Example sentences of "at an impasse " in BNC.

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1 When it poured down incessantly he saw only too clearly how he had got stuck , was at an impasse , handicapped as he was in so many respects .
2 It is clear that the Soviet economy is at an impasse , but we have tried to suggest that it is not at the abyss .
3 Maybe that was why he had left things unresolved , their talk at an impasse .
4 ‘ Then it seems we 're at an impasse until … ’ began Rohmer .
5 The apparent settlement had followed the intervention of the Governor-General , who had threatened , when the negotiations were at an impasse on March 15 , that he would use his powers to appoint a Prime Minister and to call another election .
6 Mohamed Moada , leader of the small opposition Mouvement des démocrates socialistes ( MDS ) , commented in relation to the triumph of Islamic fundamentalists in the Algerian elections on June 12 [ see p. 37549 ] that " if we do not solve the Islamic problem , the political process will remain at an impasse " .
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