impasse

The two governments are in a diplomatic impasse.

From Barron's ● Oct. 27, 2026

However, if agreement proves impossible and an impasse is declared, a three-member arbitration panel would take over.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 27, 2026

Now the mayor's senior advisers were giving him another way he could end the impasse - using a development corporation.

From BBC ● Oct. 24, 2026

Officials on both sides said the talks continue and denied there was any impasse.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 16, 2026

How the incoming president would have resolved this impasse if Jefferson had agreed to resume the collaboration is impossible to know.

From "Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation" by Joseph J. Ellis

Besides brokering negotiations for private employers, the mediators handle worker grievances; train joint labor-management committees; appoint arbitrators if a dispute cannot be resolved; and assist with negotiation impasses in the federal sector.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 21, 2025

We don’t just use these things as ephemeral amusement — art helps us make sense of our lives at their most critical impasses.

From Salon ● Jan. 6, 2025

Spain has held four in the past four years because coalition agreements could not be reached, with some such impasses lasting as long as six months.

From Reuters ● Jul. 14, 2023

Partners try to resolve such impasses by digging in and working hard to convince the other of their own position, becoming further polarized.

From New York Times ● May 16, 2023

Why not plead ill-health, nervous breakdown, those doctor’s orders which have opened a way of escape from impasses of the mind as well as of the body?

From The Nebuly Coat by John Meade Falkner