Sentence examples for tense impasse from inspiring English sources
The United States and China remained at a tense impasse over China's refusal to accept international monitoring on its turf.
And on Friday, when the N.F.L. Players Association decertified itself as a union, the Minneapolis court once again became the legal theater for football, this time in a particularly tense impasse.
After weeks of tense impasse and with less than 36 hours to spare before a Jan . 1constitutional deadline, Mexican lawmakers reached a compromise today on their country's most austere budget in modern times.
As Kadafi foes and supporters weathered the tense impasse around Tripoli in the second week of the rebellion, the international community stepped up pressure on the defiant strongman with renewed calls for him to step down and for sanctions to punish his bloody crackdown.
About 400 members of an Iranian exile group agreed Wednesday to leave a camp in eastern Iraq, another step in international efforts to end a tense, sometimes violent, impasse between Iraq's government and the 3,400 people inside Camp Ashraf.
The Post/ABC poll, which shows Americans holding Republicans responsible by the widest margin (45 to 31percentt), asks the question in a different verb tense, emphasizing the present impasse rather than a potential future shutdown.
The tense talks have reached an impasse and may require the intervention of an arbitrator, people briefed on the negotiations said.
The impasse, after two years of tense negotiations, broke into open warfare this week in a volley of lawsuits in 11 countries, including the United States and Germany.
Eight hours of tense negotiations on Zimbabwe's deepening political crisis ended in impasse tonight after Britain refused to provide extra money for land resettlement until government-backed squatters end their occupation of hundreds of white-owned farms.
If talks do not resume in the near future, the impasse could have a significant effect on already tense South Korean politics.
As increasingly tense protests take place in the street and the economy founders, the two sides remain at an impasse in negotiations being mediated by César Gaviria, general secretary of the Organization of American States.
