noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
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budget
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Because of the budget stalemate , the $ 175 million only became available in May, Lockhart said.
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The stepped-up Republican attack against Mr Rubin only heightened investors' concern over the budget stalemate in Washington.
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Stocks sold off sharply amid fears of disappointing earnings in the technology sector as well as continued concerns over the budget stalemate .
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The partial government shutdown derived from the budget stalemate will reach three weeks this Friday.
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Traders pointed to the federal budget stalemate and worries the gridlock could continue indefinitely.
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The added wrinkle of possible impeachment proceedings only heightened investors' concern over the budget stalemate in Washington.
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break
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These steps demonstrate a political will by Barak to break out of stalemate .
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Mitchell is consulting with the officials on a proposal by his three-member international panel to break the stalemate in peace negotiations.
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The invention of the tank and the aircraft broke through the defensive stalemate that had characterised the first world war.
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But hopes that Mr Freeman would break the stalemate were dashed.
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In the summer of 1557, some of them tried to break the stalemate .
reach
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We had reached a position of stalemate - but a position which for the sake of the Government had to be settled.
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The chess game reaches a very different stalemate in the case of the albatross.
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Only when they have reached stalemate with the bank will the ombudsman then consider a claim.
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By then, the war had again reached stalemate .
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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an attempt to break a stalemate in the Middle East peace process
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At that point the strike appeared to have reached a stalemate .
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Congress remains in a stalemate over the federal budget.
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It looks like the long-running dispute could end in stalemate .
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Negotiations with the 200 army rebels are at a stalemate .
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the stalemate in the three-month long pay dispute
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The proposal was aimed at ending the stalemate between environmentalist and business groups.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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All this has produced a dangerous stalemate .
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Also, a presidential system can so balance power between legislature and executive that there are damaging stalemates and confusion of accountability.
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Any conversation, even if it was only about food, was better than this stalemate .
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But at least the stalemate had been been broken.
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But the talks themselves were a virtual stalemate .
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The cultural patterns themselves are influenced by the structural instability and the cultural stalemate .
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We had reached a position of stalemate - but a position which for the sake of the Government had to be settled.