Sentence examples for violent stalemate from inspiring English sources

A violent stalemate.

Mr. Arafat's overture comes at a moment of reassessment on both sides of the violent stalemate here.

The US has now outlasted the Soviet presence of the 1980s and the Afghan war has entered a violent stalemate.

Hisham Kassem, a former human-rights activist and independent publisher who is now in the process of setting up a new newspaper, was dismayed by the events and angry at the crowds and this "violent stalemate".

The mounting Israeli death toll has brought accusations from the left and the right that Prime Minister Ariel Sharon has no plan to break the violent stalemate with the Palestinians.

The contrast with what is happening elsewhere in the region – bloodshed and vicious confrontation in Syria and Bahrain, violent stalemate in Yemen and profound uncertainty in Egypt – could hardly be more striking.

If our long, fierce stalemate does end in the next year or two, I fear it is more likely to end in violent confrontation than in negotiation.

Circulating in various versions, the video has injected new life into a six-week uprising against President Bashar al-Assad that has appeared to settle into a bloody stalemate of protests and violent government responses.

Although Yingluck has called for a snap election on February 2 in an attempt to appease protesters, the opposition Democrat party has decided to boycott it, leading to a political stalemate that analysts say could become increasingly violent if left unchecked.

To the frustration of expatriates living in America, few of them are inclined to use violent methods, or to lay down their lives, to end the stalemate.

Awakening it would require such radical moves as an open rift with the US (withholding assistance or allowing Security Council sanctions) or violent escalation with the Palestinians, setting a high price-tag on the current stalemate.