The word "stalemated" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it to describe a situation in which neither side can make progress or gain an advantage. For example: After long and difficult negotiations, the two sides remained stalemated, and neither was willing to make further concessions.
And will American-led air attacks make the crimes of either any more likely to stop The two sides in Syria's civil war have largely been stalemated since the rebels invaded part of Aleppo, the country's biggest city, in July 2012.
But with mid-term elections in November, the Republicans have every reason not to throw the floundering Democrats a lifeline.How did as shrewd a politician as Mr Obama find himself stalemated, if not checkmated, so early in his presidency?
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The war, like the negotiations, appeared stalemated.
The battle for Sicily resumed in 254 but was largely stalemated until 241, when a fleet of 200 warships gave the Romans undisputed control of the sea lanes and assured the collapse of the Punic stronghold in Sicily.
Consequently, the war remained stalemated through late 1924, when Gen. Miguel Primo de Rivera, who had taken control of the Spanish government by means of a military coup d'état in September 1923, elected to pursue peace negotiations with Abd el-Krim while simultaneously withdrawing Spanish forces from the western part of the protectorate.
Thereafter, however, the French navy and army were stalemated, and an armistice was reached in the spring of 1885.
Instead, the two of them are disturbingly stalemated in what feels like the kind of deathly symbiosis you find in Dante's Inferno.
Fighting remained stalemated for months, with both sides hesitant to attack.
Despite Abd el-Krim's continued resistance and the proclamation of the Republic of the Rif in 1923, the situation remained stalemated.
The Japanese — stalemated in China and crippled by American sanctions — succumbed to the militarist logic of escalation.
