The phrase "total impasse" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe a situation where no progress can be made or no agreement can be reached.
Example: "After hours of negotiation, the two parties reached a total impasse, unable to find common ground."
Alternatives: "complete deadlock" or "absolute standstill."
Our correspondent Helena Smith reports from Athens: "Total impasse" is how one well-placed official put it this afternoon.
In the event of a total impasse, the government could shut down as it did in 1995.
In the spring of 1967, at a time of total impasse in Israeli-Arab relations, he published a special issue of his journal Temps Modernes, devoted to rapprochement.
Puccini not only reached a huge and total impasse, he also went back and orchestrated every single note of his score to this point and then stopped again.
"The sham regime in Kinshasa is constantly committing irresponsible acts of provocation, plunging the nation into a total impasse that could lead to widespread chaos," Tshisekedi said.
Goodliffe agrees: "There is a mutual distrust and the only way to change that is for people to mix, but we are at a total impasse and it is only going to get worse".
The possible negative consequences of a continuing impasse or total collapse of the negotiations include the following: The newly installed and Republican-controlled US congress, which takes office in January, could impose a new tranche of sanctions.
The impasse over the spending total — and the gulf between Democrats and Republicans on any new tax revenues — scuttled the talks for now.
The result of the impasse that threatened the nation's credit rating was a near total defeat for Republican conservatives, who had engineered the budget impasse as a way to strip the new health care law of funding even as registration for benefits opened Oct. 1 or, failing that, to win delays in putting the program into place.
"I would term it a total success," Sgt. Rob Rahn of the Bonner County Sheriff's Department said of the end of the impasse.
By December 1999, matters were at such an impasse that Mr. Cross attempted to break the contract by refunding all payments plus interest, a total of $156,888.
