As a result, the rebels have just enough weapons to maintain a stalemate, the war grinds on and more jihadist militants join the fray every month.
According to it, many high-level officials believed that the U.S. troop increase would be matched by the communists and would simply maintain a stalemate at a higher level of violence.
Just as the certainty of mutual assured destruction maintained an uneasy stalemate during the Cold War, Clarke thinks we should be more transparent about our current capabilities.
Specifically, KSHV-encoded vFLIP and vIRF-1 enable the virus to differentially regulate MHC-I transcription, allowing the virus to maintain an immune stalemate, which protects both the host and the virus from destruction (Lagos et al, 2007).
And C and I maintained a kind of stalemate.
Recent developments in western Iraq also indicate that Anbar province may become the new hub for such al-Qaeda-linked militias, as the Assad regime maintains an upper-hand in Syria's bloody stalemate.
With Ings off the field, Arfield took on the responsibility but despite striking his effort well, Speroni dived to his right to make an excellent one-handed save and maintain the stalemate.
Despite the German plans to maintain the stalemate with the French and British, German commanders planned an offensive at the Belgian town of Ypres, which the British had defended in November 1914.
