However, one was for Bassett and t'other for Ellis, so the deadlock wa'n't broken.

The situation, thanks to Martinez's stoutness, had reached a deadlock.

When the tuna is raised so high he will refuse to come any higher, and then there is a deadlock.

Why a deadlock that has lasted over a quarter of a million years?

There'd be a deadlock when a conclave started checking their claims.

The latter was just as certain that Terry was amiss, and it looked as if they had come to a deadlock.

Information was at a deadlock, though in reality there was little to be learned.

In her mind there was no issue to the present deadlock save in death.

After this sweeping opinion, conversation comes to a deadlock.

But naturally it was soon proved to be false; and at first matters were at a deadlock.