impasse

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This impasse “raises concerns over the viability of the fragile cease-fire and casts doubt over the prospects of a peace deal,” Tradu.com’s senior market analyst Nikos Tzabouras says in an email.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 17, 2026

The judge added that he hoped this case could be an exception to the ongoing impasse.

From BBC • May 11, 2026

The impasse unnerved global energy markets, with international benchmark Brent crude prices rising 4.65 percent to $99.95 a barrel during early Monday trade in Asia.

From Barron's • May 11, 2026

But "it might just break the impasse," said another MP, by giving others a vehicle to express their view that the leadership needs to change.

From BBC • May 9, 2026

The neglect of the dishes, I discovered, was due to a curious impasse: Sally, the maid, now serving also as cook, refused to clean dishes, despising the lowly office of scullion.

From "The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves" by M.T. Anderson