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    impasse


    1. He makes the point that if I decide to press charges, my anonymity could be maintained … though I don’t see how … Jim accepts this course of action on my behalf, saying that he’ll contact Joan’s next of kin and see if that produces any possible way out of this impasse


    2. who pulled out me from the impasse was an


    3. The solution was the same as in her impasse over Andrastus


    4. The apparent impasse about my husband completing his thesis was getting on my father’s nerves


    5. But he did offer to avail himself to the negotiating process if I reached an impasse with Mr


    6. I am afraid to say that my mother and her medics are at the limits of their power, they are in an impasse not knowing what to do


    7. He knew Gelahn wanted to speak first and rejected that assumption, opening his mouth and allowing the words to frame the impasse between them


    8. But she does not know the full horror of what she is doing, does she? He has no-one to blame for this impasse except himself


    9. They stood there at an impasse for what seemed like an eternity


    10. Simon breaks the impasse, and his words are words of defeat

    11. “Don’t touch her!” Simon’s voice breaks the impasse, and the tall man raises his other hand


    12. Therefore, what we have is a form of managed “standoff” or a “dynamic impasse


    13. the impasse we run into when attempting to resolve the oedipal phase and


    14. “I regret that we have reached an impasse much like those listed in the ancient tomes


    15. Many are those, satiated with emptiness of the world, who seek to find a way out of the impasse


    16. This is the solution to the impasse


    17. When Greg arrived, they had reached an impasse


    18. Paul could tell that he had hit an impasse in the negotiating process


    19. It was Jaylene though who broke the impasse


    20. Finally, Glenn got it into his head that the only way he was going to break this impasse was to coax Ken into attempting an attack, missing, and losing his altitude in the process

    21. Phokion volunteered to break the impasse on the day he found the bath with the aftermath of a party and did so without complaint


    22. was a seeming impasse


    23. Grasping the sword by the hilt, he maneuvered his trapped guard around to block another onslaught, but he knew that this impasse


    24. The Klingon Captain had tired of the impasse, and so he pulled his


    25. “And now you’re at an impasse with the Romulans and your peace treaty is


    26. They were at an obvious impasse


    27. There are a number of possible approaches to this impasse


    28. The team was silent for a few moments, trying to think of a way through this apparent impasse


    29. for the Group and so, to resolve the impasse, Richard offered me the Group


    30. meet with him and filled him in on the impasse at Head Office

    31. “There must be a solution to such an impasse!”, he soliloquized, “there must be some way that will help me to retain my money and gain the great payment and reward of the hajj at the same time” (that is to say, at no cost)


    32. At a time when the nation had reached an impasse with the negotiations with the Chinese government and war looked to be a certain event he jumped into the scene like a savior and remained proactive when others were perplexed, to expunge any such possibility of war and thus extricated the nation from falling into economic crisis ensuring the sovereignty and dignity of the country to be intact” he said as people chanted my name


    33. “Seems we are at an impasse, you need off the ship, and I have no way off making that happen


    34. It seems that for the time being, we are at an impasse


    35. Magdi often came to the rescue and though I knew he, his tightfistedness, his venality and short-sightedness were the main cause of my impasse, I felt terribly grateful to him at such moments


    36. Part of it was due to the fact that my business had reached an impasse which I was unable to reverse and for that there is only myself to blame


    37. His sexual inadequacy vis-à-vis Lea"s needs had reached an impasse


    38. There were the Robbies, young and up-and-coming, out to solve their sexual impasse in a civilized way


    39. And this is my big impasse


    40. He found that writing everything down as it happened often helped when he had reached an impasse in an investigation

    41. One day, while writing “I Still Have That Other Girl,” we reached an impasse as to how to get to the final chorus


    42. July 1, 2006 - Orders a government shutdown amid a budgetary impasse between the state legislature and his office


    43. By May 1949, it appeared that Marilyn had reached an emotional impasse with Johnny Hyde


    44. Impasse barely describes the condition of things, for immediately facing the leading lorry was a squadron of French Cuirassiers, complete with "tin bellies" and helmets with horse-hair trimmings


    45. Merrington, with a quick thrill of excitement, straightened his height, watching the now thoroughly frenzied impasse


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    Synonyms for "impasse"

    blind alley cul de sac dead-end street impasse dead end deadlock stalemate standstill situation state predicament case plight condition

    "impasse" definitions

    a situation in which no progress can be made or no advancement is possible


    a street with only one way in or out