Sentence examples for impasse out from inspiring English sources

In effect, all the I.R.S.'s clerical serfs are Bartlebys; through them, and through this book, he emerges as the melancholy impasse out of which the American novel has yet to work its way.

However the impasse plays out, it is widely believed here that after the failure of both soft and hard approaches, Prime Minister Abhisit Vejjajiva will not last much longer in office.

But Florida's Republican bigwigs are unconcerned, suggesting (probably rightly) that the party would not dare to snub the voters of a large swing state.If the RNC can somehow resolve this impasse, points out Josh Putnam, an academic who runs Frontloading HQ, a website which tracks such rows, most other states should fall into line, undoing some of the frontloading of recent years.

After a labor impasse wiped out the World Series, some historians declared that the national pastime was saved by the home run race between Mark McGwire and Sammy Sosa in 1998.

When Ben Silverman entered the equation, NBC fell into what can only be called an impasse, churning out programming without achieving much success.

Fraser, and his deputy Walter Nash, refused to accept this response, and the impasse stretched out for several days; in the end, a compromise was reached where Newall remitted the sentences but the government undertook to repeal the legislation.

The league is already dealing with one labor impasse, having locked out its referees last Friday.

The acrimony that had characterized the impasse since late 2001 played out in private at the mayor's East 79th Street townhouse.

Last Sunday, the few residual matters in the long-running impasse were sorted out to clear the way for his return.

Of all the manifestations of Linsanity — the deployment of endless puns, the resolution of the MSG-Time Warner impasse that blacked out Jeremy Lin's games, the array of Lin jerseys on Spike Lee's person — one of the most telling might have been the sight of a man laughing inside a pharmacy near San Antonio last week.

The search giant cites an impasse in figuring out one codec to use for the future of HTML5-based web video.