Words similar to stalemate

Example sentences for: stalemate

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

A 500,000-student trial of publicly funded school vouchers, accompanied by an increase in traditional school spending, could break the stalemate in the education debate.
The LAT Chernomyrdin story emphasizes in its headline and in its text right from the first paragraph his view that fascism awaits if Russia's political stalemate continues.
Examples of the last include spill the beans, square the circle, stalemate , etc.
As for stalemate , which is related to checkmate , would it not have been important to indicate that the - mate part has nothing to do with English, having been borrowed from checkmate which is a loanword from Persian (and has nothing to do with check , either).
The result is a complex stalemate.