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Example sentences for: stalemate

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The editorial encouraged Asian governments to press Myanmar to break its stalemate.
Pundits predicting a stalemate point out that (a) in an off-year Clinton won't be as eager to compromise as he was on welfare in 1996, and (b) House Democrats think a stalemate will work against the GOP during next year's congressional elections ( Capitol Gang's Al Hunt; NewsHour's Mark Shields; Late Edition's Steve Roberts; and This Week's George Stephanopoulos).
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.
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).
Now, even highly placed Clinton administration officials secretly subscribe to stalemate.