deadlock

For the opening 10 minutes, the match followed the script of last year's World Cup final between the two sides, with Canada breaking the deadlock and England immediately hitting back.

From BBC ● Sep. 19, 2026

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

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

From Slate ● Sep. 5, 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

Our first order of business was to take individual cells off nighttime deadlock for the morning chow run.

From "Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing" by Ted Conover

“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

Objections to the Method of Choice by the Legislature.—One of the practical objections to the original method of choosing senators was that it frequently led to long and stubborn contests which sometimes ended in deadlocks.

From Government in the United States National, State and Local by James Wilford Garner

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

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

Working his way hurriedly through the alleys, circles, roundabouts, and barriers, he found himself trapped in a dead end, deadlocked and defeated.

From "Endgame" by Frank Brady

A previous trial against Atkins earlier this year ended with jurors acquitting him of first-degree murder and deadlocking on a second-degree murder charge.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 18, 2026

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 could not agree on a verdict on her allegations, deadlocking 8-4 in favor of conviction.

From Seattle Times ● Jun. 1, 2023

The jury wound up acquitting the men of many charges and deadlocking on the murder charge, leading to a mistrial.

From Washington Post ● Aug. 21, 2019

My mother was asleep; she was as deadlocking as a red-gray old sea-elephant stretched on the shore of a summer day.

From "Grendel" by John Gardner