Sentence examples for protracted stalemate from inspiring English sources
Before Thursday, the Nepalese public was growing increasingly angry with the protracted stalemate.
So far President Obama has ruled out that option, which runs the danger of a protracted stalemate.
As the Aug. 2 deadline for lifting the debt ceiling nears, warnings are growing that the nation's economy may be damaged by the protracted stalemate.
Although Mr. Chen's election did not provoke military action from China -- as Beijing repeatedly threatened -- Taiwan and China seem to be hunkering down for a protracted stalemate.
Ellsberg says that such a policy inevitably would have led to the use of nuclear weapons and a war with China, but Johnson's policy, combined with the inexhaustible determination of the North Vietnamese, produced only protracted stalemate.
In fact, Mr. Obama has not made clear what will happen if the international coalition succeeds in establishing control of the skies over Libya, but Colonel Qaddafi's loyalists and rebels continue to attack and counterattack each other in a bloody, protracted stalemate.
In both cases, the protracted stalemates have prevented the former Soviet satellites from progressing towards NATO. .
The prospect here is for stalemate and protracted civil war, unless the United States and its allies undertake to equip the rebels with the tools they need to finish the job.
Those of us who suggested six weeks ago that Muammar Gaddafi would be hard to topple, that the more likely outcome of the uprising would be a protracted civil and tribal war and a stalemate costly in human lives were dismissed as somehow wishing for the outcomes we predicted.
They are also protracted.
