deadlock
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Some jurors said the difficulty of determining criminal intent—not the potential sentence—led to the deadlock.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 20, 2026
The proposal, presented by Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi over the weekend, is designed to break the deadlock in the conflict and set talks back in motion, the people said.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 28, 2026
The deal is designed to break the deadlock in the conflict and set talks back in motion.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 27, 2026
For those who were not fans of the existing ways to break a deadlock, the final straw came four months later.
From BBC • Mar. 28, 2026
What made the scheme novel was that for the first time it decoupled a test moratorium from all other disarmament issues, thereby removing the major cause of the deadlock between the two countries.
From "Big Science" by Michael Hiltzik
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