'overcome the impasse' is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it to describe a situation where two parties are blocked or stuck and need to find a way to progress or agree. For example: "The negotiations seemed to have reached an impasse, but the two sides were eventually able to overcome the impasse and reach an agreement."
Eventually, Mr Murdoch hopes to overcome the impasse by buying back Mr Malone's shares in return for one or more of the group's assets.
But with Democrats rejecting the Republicans' latest proposal, it is unclear whether the committee can overcome the impasse and avoid deep cuts to federal services and defense spending.
While reopening the constitution is the honourable way to change the Senate, the prime minister's approach may be the only way to overcome the impasse over the upper house, concludes Donald Savoie, a constitutional scholar.
Teachers and police are both public servants – if demands for police reform were as rigorous and intense as they have been for teachers that would help overcome the impasse on reining in police brutality.
After three hours of talks Ms Mowlam said the two governments would work "flat out" to overcome the impasse by March 10 when the new Northern Ireland executive must be formed.
At the last of the three presidential campaign debates, on Oct. 17, Mr. Bush said he would overcome the impasse on patients' rights legislation in Washington, using the "leadership style" he developed in Texas.
However, one approach shows promise for overcoming the impasse.
The president certainly cares about his legacy, and successfully filling the seat, overcoming the impasse with the Senate, and placing a political moderate on the bench could go a long way to burnishing that legacy during his last year.
As a result, very significant successes have been achieved in the war on terror, in economic reform, in overcoming the impasse in Parliament, in securing borders, in combating domestic extremists and in reducing tensions along the Line of Control in Jammu and Kashmir.
"Raimondi is such an important writer because his style of writing is capable of overcoming the impasse that many felt existed in Argentine poetry between writing earlier styles of experimental poetry and writing poetry that is able to address everyday question of politics and poverty," says Bollig.
So the president may just need to dust down his old contacts book to overcome the nuclear impasse.
