Sentence examples for stalemate from from inspiring English sources
The second will see Western and Gulf powers attempt to tip the balance back towards a stalemate from which negotiations can start.
The increasingly urgent cries to resolve the debt-ceiling stalemate — from Wall Street, bond rating companies, the Federal Reserve chairman, the White House, the Senate and pretty much everyone else — seem unable to penetrate the soundproof bunker built by House Republicans.
The extended unemployment benefits, traditionally provided by the federal government in times of high joblessness, were caught in a stalemate from the end of May until a crucial vote in the Senate on Tuesday; over those six weeks, benefits ran out for an estimated 2 million Americans without jobs.
Toil has come before turmoil for England since they won the World Cup seven years ago and all that can be said about this tepid, tryless stalemate from their perspective was that it was an improvement on their previous two visits to Murrayfield.
The Shah's army continued its strategy of avoiding the Ottomans, leading to a stalemate from which neither army made any significant gain.
During the stalemate from April to the end of October , 1917the EEF and the Ottoman Army improved their lines of communication, laid more railway and water lines and sent troops, guns and ammunition forward to defend their front lines.
In a series of stalemates — from the Arab-Israeli conflict to Lebanon Turkeyey has proved the most dynamic, projecting an increasingly assertive and independent foreign policy in an Arab world bereft of any country that matches its stature.
They go though after three group draws - which sets a record of six stalemates from their last six Nations Cup finals matches - having scored only two goals, and it is unlikely they will have struck fear into the hearts of quarter-finals opponents Congo.
The stalemate arises from two conflicting decisions from appeals courts.
The political stalemate stemmed from elections that effectively split Parliament into three hostile fronts.
After the war ended in a stalemate, money from the new Bush administration continued to flow.
