Example sentences for: deadlock

How can you use “deadlock” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • Wednesday, an Iraqi writer and former ambassador, Majed al-Samara'i, predicted another pointless American military assault on Iraq because of the long-running deadlock at the United Nations over the future of sanctions and disarmament measures against Iraq.

  • The WP says that right now, the most likely result of the fall House races will be a virtual deadlock between Democrats and Republicans--which would be, reminds the Post , a historic feat for the Democrats, since the president's party has picked up seats in a midterm election only once since the Civil War.

  • The Sunday papers placed the blame for the deadlock on Serbian President Slobodan Milosevic's intransigent refusal to countenance a NATO-led force as peacekeepers, despite the fact that Kosovo Albanians were holding out for a referendum on independence once the three year interim period covered by the proposed settlement expired.

  • By resolving the peace-and-security debate in Oslo's favor, Netanyahu made himself obsolete and broke the historic deadlock over the peace process."

  • The conservative Jerusalem Post led its front page with the warning by Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak, following his Cairo summit with King Hussein of Jordan and Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat, that the negotiations deadlock and Israel's plan to expand Jerusalem could ignite violence that might prove unstoppable.


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