"impasses" is a correct and usable word in written English.
It is a noun that means "a situation in which no progress can be made, usually because of disagreement or stalemate". For example, "After several hours of negotiation, the two parties reached an impasse and agreed to end the meeting."
Just how these impasses will be resolved, and with what amount of brinkmanship, is anyone's guess.Barack Obama, for one, seems to assume that the Republicans will indulge in a spell of futile pandering to their base before compromising on the budget and perhaps a few other matters.
Impasses over the formation of the caretaker government and the election commission may lead to an opposition boycott.
As the 20th century ended, sharp differences of international opinion on various issues, ranging from global warming and disarmament to the Arab-Israeli conflict, sometimes led to impasses at such conferences.
You could describe Jaoui and Bacri's films as comedies of awkward manners, exploring the impasses people land themselves in, through lack of tact or excess of it.
Fiscal Hillock: A variation on the fiscal cliff for legislators who enjoy creating eleventh-hour congressional impasses, but who also tend to get sort of queasy around heights.
Here and there you see comparisons between the impasses over the federal debt ceiling and the National Football League collective-bargaining agreement.
That's because in budgetary impasses like this one, the city of Washington D.C. is considered a federal agency.
Listed as a series, the congressional impasses, conflicts, and imbroglios of the past five years resemble plot points for a dark television satire titled "Apocalypse As Usual".
We had to deal with snags, slumps, impasses, summary uprootings, slights, dilution.
With a color scheme of agitprop Mondrian, a background of blankly suffocating spaces, a barroom lesson in semiology featuring the young Marianne Faithfull's a-cappella rendition of "As Tears Go By," and a deluge of political rhetoric, Godard evokes a chaotic new world of deadly abstractions, artistic impasses, and insoluble conflicts.
Iran's new foreign minister, an American-educated diplomat, was officially assigned responsibility on Thursday for leading the negotiations with big powers over the disputed Iranian nuclear program, another signal that the country seems eager to overcome the impasses that have stalled those talks for years.
