0 a situation in which neither group involved in an argument can win or get an advantage and no action can be taken: --
Despite long discussions, the workers and the management remain locked in stalemate.
Tomorrow's meeting between the two leaders is expected to break a diplomatic stalemate that has lasted for ten years.
1 a situation in which nothing can change or no action can be taken: --
The approach sketched here may thus represent the best opportunity for dealing with a political stalemate that has persisted for too long.
The net result for those scholars not already committed to one or the other view seems to be stalemate.
The exact effects of the resulting two decades of stalemate are difficult to pin down, but two are unmistakable.
Granting veto power, however, entails the danger of a stalemate and thereby decreases rule efficiency.
We then arrive at the stalemate noted above where all solutions have problematic aspects.
In short, the entrenched ethnic-maximalist stalemate seems to have undermined the possibilities for forging working coalitions among the existing opposition parties.
There must be some more effective way of breaking out of the ideological stalemate.
How did the new regime attack this stalemate?