Synonym: dead end, deadlock, impasse, standstill. Similar words: stale, mathematics, gentleman, female, tale, talent, schematic, crematory. Meaning: ['steɪlmeɪt] 
n. 1. a situation in which no progress can be made or no advancement is possible 2. drawing position in chess: any of a player's possible moves would place his king in check. v. subject to a stalemate.
n. 1. a situation in which no progress can be made or no advancement is possible 2. drawing position in chess: any of a player's possible moves would place his king in check. v. subject to a stalemate. 
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1. The talks reached stalemate.
2. The talks ended in stalemate.
3. Discussions are locked in stalemate.
4. The strike has once again reached stalemate.
5. The stalemate in the trade talks continues.
6. The discussions with the miners' union ended in stalemate .
7. President Bush has ended the stalemate over moves to cut the country's budget deficit.
8. Efforts to break the stalemate in the peace talks continue.
9. Negotiations have reached stalemate.
10. All this has produced a dangerous stalemate.
11. But at least the stalemate had been been broken.
12. By then, the war had again reached stalemate.
13. Congress remains in a stalemate over the federal budget.
14. But the talks themselves were a virtual stalemate.
15. Some of the negotiators, however, said the stalemate over the issue of punitive damages seemed especially intractable.
16. Hence the stalemate between the two camps, the Deterrers and the Disarmers, which is still the position.
17. However, if a stalemate occurs, then new elections would seem to be in the offing.
18. The chess game reaches a very different stalemate in the case of the albatross.
19. But the painful stalemate wrought on this issue by divided government in Washington compelled a new approach.
20. Only when they have reached stalemate with the bank will the ombudsman then consider a claim.
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21. Because of the budget stalemate, the $ 175 million only became available in May, Lockhart said.
22. Portsmouth soon equalised and a stalemate followed in the second half, although Alton had some good chances.
23. Tomorrow's meeting between the two leaders is expected to break a diplomatic stalemate that has lasted for ten years.
24. Exploratory discussions between management and the unions have ended in stalemate.
25. Despite long discussions, the workers and the management remain locked in stalemate.
26. It looks like the long-running dispute could end in stalemate.
27. All of these qualities, when duly accounted for, amounted to a virtual condition of stalemate between the opposing forces.
28. In the summer of 1557, some of them tried to break the stalemate.
29. The stepped-up Republican attack against Mr Rubin only heightened investors' concern over the budget stalemate in Washington.
30. That same year, the 100-member House voted for outright repeal, causing a General Assembly stalemate.
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