Stalemate的意思|Stalemate的解释-里氏词典

stalemate ['stel`met]

n. 僵持状态, 僵局, 陷于困境, 胶着状况

vt. 将...逼和, 使僵持, 使陷入困境

stalemate

[ noun ]

a situation in which no progress can be made or no advancement is possible

<noun.state>

reached an impasse on the negotiations

drawing position in chess: any of a player's possible moves would place his king in check

<noun.event>

[ verb ]

subject to a stalemate

<verb.competition>

Stalemate \Stale"mate`\ (-m[=a]t`), n. (Chess)
The position of the king when he can not move without being
placed in check and there is no other piece which can be
moved.

Stalemate \Stale"mate`\, v. t. (Chess)
To subject to a stalemate; hence, to bring to a stand.

In New York City, the U.N. Security Council held consultations to end the stalemate over criticism of the violence in Jerusalem. But a vote was not expected Thursday.
After initial gains by the rebels, the battle for Jalalabad appears to have settled into a stalemate with casualties believed to number in the thousands on both sides.
Soviet troops spent nine years fighting the guerrillas to a stalemate before Moscow withdrew the last of them in February 1989.
"We're taking a fresh look," said one U.S. official, in light of the stalemate in fighting between the Mujahedeen and government forces since Soviet troops withdrew from Afghanistan Feb. 15.
Opposition leaders said Sunday they plan to introduce a bill calling for abolition of the tax, which could lead to a parliamentary stalemate because of the opposition's control of the upper house.
The sources said the secretary-general outlined his ideas for ending the stalemate over direct talks during in a meeting with the non-aligned members of the Security Council on Wednesday.
Breaking ranks somewhat with other Western leaders, Kohl last month proposed solving the Arab-Israeli conflicts and the Lebanese civil war along with the Persian Gulf stalemate.
But earlier this month there were contacts through intermediaries to see if the stalemate could be broken.
Traders in Tokyo said many investors were disappointed that Thursday's meeting between President Bush and Jordan's King Hussein failed to produce any breakthrough in the Iraqi stalemate.
While warning of possible new violence elsewhere, many observers predict an end to war in the coming decade in Mozambique, Ethiopia, Sudan and other embattled African countries as combatants fight to stalemate and exhaustion.
The budget stalemate cost the government $1.6 million when agencies shut down over the Columbus Day weekend earlier in October, the General Accounting Office said in a report.
The current round of talks, which began Aug. 19, ended in a stalemate Monday.
But faced with stalemate at the political level, Hungary aims to improve economic and trade links with the two countries.
Many Republicans contend that the Democrats have produced an atmosphere of confrontation and increasing partisanship that will lead to stalemate.
Then the conscript Afghan army rallied and the campaign settled into stalemate.
Vacationing Americans have been hardest hit so far by the budget stalemate, encountering "closed" signs at Montana's Custer Battlefield National Monument and locked gates at the White House.
Bush's signature then would trigger the first increase in the minimum wage since January 1981 and end an eight-year political stalemate between the majority Democrats in Congress and two successive Republican administrations.
Speaking with reporters as he finished a game of golf at the Houston Country Club on Saturday, Bush sought to minimize the stalemate with the Vatican over the fate of deposed Panamanian dictator Manuel Antonio Noriega.
The composite index weakened 8.09 to 762.53. Growing labour unrest, including a stalemate at Hyundai Motor, was a further cause for concern.
The stock market put together a broad rally Thursday, showing signs of life after the stalemate of the past few weeks.
I mean they keep hearing of this prolongation and that there'd be stalemate and all of this kind of thing.
Threats against Tawana Brawley may soon motivate the family to end a stalemate and begin cooperating with state prosecutors, according to a report published Wednesday.
I would ask now for John Major to end the stalemate.
The stalemate in the Afghanistan war is unraveling the political consensus that has characterized U.S. policy toward the embattled nation for the past 10 years.
CONNECTICUT Perhaps no governor has taken more personal abuse than Lowell P. Weicker Jr. of Connecticut, who forced the Legislature to adopt the state's first income tax this year after a 53-day stalemate and three vetoed budgets.
After weeks of stalemate and some creative scrutiny of Canada's cultural and tax benefit laws, a solution was found.
The trade talks, known as the Uruguay Round for the country where they were launched in 1986, have reached a virtual stalemate over the divisive farm issue.
As for stalemate, she says, "We've had soldiers stationed all over the world for many, many years; diplomatic stalemate is not necessarily a problem." A disagreeing view comes from Patrick Glynn, an arms control adviser in the Reagan administration.
As for stalemate, she says, "We've had soldiers stationed all over the world for many, many years; diplomatic stalemate is not necessarily a problem." A disagreeing view comes from Patrick Glynn, an arms control adviser in the Reagan administration.
Northeast Utilities plans to improve its $2 billion offer for PS of New Hampshire, sources said, perhaps ending the stalemate over the company's Chapter 11 proceedings.

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