| The result is an impasse, which is normally the case when blind insularity meets common sense. |
| The impasse is encouraging hard-line Unionists to target the rule as a critical flaw of the reforms they oppose. |
| So if all the studios but one want to give the union a better offer, that one holdout can add weeks or months to an impasse. |
| This U.S. military support, a remnant of America's Cold War containment policy, prevents China from using force to end the impasse. |
| The priest has met other churchmen to discuss the impasse, including 12 Presbyterian ministers from the north of the city. |
| It seemed that his death stood at the impasse of our days, unfittingly harbored in his ghostly life. |
