Sentence examples for stalemate house from inspiring English sources

Because the Senate faced a stalemate, House Democrats agreed to adopt the Senate's bill as written, without further tinkering.

After years of stalemate, the Pennsylvania House passed a bill on April 12 that would drop the statute of limitations for filing criminal charges in child abuser cases, and extend the statute for filing civil cases to age 50.

That could result in an utter stalemate, with neither house being able to produce legislation that would withstand presidential vetos.

That inaction contributed to the extended stalemate between the two houses on the 2011 budget that wasn't resolved until April, 6 months after the start of the fiscal year.

The outcome could well be a House-Senate stalemate, and that won't be good for the GOP.

The proposal has infuriated the antitax conservatives who control the House of Delegates, the legislature's lower house, and caused a stalemate over the state budget that is threatening to disrupt government services.

With Attorney General Richard Blumenthal stepping into the fight — on the side of the preservationists — the owners and those who want to save the property are locked in a legal stalemate as the three-story house on East Avenue deteriorates.

Those differences have contributed to a two-year stalemate between the German and American passive house institutes, which have stopped collaborating on software, testing and certification.

The scandal has eroded support for Prime Minister Yukio Hatoyama's government ahead of the poll for Parliament's upper house, risking a long-term political stalemate.

Local views on housing shortages translate into a virtual stalemate.

Some candidates have begun calling for a "grand alliance" with the largest opposition party, the Liberal Democrats, in the hope of ending the stalemate in Parliament, where the opposition controls the upper house.