Sentence examples for hostile stalemate from inspiring English sources

Since then, Iran has been caught in an increasingly hostile stalemate.

But the effort to do so represents a sudden and radical thawing of their hostile stalemate.

The following morning, exhausted by our all-night hostile stalemate, my baby and I flopped on to the sofa, switched on the radio and braced ourselves for the worst.

Senior Israeli officials began meetings with the Palestinian leader Yasir Arafat tonight in an effort to revive the peace talks, part of a sudden burst of diplomatic activity seeking to break the hostile stalemate between the two sides.

Each team retained its pride and the visitors can be content with a stalemate on hostile terrain but Sir Alex Ferguson may be rueful that Chelsea have eased four points clear of them.

During the spring and summer of 1864, the Northern populace, growing weary of a series of military stalemates, was becoming increasingly hostile toward the administration of Pres.

Should the current stalemate persist, the dissolution of Syria into hostile enclaves could become permanent, leading to strife as prolonged as the civil war that ravaged neighbouring Lebanon for 15 years.There could be worse to come.

Isis is being squeezed by growing military pressure from its many adversaries, but these remain disunited and hostile to each other so, for the moment, the overall stalemate continues.

The political stalemate stemmed from elections that effectively split Parliament into three hostile fronts.

So far, President Obama has said nothing about the stalemate threatening his first, and potentially most important, effort at diplomatic engagement with a hostile foreign government.

Yet now, and despite Britain's much-admired takeover code, the hostile bid for National Westminster Bank by two smaller rivals, Bank of Scotland and Royal Bank of Scotland, could also end in stalemate.