stalemate

How To Use stalemate In A Sentence

• With heavy rain now falling, the game became bogged down in a midfield stalemate.
• The cultural patterns themselves are influenced by the structural instability and the cultural stalemate.
• The Council for Industrial and Commercial Development yesterday held a forum to urge the government to move away from the current stalemate.
• Additionally, the stalemate over economic union makes it difficult to assess the costs of insurance or mortgages arranged abroad.
• Tomorrow's meeting between the two leaders is expected to break a diplomatic stalemate that has lasted for ten years.
• In most of them, however, there have been periods of stalemate and vacillation followed by periods when the party in power rode roughshod over the protests of many minorities, disregarding the fact that such action was not legitimatized by traditional morality. Energy and Society~ Chapter 13~ The Enlargement and Concentration of Political Power
• So don't tell me that this game will eventually come to a stalemate like chess, where the player turns over his king and quits.
• The two sides are stalemated over issues such as salaries and health insurance for both retirees and current teachers.
• The simplest assessment is that it means no changes in the status quo: the round is stalemated for now, though there will be attempts, however faint, to revive it in Geneva in the months to come.
• From a humanitarian perspective, Western involvement has stalemated the struggle as Libya barrels down the path towards protracted civil war. Michael Hughes: US on Wrong Side of History in Arab Spring