deadlock

Stormont's Education Minister Paul Givan has said he is "confident" of a revised financial offer from the government on Friday, but still does not believe it will go far enough to resolve the budget deadlock.

From BBC ● Sep. 11, 2026

The exchanges of fire, which began with US raids last week, come amid a deadlock in the six-month conflict.

From Barron's ● Sep. 7, 2026

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

From Slate ● Sep. 5, 2026

Chandrasekaran resigned amid a deadlock over his reappointment and a widening rift with Tata Trusts - the charity arm which owns controlling shares of the unlisted commercial holding company.

From BBC ● Aug. 23, 2026

It fell to Ernest Lawrence, purportedly the only other witness to the conversation, to break the deadlock.

From "Big Science" by Michael Hiltzik

“We have resolved most of the deadlocks during the talks with Mr. Biden and we have decided to hold more talks in line with the positive agenda.”

From Seattle Times ● Sep. 19, 2023

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. role in Ukraine, broader reform ideas have gained steam, including support for increasing the number of permanent Security Council members.

From Washington Times ● Nov. 6, 2022

They clear up the deadlocks that come from the hard and fast use of terms, they establish mutual charity as an intellectual necessity.

From First and Last Things by H. G. (Herbert George) Wells

Jurors in Clancy's trial have been deadlocked for days, and have told the judge three times that they are unable to come to a unanimous decision.

From BBC ● Sep. 4, 2026

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

From The Wall Street Journal ● 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

The three downstream states of California, Arizona and Nevada have repeatedly deadlocked in negotiations with the upstream states of Colorado, Wyoming, Utah and New Mexico.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 21, 2026

Noon finds them picking their way through deadlocked traffic on a new motorway near Vaucresson, a full ten miles west of their apartment, as far from home as Marie-Laure has ever been.

From "All the Light We Cannot See" by Anthony Doerr

The jury in the trial of Sean "Diddy" Combs will keep deliberating after reaching a partial verdict, but deadlocking on the most serious charge faced by the hip-hop mogul.

From BBC ● Jul. 1, 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