0 If a situation is deadlocked, agreement in an argument cannot be reached because neither side will change its demands or accept any of the demands of the other side: --
2 used to describe a situation in which people cannot agree and no progress can be made: --
They have been deadlocked primarily because of disputes over the international trade in agricultural products.
It would be wrong to describe the negotiations as being deadlocked.
The regulators' greatest concern, which we share, is about arrangements made by corporate bodies which involve "warehousing", joint control or "deadlocked" companies.
I see no reason, in those circumstances, why the board should be deadlocked.
I believe that the two sides are deadlocked.
Although some limited progress was made, the gulf between the two sides remained wide, and these inter-governmental negotiations also have become deadlocked.
That is a very powerful kind of question to ask in a deadlocked situation.
It is particularly disturbing that in these circumstances, efforts to reactivate productive negotiations are deadlocked.
