editor-in-chief at the Jornal do Bairro, an influential left-wing newspaper that opposed Brazil's military regime, he had reached an impasse with one of the co-founders, who was also his older brother.
He and his six fellow judges, he felt, had simply reached an impasse.
The magazine quoted Mr. Bloomberg as saying it would not be so bad if he and the Council reached an impasse on the budget and the board was forced to step in.
"Postmodernism is no more than a mere eclectic mixture of aesthetic elements -- modern and ancient, or Eastern and Western -- that have already reached an impasse," he said in his speech.
Much was achieved, but Hamilton reached an impasse when he could not show that the manifold would not snap into pieces under the flow.
However, his career at Lyon reached an impasse after he got into a training session scuffle with veteran Sébastien Squillaci.
Negotiations reached an impasse and Brawn decided he had no option but to leave.
When negotiations with Premier Zhu Rongji reached an impasse, von Pierer turned out his pockets, he says, to show that he had nothing left to offer.
