impasse

Officials on both sides said the talks are still ongoing and denied there was any impasse.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 15, 2026

But if a gap remains and an impasse ultimately is declared, the supervisors no longer would dictate the final offer.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 1, 2026

“The continuing impasse in negotiations between the United States and Iran delays the prospect of a normalisation of flows into next year,” it said.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 11, 2026

“The persistence of the company’s proposal to close and sell the Brampton plant has hindered the bargaining process,” Unifor said, adding that talks have reached an impasse and are now paused.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 11, 2026

By February 1922, nine months after the murders of Whitehorn and Anna Brown, the investigations into the cases seemed to have reached a permanent impasse.

From "Killers of the Flower Moon" by David Grann

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

It took Spain four elections in as many years before a minority Sanchez government took over in early 2020 because coalition agreements could not be reached, with some impasses lasting as long as six months.

From Reuters ● Jul. 24, 2023

He has appealed to Spaniards to give him enough votes to "end the impasses" in the country's politics.

From BBC ● Jul. 22, 2023

We seem already to have found the city of rocks, the famous Cité du Diable; so labyrinthine these streets, alleys, and impasses of natural stone, so bewildering the chaos around us.

From The Roof of France by Matilda Betham-Edwards