Sentence examples for is in deadlock from inspiring English sources

The party is in deadlock over how to persuade MPs to return to frontline politics – with dozens of positions unfilled on the current frontbench – or MPs taking on a number of different briefs.

Ministries have repeatedly been in deadlock.

The polls have been in deadlock since the middle of March, with Labour and the Conservatives both hovering around 33.5%.

In Athens talks to appoint a prime minister to succeed George Papandreou were in deadlock, and will resume on Thursday morning.

See articleMore than two weeks after they signed an agreement to form a government of national unity in Zimbabwe, Robert Mugabe's ZANU-PF and Morgan Tsvangirai's Movement for Democratic Change were in deadlock over the allocation of ministries.

Resolution 2139 was hailed as the first meaningful decision by the global body that has been in deadlock since the war began, with Syrian allies, Russia and China, vetoing all other moves to impose pressure on regime officials.

The two sides have been in deadlock for months because of disagreements over transit payments and Washington's refusal to apologise for the deadly attack, which it says was an accident.

"The two sides have been in deadlock in the past few years, but now prospects for an opening exists".

The Syrian peace talks in Geneva are in deadlock over the divisive issue of transferring power to a transitional government.

Miners and steelmakers have been in deadlock and running out of time in the annual negotiation since spot prices and demands on raw material have lost ground in the present global financial turmoil.

By July 1948 negotiations were in deadlock and the Netherlands pushed unilaterally towards Van Mook's federal Indonesia concept.