Sentence examples for hurting stalemate from inspiring English sources

And there has to be a "mutually hurting stalemate".

"Whether we knew it or not, we were generating a hurting stalemate".

By using military power or curtailing the flow of money, outsiders can engineer what scholars call a "mutually hurting stalemate".

"I thought there was a mutually hurting stalemate which is the sine qua non for a settlement in most cases.

Posen has decided that America can afford to leave behind a civil war in Iraq — one that we will "manage" on our way out, so that its result will be, in his words, "a hurting stalemate".

Mr Assad's backers in Iran and Russia, and the rebels' in Saudi Arabia and Qatar, could create a "mutually hurting stalemate" by blocking access to the finances or weaponry for both sides until they agree to make up, as happened in Kosovo in 1999.No sponsor will stop unilaterally that would be tantamount to accepting defeat.

In 1980 Britain ended Zimbabwe's civil war by simultaneously squeezing the government and persuading Mozambique and Zambia to threaten to end the aid that they supplied to the rebels making gains in the field.Mutually hurting stalemates are hard to bring about.

"This stalemate is hurting American businesses, their employees and consumers".

The stalemate hurt her political standing, reducing approval ratings for the Christian Democrats to their lowest level since the reunification of Germany in 1990.

And the stalemate hurt everyone from movie studios to Wal-Mart.

"The House Republicans' insistence on attaching anti-worker provisions to an aviation bill has brought about a terrible stalemate that is hurting the economy," Sen. Jay Rockefeller (D-W.Va). said in a statement.