deadlock

The executive will hold further talks with the secretary of state on Friday to discuss the government's offer of money to resolve Stormont's budget deadlock.

From BBC ● Sep. 10, 2026

On Friday, the judge in the Lindsay Clancy case declared a mistrial after a week of jury deadlock.

From Slate ● Sep. 5, 2026

A deadlock among the jury such as this one happens in "complex and emotionally charged trials", Heather Cucolo, a New York Law School professor and expert in mental health law, told the BBC.

From BBC ● Sep. 1, 2026

The Security Council straw poll was devised in the early 1980s in an attempt to break a deadlock between two candidates shut down by vetoes.

From Barron's ● Aug. 21, 2026

The effectiveness of machine guns as defensive weapons kept both sides from achieving a breakthrough and helped prolong the deadlock of trench warfare that immobilized the Western Front.

From "The War to End All Wars: World War I" by Russell Freedman

If the jury deadlocks after several days of deliberations and are unable to reach a unanimous verdict, the judge may declare a mistrial.

From Seattle Times ● May 29, 2024

Maryland lost its only games against Iowa and Rutgers, so those are deadlocks to be avoided.

From Washington Post ● Mar. 3, 2023

One reason our discovery is exciting is because it hints at ways to work through specific political deadlocks.

From Scientific American ● Mar. 1, 2023

Amid the deadlocks over the U.N.’s role in Ukraine, broader U.N. reform ideas have gained steam, including support for increasing the number of permanent Security Council members.

From Washington Times ● Nov. 1, 2022

They knew their place, the deadlocks, the crises and the other sensations of those glowing days.

From If Winter Comes by A. S. M. (Arthur Stuart-Menteth) Hutchinson

The decision to declare a mistrial after seven days of deadlocked jury deliberations has left the status of the case - and Clancy's future - unclear.

From BBC ● Sep. 5, 2026

The judge declared a mistrial after a Massachusetts jury deadlocked after seven days of deliberations.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 4, 2026

The jury has been deadlocked 11-1 with the majority apparently leaning towards finding the 36-year-old Clancy not guilty by reason of insanity.

From Barron's ● Sep. 4, 2026

At this writing, the jury does not appear close to a verdict in the Clancy case, and may well be deadlocked.

From Salon ● Sep. 2, 2026

This was a big bother for me and his cell-mate, because it meant I had to keep the bolt on the cell deadlocked all the time.

From "Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing" by Ted Conover

But the second pathway makes it complicated, because there are 17 deadlocking nations in pots one, two and three.

From BBC ● Dec. 4, 2025

Jurors deliberated for several days, deadlocking more than once, prompting the judge to urge them to continue deliberating to reach a unanimous verdict.

From Seattle Times ● Mar. 14, 2023

The judge instructed them to deliver the partial verdict, which acquitted Daniel Harris and Brandon Caserta while deadlocking on the charges against Adam Fox and Barry Croft Jr.

From Washington Post ● Apr. 8, 2022

It fell one vote short, deadlocking at 7 to 7.

From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 22, 2022

One day during afternoon rec, when I was deadlocking all the cells, he called me back to his.

From "Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing" by Ted Conover