Sentence examples for near deadlock from inspiring English sources

Britain is heading for a second hung parliament in succession after the most drawn-out election campaign since the war appeared to be ending in near deadlock with Labour and the Conservatives tied at 35% each according to the preliminary results of the final Guardian/ICM campaign poll.

The standard of entries was so high that voting reached near deadlock.

WASHINGTON — With the two Democratic presidential candidates in near-deadlock and battling for every delegate, party leaders and the rival campaigns started searching in earnest on Thursday for a way to seat barred delegations from Florida and Michigan.

With the two Democratic presidential candidates in near-deadlock and battling for every delegate, party leaders and the rival campaigns started searching for a way to seat barred delegations from Florida and Michigan.

Negotiations with the Cabinet Office for the release of about 200 cabinet-level discussions, 25 notes from Tony Blair to George W Bush and more than 130 records of conversations between the US president and either Blair or the then chancellor, Gordon Brown, are thought to have reached near-deadlock.

The voting patterns established then displaced the near-deadlock the major parties had seen since the Civil War; the Republican dominance begun then would continue until 1932, another realigning election with the ascent of Franklin Roosevelt.

The deal ended a diplomatic deadlock that brought US relations with the nuclear-armed South Asian nation to a near standstill and hindered counter-terrorism operations against Pakistan-based militants.

By stepping up to its side of the deal, Brazil is making an open challenge to the US, where Senate legislation on climate change is near deadlocked.

Extra-time was no less absorbing, with Gabriel Zakuani's remarkable headed clearance of Gardner's goal-bound shot the nearest the deadlock came to being broken until Berahino, totally unmarked in the final minute of the game, somehow contrived to head wide from inside the six-yard box.

He said he understood the governor's decision to veto and stood by the Senate's vote to increase the wage but would not put the override question before Republican senators at a meeting on Monday, when they are to return to Albany to extend state spending in the face of a near record-breaking budget deadlock.

Brown dived in vain, however, when Little's powerfully struck 20-yard shot flew just inside the near post to break the deadlock.