The 1841 – 42 legislative session, with Whigs having a majority in the House chamber and the Democrats a smaller majority in the Senate, was marked by an impasse over the election of Tennessee's two United States senators.

COP 6 negotiations resumed July 17 – 27, 2001, in Bonn, Germany, with little progress having been made in resolving the differences that had produced an impasse in The Hague.

After three days of British bombardment in which 350 bombs partially destroyed the cathedral, the Jesuit school and several civilian buildings, Vernon assumed the impasse in which he was and ordered the withdrawal day 21, leaving the Castle and Greenwich Windsord vessels in the vicinity with a mission to intercept a Spanish ship to approach.

If two tier 1 networks arrive at an impasse and discontinue peering with each other ( usually in a unilateral decision ), single-homed customers of each network will not be able to reach the customers of other networks.

Ultimately, the conflict between her devotion to the Church and the nursing profession, juxtaposed with her passionate Belgian patriotism and her love of her father ( killed by Nazi fighter planes while treating wounded ) bring her to an impasse, which serves as the dénouement of the novel.

Presently the Woodstock Board of Education is in the process of negotiating a new contract with the school, but negotiations have been at an impasse these last two years as the Woodstock Board of Education has been trying to get more financial control over Woodstock Academy, a school which is, as of 2009, is administered by itself with oversight by the state of Connecticut.

Reaching an impasse with the parent band, Crosby and Nash decided to re-activate their partnership, inaugurating the duo act Crosby & Nash, touring regularly, signing to ABC Records and producing two additional studio albums, Wind On The Water in 1975 and Whistling Down The Wire in 1976.

In the 110th Congress, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid compared the impasse over a bill to reform immigration with the mess created by the Cat in The Cat in the Hat.

Approved by both king and by the Witan, the Council of the Realm, he offered a way out of the impasse, a counter both to the Godwins and to William, and one with a legitimacy that could not be readily challenged.

Ward's most popular novel by far was the religious " novel with a purpose " Robert Elsmere, which portrayed the emotional conflict between the young pastor Elsmere and his wife, whose over-narrow orthodoxy brings her religious faith and their mutual love to a terrible impasse ; but it was the detailed discussion of the " higher criticism " of the day, and its influence on Christian belief, rather than its power as a piece of dramatic fiction, that gave the book its exceptional vogue.

The Estates-General reached an immediate impasse, debating ( with each of the three estates meeting separately ) its own structure rather than the nation's finances.

Due to the contract impasse, he missed an opportunity to play in his father's home country, Japan, as the Mighty Ducks opened the season with a two-game series against the Vancouver Canucks in Tokyo – an effort on the league's part to attract attention to the sport ahead of the Olympics.

When the public became aware of the impasse, and the Sultans refused to compromise with the government, Mahathir took the streets to demonstrate public support for his position in mass rallies.

Realizing that he was at a personal impasse, he referred the matter to the post commandant, who exclaimed, " My God, Mr. Bragg, you have quarreled with every officer in the army, and now you are quarreling with yourself!

The impasse continued while second-place Toronto and third-place Montreal played their semi-final, ending with Montreal winning on March 13.

The political impasse stalled Ministry of Education goals of replacing Zhuyin with pinyin to teach pronunciation in elementary school.

Jeanne lived with her husband Marcel in a hovel at 9 impasse Florimont, with no gas, water or electricity.

All three commissioners met with Talleyrand informally in March, but it was clear that the parties were at an impasse.

Following a referendum the previous year in which voters had overwhelmingly backed independence, in late 1965, with negotiations between the United Kingdom and Rhodesia at an impasse, Smith ( according to his autobiography Bitter Harvest ) had authorized a committee under Cabinet Secretary Gerald B. Clarke to look at historical independence declarations to come up with a suitable version for Rhodesia in the event of a UDI having to be declared.

The ILP had long been unwilling to merge forces with a doctrinaire Marxist organization such as the SDF, however, and unity negotiations had reached an impasse.

In response to the impasse, the rhetoric of development is now focusing on the issue of poverty, with the metanarrative of modernization being replaced by shorter term vision embodied by the Millennium Development Goals and the Human Development approach.

However, it was Wilson's uncompromising stance on reducing education spending that led to the budget impasse of 1992, leaving state workers without paychecks from July until September, when the California Supreme Court forced the Governor and the legislature to agree to terms that ended the sixty-three day stand-off.

Former Governor Ellis Arnall polled more than fifty thousad votes as a write-in cadidate, a factor which led to the impasse.

The only person who could crown Eustace was Archbishop Theobald, who may well have seen the coronation of Eustace only as a guarantee of further civil war after Stephen's death ; the Archbishop refused to crown Eustace without agreement from the current pope, Eugene III, and the matter reached an impasse.

Whatever " deals " may or may not have taken place, in formal legal terms, the election of 1876 was not decided by such acts, but by the official vote of Congress to accept the recommendations of the Electoral Commission they themselves had set up as a way out of the election impasse.

If the decision procedure just described is not able to determine a unique course of action, Soar may use different strategies, known as weak methods to solve the impasse.

This impasse reinforced the French and British commanders ' belief that to end the stalemate they needed a breakthrough ; while this desire may have been the main impetus behind the offensive, the timing and location were heavily influenced by a number of political and tactical factors.

An impasse is almost invariably mutually harmful, either as a result of direct action which may be taken such as a strike in employment negotiation or sanctions / military action in international relations, or simply due to the resulting delay in negotiating a mutually beneficial agreement.

As bargaining impasse is mutually harmful, it may be beneficial for the parties to accept binding arbitration or mediation to settle their dispute, or the state may impose such a solution.

The word impasse may also refer to any situation in which no progress can be made.

Gennette reflected upon these various systems, comparing them to the original tripartite arrangement: " its structure is somewhat superior to most of those that have come after, fundamentally flawed as they are by their inclusive and hierarchical taxonomy, which each time immediately brings the whole game to a standstill and produces an impasse "

Genette reflects upon these various systems, comparing them to the original tripartite arrangement: " its structure is somewhat superior to … those that have come after, fundamentally flawed as they are by their inclusive and hierarchical taxonomy, which each time immediately brings the whole game to a standstill and produces an impasse " ( 74 ).

An unyielding Rosas might have let the impasse continue for a decade or more ; but, Admiral Guillermo Brown made his talents amenable once again, forcing the French blockade to be lifted in 1841.

Some historians have suggested that the impasse on the selection of crown prince was part of the cause of the Wanli Emperor's withdrawal from daily government administration.

Several attempts have been made to resolve the issue, the most recent being the Ne ' eman Commission, but an impasse persists.

Nzinga's brother committed suicide following this diplomatic impasse, convinced that he would never have been able to recover what he had lost in the war.

Hoping to help resolve the contract impasse, he agreed to attend training camp without a contract, and purchased his own insurance as the team would not have been responsible financially if he suffered an injury.

Toward the end of 1945, when the competing plans for a national intelligence system were deadlocked, Souers ' views had come to the attention of the President, and he seems to have played a role in breaking the impasse.

Jellicoe eventually left the Foreign Office in March 1958, after marital difficulties had caused an impasse ( February 1958, Permanent Secretary Sir Derek Hoyar-Millar wrote ; ' You have a choice of ceasing your relationship with this lady Dunne or changing your job ').

There would have been an impasse in the band for the first time born out of taste ..."

In William Harmon ’ s A Handbook to Literature, for example, aporia is identified as “ a difficulty, impasse, or point of doubt and indecision ” while also noting that critics such as Derrida have employed the term to “ indicate a point of undecidability, which locates the site at which the text most obviously undermines its own rhetorical structure, dismantles, or deconstructs itself ” ( 39 ).

" In March 2007 Coulter again created controversy when she made an off-color joke: " I was going to have a few comments on the other Democratic presidential candidate John Edwards, but it turns out you have to go into rehab if you use the word " faggot ," so I'm kind of at an impasse, can't really talk about Edwards ..." Her comments triggered a campaign by a gay rights group and media watchdog to persuade mainstream media outlets to ban her shows and appearances.

Since 1954, the South Koreans have administered the islands but bickering on both sides involving nationalism and lingering historical acrimony has led to the current impasse.

In the United States, most of these policies have been implemented at the state level, due to the political impasse at the federal level.

As noted above, Israel, Egypt, and Jordan have resolved this impasse and have recognized international borders between these states.