Instead of solving the root of the tension, the tensions were leveraged against one another until a stalemate was achieved.
The crisis may precisely force a breakout from the economic dead end and political stalemate to achieve a meaningful rejuvenation of the polity and the economy.
Although promising to transform the war if successful, the Gallipoli Campaign was ill-conceived and ultimately lasted eight months of bloody stalemate, without achieving its objectives.
In recent months, both sides adopted more brutal — even desperate — methods to try to break the stalemate, but they achieved merely a new version of deadlock.
Even if one side acquires some lasting advantage, a new stalemate can be achieved simply by the other side recruiting new allies to its cause.
While the Super Committee found no consensus and Congress has achieved stalemate for too long, can our local policymakers get to higher ground?
The Progressive Party of Theodore Roosevelt, the American Independent Party of George Wallace, the Independent Party of John Anderson and the Reform Party of Ross Perot did not end legislative stalemates, and none achieved sustainability.
The harder question is how NATO will respond to the changed tactics of the Qaddafi forces, which now seem to have achieved a stalemate against the combination of Western air power and the ragtag opposition army.
As he says here, the best that might be achieved would be a stalemate.
The people of Korengal didn't want them; the insurgency appeared to have arrived in strength only after the Americans did, and the battle between the two forces had achieved only a bloody stalemate.
Kosovo took a major step toward self-rule today, conferring the presidency on the ethnic Albanian leader Ibrahim Rugova in a vote achieved after mediation ended a political stalemate.
