Most consistently, however, it has been inclined to award it to women when they can act, as Corrigan and Williams did, as an alternative to a situation of impasse.
Family therapy, on the other hand, is typically practiced in institutional settings, which might be desirable because regular supervision is possible and support can be easily accessed in situations of impasse.
Speaking ahead of an informal summit with his EU27 counterparts in Romania, Hunt described the Brexit impasse as "a very challenging situation".
The apparent impasse contrasted sharply with the situation earlier on Sunday, when the leaders of some local unions around the country told their members that the two sides were close to reaching a tentative agreement.
It is not first of all an economic problem, a financial problem, it's a problem of institutional governance it seems to me we are entering, and this impasse in the U.S. political situation is another brick in the wall of the demonstration of the big, huge problem of general governance in our institutions.
Both ships were however successfully refloated by the rising tide on 16 November, and the situation reached an impasse, with Malcolm's forces blockading Saint-Vaast-la-Hougue to prevent the French from sailing.
It would also ratify Mr. Kerry's status as the biggest surprise of the president's second-term cabinet: a hyperactive diplomat who plunges into seemingly intractable problems, improvises furiously along the way — making gaffes from time to time but occasionally devising solutions that have helped Mr. Obama out of messy situations like the impasse over a security agreement with Afghanistan.
The situation was at an impasse.
The situation was at an impasse until federal marshals had a clever idea.
And that purely political choice turns a difficult situation into an intractable impasse – with 1,296 lives as its human consequence.
