Sentence examples for period of deadlock from inspiring English sources

With local elections due in October, the country may now enter a fresh period of deadlock, as Serb, Croat and Bosniak (Muslim) leaders again champion the interests of their own people, not of the country as a whole.

After parliamentary elections in March led to a protracted period of deadlock and deal-making, Mr. Maliki now leads an unwieldy coalition with parties pursuing conflicting agendas, including lawmakers allied with Moktada al-Sadr, a Shiite cleric in exile whose fighters actively battled against American and Iraqi forces until they were routed in 2008.

On the anniversary of elections that led to a period of political deadlock, setting a record at one year and counting, Belgium finds itself confronting a question worthy of a nation that produced the surrealist artist René Magritte: Does it really need a government?

It took until the third period for deadlock to be broken in the return game as Matt Haywood found a pocket of space to force the puck over the line.

After a period of relative calm, the deadlock following the Italian election reignited fears of a eurozone breakup.

A leader of the once-banned Muslim Brotherhood, Mr. Morsi is Egypt's first democratically elected president, but opponents accuse him of governing autocratically and presiding over a period of economic deterioration, political deadlock and worsening sectarianism.

"It's a new period of dysfunction at the F.E.C., where you have this kind of deadlock that's never been seen before," said Richard L. Hasen, a professor at Loyola Law School in Los Angeles.

Still, the keynote of the period leading up to World War II was the quest for a technological remedy to the problem of deadlock.

From the start, the central question was whether the split decision of the voters would lead to sharp partisan deadlock or a pragmatic period of centrist compromise.

Both sides spurned good chances to break the deadlock in the second period of extra time.

Senior administration officials in Washington and Baghdad welcomed signs of movement after months of deadlock.