stalemate

Example Sentences

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Michael O’Hanlon: Since last fall, territory holdings have mostly come to a stalemate.

From Washington Post

In Japan, he criticized Germany for not doing enough to bolster Ukraine’s self-defense, while raising the prospects of a bloody stalemate in Ukraine with echoes of the Battle of Verdun during World War I.

From New York Times

The vote maintains the legislative stalemate made plain during a special session last year when the House and Senate failed to agree on when South Carolina should ban abortion.

From Seattle Times

"We have to state what we witness is a political stalemate, not a struggle between constituent peoples," Schmidt told a news conference.

From Reuters

Amid the ongoing war of attrition and a broad battlefield stalemate, those eastern areas of Ukraine have had little respite from Russian bombardment.

From Seattle Times