The remarks by the two sides, which managed to contain elements of conciliatory language and yet drew different conclusions of the state of the impasse, suggested that the diplomatic dispute had yet to run its course.
When the leaders of the shared government left for their Christmas break in a state of angry impasse, both sides warned that the shared government, which took office more than two and a half years ago, could collapse early in the new year.
The country faces dual sets of challenges: fiscal and financial imbalances along with an ailing banking sector, and a state of political impasse that prevents responsible political governance.
The farther right the Republicans went, the father left Democrats were forced to go to counter the threat, leading to a state of perpetual impasse and culminating in the shutdown of the federal government.
The city has suggested that disputes be resolved by the city's Office of Collective Bargaining, but the union filed its notice of impasse with the state's Public Employment Relations Board.
Illinois schools have hit a big rough patch this year, what with Chicago Public Schools' huge budget gap, continuing funding disparities throughout the state and public colleges struggling to make ends meet in the midst of the state budget impasse.
Between its strange state convention last weekend and the ongoing state budget impasse, California's party of no has seemingly taken center stage in the not so Golden State.
The legislative impasse illustrates "the state of contradiction in which Brazil lives" in regard to homosexuality, said Claudio Nascimento, secretary general of the Brazilian Association of Gays, Lesbians and Transvestites.
Then there is the news out of Pennsylvania this past week that a four-month-old state budget impasse might lead the so-called state-related campuses — Pennsylvania State University, Temple University, Lincoln University and the University of Pittsburgh — to eliminate lower tuition prices altogether for in-state students.
This sort of impasse between process philosophers and philosophers of the manifold seems to be characteristic of the present-day state of philosophy.
