| There is thus far less likelihood of stalemates or draws forming in the game. |
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| Trench warfare also led to stalemates that triggered even more casualties from vermin and disease. |
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| Governments often need less pressure, since they find stalemates painful in themselves. |
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| The setbacks and prolonged stalemates of the past should therefore be avoided. |
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| It is a story of stalemates and slowdowns, but also of breakthroughs, compromises, trust and commitment. |
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| Taken together with goalless stalemates against Italy and Trinidad and Tobago, a win and two draws sufficed for a berth in the next stage. |
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| When such stalemates occur, BNP's bid notwithstanding, hostility is rarely an alternative. |
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| For their part, Juventus have welcomed Spanish teams 17 times and boast ten victories, five stalemates and just two defeats. |
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| They controlled slim majorities in parliament and got bogged down in bickering and stalemates. |
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| This prevents stalemates, and an external chairman of the board brings an independent voice to the family constellation. |
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| As a result of frequent political stalemates at the federal level, many regions have acted unilaterally in areas of concurrent jurisdiction. |
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| This reduction was agreed upon at the Fontainebleau European Council of 1984 after ten years of negotiations and frequent stalemates. |
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| Not allowing progress on any of them, on the other hand, would just prolong past stalemates. |
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| Output indicators were similarly favorable. gaps that did exist were due to political issues or stalemates, for the most part. |
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| Throughout my career, I have made sure that the stalemates were partially broken and that the organisations opened up more. |
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| The Canadian approach to water governance has produced a set of stalemates and policy gaps. |
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| The integrity-challenged King has been a courtroom star, fending off lawsuits and criminal indictments like a chess master who checkmates or at least stalemates all comers. |
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| All this may sound too good to be true judging from the stalemates found in multilateral disarmament efforts and the hurdles of the not-so-long-ago Cold War. |
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| A Confederations Cup meeting could very well be a very special encounter as one of football's greatest statistical stalemates between two of its biggest powers could be broken. |
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| Demobilization of children has already begun, despite the recurrent adjournment of the formal demobilization process due to stalemates in the political process. |
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| As for using tanks against guerilla warfare, most of the experts say that not only does it lead to stalemates and to escalation of the violence, but it is not necessary. |
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| In Group B, the two Koreas are wondering whether either team will be able to break the deadlock of draws in qualification for South Africa 2010, following stalemates in their three previous meetings. |
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| When it premièred, victory in the second world war was still fresh, the cold war was not yet terrifying and the swampy stalemates of Korea and Vietnam were still to come. |
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| While some countries entered a virtuous circle of reforms and economic progress, others remained trapped in vicious circles where stalemates on reforms and poor economic performance reinforced each other. |
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| Another war of stalemates, it ended with the status quo restored, after the threat of Persian intervention on behalf of the Spartans. |
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| There is general recognition that repeated references to the rules of procedure during the session sometimes culminate in endless discussions and stalemates and waste precious Commission time. |
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| Under our system, flexible-date elections are the means by which parliamentary deadlocks and stalemates are resolved and majority support restored. |
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| He had an excellent career: 126 successes, ten defeats and six stalemates. |
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| Three points famously proved sufficient for Italy at Spain 1982, when Enzo Bearzot's troops laboured through the group stage with stalemates against Poland, Peru and Cameroon. |
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