How To Use Impasse In A Sentence

This dilemma perfectly sums up the impasse in all republican-loyalist negotiations.
Well, quite frankly, we are at an impasse here.
The only way to break such impasses is not through some kind of plausibly democratic process -- e.g., Balkinization
Amid the impasse, Sen. John Kerry (D-Mass.) on Tuesday introduced draft legislation that seeks to reform laws governing how broadcasters and cable/satellite providers conduct negotiations over fees to retransmit television signals. No deal on Cablevision-Fox; Sen. Kerry introduces draft bill to reform TV fees rules
The election commission reached an impasse on the day of the vote Thursday after the opposition, backed by international observers, demanded that votes be sent from individual polling stations by a satellite-based system believed to be tamperproof. Dictator's Son Winner of Togo Election

While no definitive solution to the impasse was reached there will be a further meeting of all concerned next week
My prediction is that dollarization will continue to help with these problems, although political impasses will sometimes occur.
The priest has met other churchmen to discuss the impasse, including 12 Presbyterian ministers from the north of the city.
His ministry had reached an impasse. Christianity Today
The deal resolved an impasse over welfare reforms. Times, Sunday Times
So, breaking that impasse is VERY welcome, essential and well over due. Latest on Cork Church records going online… « Cork Genealogist
Anonymous, unpresuming spaces: backyards, little squares, impasses, narrow streets and alleyways.
The parties have been locked in talks over how to resolve the impasse for days, as they draft a full coalition agreement. The Sun
It becomes particularly important when the relationship meets an impasse.
The opportunity to end the impasse now exists. Times, Sunday Times
That does not mean the current impasse has to be final. Times, Sunday Times
We're trying to tell players that once you go past the point of [impasse], it's difficult to put the yolk back in the egg, '' said the Boston Red Sox's John Harrington, the owners 'point man. Baseball's Hardest Sell
Matters would appear to have reached an impasse. Times, Sunday Times
The present impasse has also aroused a deep dislike for the politics being manipulated and imposed on the society.
Today the EU is satisfyingly mired in impasse following the Irish vote against the Lisbon treaty. Archive 2008-08-24
The bill also provides a new form of assistance to overcome impasses in collective bargaining and facilitate settlement wherever possible.
Second, Athene's court, for all its pomp and ceremony, procedural proprieties, and ordered speeches does not in the end resolve the conflict: the result is an impasse following an even split between the jurors.
I changed my party affiliation at a time when my state, California, was in a big battle over energy and recalls and budget impasses.
For one or more of these reasons, you have reached an impasse. You and Your Adolescent: A Parents' Guide for Ages 10 to 20
At first glance, bi-nationalism seems to offer an attractive exit from the grinding impasse of the current conflict.
The dispute had reached an impasse, as neither side would compromise.
In recent years, liberalism has profited from the impasse. Ruling vs. Governing
The tax expired last Dec. 31, a casualty of a congressional budget impasse in Washington.
But the current impasse arose because of the unorthodox way in which the bankers covered their own backs.
In the military impasse that ensued, negotiations between the two sides made little progress.
Accept that you have come to an impasse or that you agree to disagree, and bid a courteous adieu.
The killings that became known as the Mykonos affair finally broke the political impasse, culminating in the Iranian leadership being officially accused for the first time of involvement in international terror and murder. The Secret War with Iran
In an article in The New York Review of Books last October, "The Afghanistan Impasse," Ahmed Rashid wrote that the province (which he calls Balochistan), bordering both Afghanistan and Iran, is only slightly more under the control of Pakistan's central government than the country's tribal areas: The Lede
But business leaders want a speedy resolution to the impasse. Times, Sunday Times
The impasse was resolved last night with the Germans getting their way. Times, Sunday Times
Roy attacks the impasse from a different perspective. Pepe Escobar: Letter from Islamophobistan
Her success in finding a way out of the legal impasse will boost her wider political ambitions. Times, Sunday Times
Although the Government believes it has powers to arrest any vessels in breach of this rule, it is understood that no boats will be detained until the current legal impasse has been resolved.
At one stage it looked as if the impasse could lead to a hiatus in Eurofighter production, threatening more than 1,000 jobs.
The proposal offered both sides a way out of the diplomatic impasse.
The statement confirmed something that many Mideast watchers have suspected for a long time: that the settlement impasse originated not with Netanyahu or Abbas, but with Obama -- who by insisting on an Israeli freeze has created a near-insuperable obstacle to the peace process he is trying to promote. How Obama sabotaged Middle East peace talks
The impasse is an invitation to Ferdinand's suitors to make a bid.
The bank refused to offer me any alternative and we seem to have reached an impasse. Times, Sunday Times
Yet it is the source of the current impasse. Times, Sunday Times
But business leaders want a speedy resolution to the impasse. Times, Sunday Times
It is refreshing to finally have a frank and open discussion about these ideological impasses.
He leavens his vision of the human slaughterhouse with emotions, but these nearly always lead to impasse, or compromise.
Each impasse dissolves into the other in their provocation and insolubility: how, on the one hand, to voice the ground of being in the fact of speech; and on the other, for instance, how to say "I" without meaning something else — or less — than identity. Phonemanography: Romantic to Victorian
Mr. Pawlenty attributed the current impasse on what he called "preposterous" proposed spending increases. Minnesota's Woes Shadow Pawlenty
A way out of the current impasse lies less in a thorough overhaul of the Constitution than in a public awakening to the need to strengthen citizens' participation in politics.
The political process is at an impasse.
The U.S. general said Iraq's political impasse and increasing levels of violence have resulted in waning confidence among Iraqis, who are now less willing to share information about insurgents. US General: Iraqi Political Vacuum Fuels Violence
Referenda would also possibly provide a way out of the impasse when Commons is at loggerheads with the Lords.
At more than nine minutes in length, the track is an ambient impasse, a slow-moving mass of nothing much.
He had reached a philosophical impasse. The Friendship: Wordsworth and Coleridge
Such an agreement should remain a goal, but is not essential for ending the current impasse.
The political process is at an impasse.
The essay was titled: The China impasse, a Formosan view PDF-format. Archive 2009-03-01
Suggestions about how to resolve this impasse fall into three main categories, which I shall call the extremist, the idealist and the accommodationist.
The negotiations had reached an impasse, with both sides refusing to compromise.
Despite the current impasse, you wouldn't bet against another episode. Times, Sunday Times
His ideas helped me when I reached an impasse. The Sun
The Wall Street retreat was also nudged by fears throughout the day stirred by the continued budget impasse.
The tax expired last Dec. 31, a casualty of a congressional budget impasse in Washington.
ANC MP and Pietermaritzburg's deputy mayor Rob Haswell greeted the appreciative crowd with a shout of "amandla" and conveyed a message from mayor Pat Cornell saying that he would offer his services in an attempt to break the impasse and conflict in the city's townships. ANC Daily News Briefing
Nevertheless, while he pursued this utopian conception, he also saw in the course of history the configuration of its crises and impasses.
If that goes ahead, and the impasse continues, another election could occur, Murphy said.
How has evolutionary theory gotten itself into such an impasse? The Runaway Brain: the Evolution of Human Uniqueness
This U.S. military support, a remnant of America's Cold War containment policy, prevents China from using force to end the impasse.
At last, Auster gave a little shrug, which seemed to acknowledge that they had come to an impasse.
This was the impending impasse to which Rider addressed himself.
Many of those on the outside will feel that Planet Football has reached such an impasse. Times, Sunday Times
As we all know, because President Obama, UK Foreign Secretary Miliband and the serried ranks of the EU keep telling us, it is Israel’s obduracy which is holding up a resolution of the Middle East impasse. On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with...
An impasse was reached and the lorry remained where it was for nearly three hours, to the consternation of motorists behind.
In recent years there has been both a discernible weariness with the violent impasse and a growing desire for peace among the parties to the conflict.
As the main opposition groups demanded a national unity government to end the impasse, Western donors cut direct aid in protest. Times, Sunday Times
We found an escape route from the impasse. Times, Sunday Times
Pierre Bonnard (1867-1947) "Impasse ou La ruelle (Le Cannet)" 1925 The New Art Market's Ups and Downs
Then came the impasse on the verdict of his trial for murder. Times, Sunday Times
There emerges an impotent impasse in which the actually organic aspect takes over.
The current impasse seems solid. Times, Sunday Times
The proposal offered both sides a way out of the diplomatic impasse.
Answers to these questions are key to the current impasse in the endless debate on the bill.
This is the usual refuge of diplomats unable to agree, unwilling to admit the impasse.
How was a player supposed to perform credibly under the current impasse? he asked.
He said a long-term impasse could well get in the way of any national participation. What GOP field?
Suicide often provokes the rhetorical impasse here encountered; the sign is clear but incommunicable.
Vice President Joe Biden has made repeated trips to Iraq since elections there on March 7, and his chief foreign policy advis er, Antony Blinken, is currently in Baghdad, meeting with politicians on both sides working to resolve the impasse that followed the vote. U.S. Urges Iraqi Deal Before Pullout
That the actions that follow on the failure to comply with minimum sleep need are themselves aggressive, whether in relation to others ( 'more likely to sit and seethe in traffic jams, quarrel with other people') or to the self ( 'overeat'), indicates the impasse reached, personally and politically, when the body's and the brain's last bastions of unconscious processing are ignored in favour of the logic of round-the-clock alertness. 'Insomnia: A Cultural History'
The president -- whose earlier peace efforts accomplished little -- insisted that Middle East peace "will not come through statements and resolutions" at the world body and put the onus on the two sides to break a yearlong impasse and return to peace talks. Reuters: Top News
The impasse between the two, which Derrida called aporia, the Greek word for the impasse itself, is that we want both the conditional and unconditional at the same time but, yet, at the same time we don't want either of them because each of them has a shortcoming. Penn State Live
The reflex to laugh at humorous or embarrassing situations serves an important social function, she argued, providing a way to defuse factors such as tension and shame before they turned into more damaging quarrels or impasses.
The bank refused to offer me any alternative and we seem to have reached an impasse. Times, Sunday Times
We have reached an impasse. Times, Sunday Times
An eschatological vision of the world may offer an alternative way out of the impasse of provincialism and confessionalism.
And I find myself wondering if the director, who recently turned 50, might not be at some sort of creative impasse, sorrowing for the lost simplicities of a rural way of life, and the passions and certainties of youth.
After taking heat for skipping a major international conference on Libya to stay on the hustings, Foreign Affairs Minister Lawrence Cannon will globetrot this week to two major meetings aimed at finding a way around the impasse in the country. The Globe and Mail - Home RSS feed
That was the status quo last Thursday, when, under the collective bargaining laws, the parties meaning the mayor on one side and the unions on the other brought to the commission what is called an "impasse" or stalemate in negotiations, meaning in this case that the parties were deadlocked on one issue, but in agreement on the bulk of the agreement. Xavier L. Suarez: The Dos and Don'ts of Dealing With an Impasse
Many readers are probably in a glum mood this morning, what with the world trade talks at a seeming impasse.
However the impasse is resolved, the fracas that has followed the USFWS bluebill-limit reduction has underscored anew how much Minnesota waterfowlers love this bird. MyLinkVault Newest Links
Both Sir Michael Somare and O'Neill have seven days to implement the supreme court's orders to resolve the current political impasse or I will be forced to take actions to uphold the integrity of the constitution, Sasa told reporters in Port Moresby, the capital. Army rebellion deepens Papua New Guinea constitutional crisis
Contained in the impasse over the formation of a new government are the seeds of a descent into communal conflict and civil war.
The result is an impasse that senior conservatives recognise could cost them dearly in next year's presidential election. Times, Sunday Times
It is understood that the talks have hit an impasse. Times, Sunday Times
This set of facts does not add up to an "aporia" or a "conceptual catachresis," as Guillory claims (215, 216); there is no logical impasse here — nor even a pragmatic or institutional one, as becomes obvious as soon as we broaden our horizon and look at the diverse kinds of critical projects that de Manian theory has in fact inspired over the last twenty years. Professing Literature: John Guillory's Misreading of Paul de Man
MacIntyre has much to say about emotivism and the contemporary impasse in the discussion of moral issues. The US may be in bad shape
The tendency of novel theory to define the novel as a genre that is sui generis does lead to certain impasses and quandaries, whether in the theory of the novel as such or of a subgenre like the Bildungsroman.
To abandon this conceptual objective for any temporary, subjective, personal convenience is a formula for a general regulatory impasse. ... Jon Entine: With the European Union and a Slew of New Studies Reaffirming the Safety of BPA, At What Point Will the Science Prevail?
Negotiations appear to have reached an impasse. Times, Sunday Times
How to resolve this impasse? Times, Sunday Times
The owners will declare an impasse this fall or next, then impose a salary cap and invite the prodigals to cross a picket line to join career minor leaguers in what will be a decidedly inferior confederation.
The company says it has reached an impasse in negotiations with the union.
Just as important is a lasting settlement to the conflict in Cyprus, which remains at an impasse. Times, Sunday Times
Such laws usually include more detailed procedures for resolving negotiating impasses that may arise during the bargaining process.
The bank refused to offer me any alternative and we seem to have reached an impasse. Times, Sunday Times
From its unpromising beginning, the poem has moved through some vivid description to an impasse. The Times Literary Supplement
Talks were expected to continue Thursday, and few on either side expected a long-term impasse. Legislature Lets Rent Laws Expire, for Now
And, in their rather wonderful way, they pieced together an autocritique of their impasse. Néojaponisme » Blog Archive » The Jimusho System: Part Two
The bank refused to offer me any alternative and we seem to have reached an impasse. Times, Sunday Times
So the answer to the current impasse is clear. Times, Sunday Times
Routine revisions to the previous months' figures were delayed by the budget impasse between the White House and Congress.
[3] Beckett's French translation of Murphy gives the "mew" in West Brompton as "l'impasse de l'Enfant JÃ©sus," introducing a Christian reference into the city grid. Beckett: Still Stirring
The impasse ended as both agreed it was better to continue talking than not. Times, Sunday Times
Imaginary resources, in the form of sovereign rents and aid flows, lie at the heart of the impasse.
If the impasse continues, the jockeys could take the matter to court.
Better a halting dialogue between the right and left hand, full of gaping pauses and impasses, I suggested, rather than a glib ambidextrousness.
The nuclear impasse on this strife-torn peninsula has been, and remains, a crisis of politics. Globe and Mail
Residents warned they were ready to do battle with the government if a settlement is not brokered by their elders, who were meeting to find a way out of the impasse.
Florida's Vote-by-mail Plan Gains Few Fans" (Adam Smith and Wes Allison, St. Petersburg Times) The one idea that seemed to offer a way out of the impasse is not exactly popular among those who would be doing or organizing the voting. The Daily 2008 - Real Clear Politics – TIME.com
It seemed that his death stood at the impasse of our days, unfittingly harbored in his ghostly life.
Herein resides the best possible solution to the European impasse: an outcome that restores growth, avoids self-defeating austerity, and allows the best possible recovery for bondholders, who would collect more pennies on the dollar than they would if debtor countries were pushed into depression in a futile effort to pay every centime. Memo to Europe: Forget the War
The result is an impasse, which is normally the case when blind insularity meets common sense.
The dispute had reached an impasse, as neither side would compromise.
But historically, mediators have allowed other airlines' contract negotiations to go on for years before declaring an impasse.
They are at pains to state that this impasse has not been brought about by the demands of people in their profession, but is rather because of promises not kept.
By focusing on the nature of a couple's disagreements and by accepting that differences of opinion will always exist, it is possible to transform relationship impasses into greater peace and intimacy.
How much damage will the impasse do to Indian telecoms?
Janken, as the first known true RPS game, was roused into existence by application of the Guu Choki Paa or Sansukumi way of thinking, which can be defined as a nontransitive tripartite system, or, in laymen’s terms, a three-way impasse. THE OFFICIAL ROCK PAPER SCISSORS STRATEGY GUIDE
I have noted his appeal to doctors to desist from industrial action in their current impasse.
Two men have it in their power, if they can each take the pain of a partial climbdown, to end the impasse. Times, Sunday Times
reached an impasse on the negotiations
The least treacherous way out of the impasse is a compromise that can be justified by the demands of the time.
For their sake, European politicians must resolve this impasse urgently. Times, Sunday Times
But the timing of the meeting was unrelated to this week's spike in insurgent attacks, and politicians gave no sign they were ready to overcome the eight-month political impasse, during which the security situation has deteriorated. Iraqis Mourn, Plan Political Session
This impasse between dirt and synthetic surfaces is likely to run and run. Times, Sunday Times
Against that background, diplomatic efforts to find a solution to the impasse intensified.

How To Use Impasse In A Sentence

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