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Definitionn. a situation in which no progress can be made or no advancement is possible
Last update: October 12, 2015
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While playing chess we reached a stage of stalemate. [Please select]
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The two parties have reached a stalemate over the Kashmir issue. [Please select]
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FIRST ANNOUNCER: The nation, haunted by the stalemate in Korea, looks to Eisenhower. [Please select]
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The rebels ' defeat sealed the stalemate in Iraq that has impoverished that society and poisoned world politics to this day. [Please select]
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That the position of affairs had become one virtually of stalemate was fairly evident to all authorities on the side of the Entente before the end of May. [Please select]
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Again, to English eyes, the war in America approached a stalemate. [Please select]
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] In 1823 the struggle seemed to be lapsing into stalemate. [Please select]
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Blythe, when it became apparent that the long battle of the Aisne had resulted in a stalemate. [Please select]
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Yet this belief in stalemate in essence still postulated an ultimate Southern victory, for the function of the Confederacy was, after all, to _resist_ until its independence was recognized. [Please select]
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Resolved to avert stalemate by the only possible means, he had applied in the course of 1823 to Mohammed Ali Pasha of Egypt, a more formidable, though more distant, satrap than Ali of Yannina himself. [Please select]
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