But on a cloudy April 1916 afternoon in Barcelona, the day after the city had celebrated the 300th anniversary of Miguel Cervantes' death, both men were preoccupied less with what windmill to tilt at next, and more with the impasses at which they both found themselves.
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.
The calamities multiplied for Mr. Carter as the country careened through rising prices, unemployment, gas lines, allies abroad killed or overthrown, hostages in Iran, embassies sacked, nuclear reactors melting down, nuclear arms impasses, the bankruptcy of Chrysler, the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan.
To dualists, those same impasses will signify the bankruptcy of the physicalist program and the need to recognize consciousness as a fundamental constituent of reality in its own right (Robinson 1982, Foster 1989, 1996, Chalmers 1996).
To avoid such impasses in the future, the plan gives more power to national governments—at the expense of pan-European market congruence.
The statutory powers given to the Ombudsman - the ability to command co-operation of lawyers and remedies including compensation of up £30,000 – have proved key to avoiding the sorts of impasses which bedevilled the previous arrangements.
The European Commission and the Council of Ministers have also referred their impasses to the safety agency.
Here and there you see comparisons between the impasses over the federal debt ceiling and the National Football League collective-bargaining agreement.
Impasses over the formation of the caretaker government and the election commission may lead to an opposition boycott.
The Corps of Engineers, whose role is to resolve such impasses, entered the picture in 1998, when the environmental agency vetoed the road.
