Sentence examples for protracted impasse from inspiring English sources

Time Warner, after a protracted impasse in negotiations with The Walt Disney Company, the parent of ABC, stopped sending ABC-owned stations to areas around the country, including New York, Los Angeles and Houston, on Monday.

From the start of the election campaign, through the vote last March and the protracted impasse that has followed, they have lobbied and mediated, bankrolled favorites and opened their doors — even as the Iraqis complain of interference in the country's internal affairs, often while on the soil of those doing the interfering.

UNITED NATIONS — The Security Council on Wednesday broke its protracted impasse over responding to the bloody repression of the protest movement in Syria, issuing its first denunciation of the violence there since the uprising began five months ago and putting the onus on President Bashar al-Assad's regime.

While the city appeared calmer last night, local observers warn of a protracted impasse between the police, which is expected to execute the warrant, and residents of Tivoli, who openly warn that they will arm themselves and resort to violence to protect the man they call the president, the man they consider their leader – if not their God.

A new Congressional Budget Office report on Thursday predicted that the economy would fall into recession if there is a protracted impasse in Washington and the government falls off the fiscal cliff for the entire year.

The more protracted the impasse, the harder it will be for the parties to get back to the negotiating table.

He said that the protracted political impasse had resulted in waning confidence among Iraqis, who, he added, had shown a greater willingness earlier in the year to pass information about insurgents to the authorities.

BAGHDAD — Moktada al-Sadr, the anti-American cleric in exile with a sizable bloc of followers in Iraq's new Parliament, took his first direct public step into the country's protracted political impasse on Monday, meeting in Syria with Prime Minister Nuri Kamal al-Maliki's top rival to lead a new government.

The protracted political impasse has raised concerns about a governmental vacuum even as American troops withdraw and extremists step up attacks to worsen a sense of crisis.

The Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health is hopeful that the additional time for talks will lead to a speedy resolution to the protracted damaging impasse over the junior doctor contract".

After years of war, looting, sectarian bloodshed and political infighting, Iraq's economy is beginning to take off, fueled by a resurgence in oil exploitation — and soon natural gas — and an influx of foreign capital that has swelled despite the protracted political impasse that followed Iraq's parliamentary elections in March 2010.