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The new law aims to end this stalemate by overhauling Ireland's consumer debt and bankruptcy laws.

This leaves China alone in a position to break the stalemate, by applying quiet pressure on its unruly ally.

The bill gets around the "amnesty" stalemate by turning the undocumented into Registered Provisional Immigrants — not citizens or green-card holders, but not illegal, either.

In the meantime, the government had sought to break the stalemate by severing the region's links to the capital and starving rebel troops in Eastern Ghouta.

Iraqi leaders have ended eight months of political stalemate by supporting the reappointment of Nouri al-Maliki as Prime Minister but have sought to rein in his authority.

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Firefighters in Northern California battled more than 1,000 wildfires to a stalemate by Sunday, but forecasters said dangerous conditions would continue.

Reform is stalemated by those who are protecting the status quo.

International negotiations on the nuclear program are stalemated by disagreement over the venue and date for the next encounter between Iranian negotiators and outside powers.

The report said the commission — often stalemated by differences between the two $43,500-a-year commissioners — abandoned background checks on the longshoremen who unload ships and the stevedoring companies that employ them, creating a critical breach in the nation's security web.

Changes in fiscal policy will be stalemated by opposing parties.

But American and Canadian authorities still find themselves functionally stalemated by it.