After the first two matches ended in stalemate and the Third Test at Old Trafford never started due to rain.

The war ended in stalemate and a tense family reconciliation in England at the end of 1184.

Philip moved south to meet John ; the year's campaigning ended in stalemate and a two-year truce was made between the two rulers.

The war ended in armistice and stalemate in 1953.

Though the war ended in a stalemate, it closed with the Battle of Cheron, which was a decisive Earth victory.

Long ago, their war ended more or less in a stalemate, when Ceiphied was able to split Shabranigdo's existence into seven pieces in order to prevent him from coming back to life, then sealing them within human souls.

The bloody eight-year war ended in a stalemate.

The Dinobots fought Shockwave, a battle that ended in permanent stalemate when Snarl brought down the mountain that Shockwave stood upon, knocking all of them into a tar pit.

The Great Compromise ended the stalemate between “ patriots ” and “ nationalists ”, leading to numerous other compromises in a spirit of accommodation.

The year ended with something approaching a stalemate in Germany.

In an influential broadcast on February 27, newsman Walter Cronkite stated that the war was a " stalemate " and could be ended only by negotiation.

Both sides incurred heavy losses and the battle ended in stalemate after Rupert's cavalry returned to stop a rout.

Furthermore, on their way north through Roncevaux an ambush attempt took place that ended in stalemate, due to the greater precautions taken by the Franks, i. e. Basque women and children taken as hostages.

The battle ended in a tactical stalemate between the two ironclad warships, neither of which appeared capable of sinking the other, but strategically saved the remaining Union fleet from defeat.

The battle, which ended in stalemate, included a brutal 20-hour struggle over a section of the Confederate defenses that became known as the " Bloody Angle ".

The stalemate ended, Giles and Faith rally the reluctant townspeople against the coming vampires, telling them if they want to live, they'll have to fight.

On September 5, Kasa-Vubu dismissed Lumumba but the prime minister refused to accept this and in turn announced Kasa-Vubu's dismissal, creating a stalemate that was only ended on September 14 with army commander Joseph Mobutu's seizure of power and arrest of Lumumba.

McClellan refused Burnside's requests for reinforcements, and the battle ended in a tactical stalemate.

After the war ended in a stalemate between North and South Korea and with the two nations ' borders were roughly established back to the 38th parallel, Primorsky Krai became the site of extreme security concern for the Soviet Union during the Cold War.

Popular CBS anchor Walter Cronkite stated during a news broadcast on February 27, " We have been too often disappointed by the optimism of the American leaders, both in Vietnam and Washington, to have faith any longer in the silver linings they find in the darkest clouds " and added that, " we are mired in a stalemate that could only be ended by negotiation, not victory.

There were no decisive engagements, and the war ended in a stalemate.

The stalemate ended shortly after Bowie led a charge to seize one of the Mexican cannons, at that time only 80 yards ( 73 m ) away.

The parliamentary stalemate was ended by the dissolution of parliament and early elections in 1972, which brought great gains to the Social Democrats and enabled the coalition to continue.

In the second instance, Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif was reinstated as Prime Minister by the Supreme Court, but the resulting stalemate ended with the resignations of both Ghulam Ishaq Khan and Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif to the Parliament of Pakistan.

Perhaps in response to Hamilcar's raids, Rome did build another fleet paid for with donations from wealthy citizens and it was that fleet which rendered the Carthaginian success in Sicily futile, as the stalemate Hamilcar produced in Sicily became irrelevant following the Roman naval victory at the Battle of the Aegates Islands in 241 BC, where the new Roman fleet under consul Gaius Lutatius Catulus was victorious over an undermanned and hastily built Carthaginian fleet.

The actions of Hamilcar, and his immunity to defeat, plus the stalemate at the siege of Lilybaeum caused the Romans to start building a fleet in 243 BC to seek a decision at sea.

This resulted in a stalemate for the rest of 496 BC and 495 BC.

The disaster at Pedasus seems to have created a stalemate in the land campaign, and there was apparently little further campaigning in 496 BC and 495 BC.

This resulted in a stalemate for the rest of 496 and 495 BC.

In 204 BC, Liu Bang was trapped by Xiang Yu in Xingyang and both sides reached a stalemate.

There was a stalemate for five months until November 262 BC when supplies began to run out in Agrigentum.

After Athens invaded Sicily in 415 BC, a Spartan fleet arrived to reinforce their allies in Syracuse, with a stalemate ensuing.

The war ended in an effective stalemate, and was renewed in 201 BC, when Philip V invaded Asia Minor.

The stalemate on St. Kitts proved unresolvable when the CCM in Nevis refused to form a coalition with PAM.

A stalemate persisted, with regular exchanges of cannon fire, until September 21, when 100 Hessians, returning from the Mohawk Valley to support Burgoyne, arrived on the scene to provide reinforcement to the besieged fort.

A stalemate occurs when, for the player with the move:

The simultaneous Battle of Artemisium was up to that point a stalemate ; however, when news of Thermopylae reached them, the Allied fleet also retreated, since holding the straits of Artemisium was now a moot point.

Massot served a writ, leading to a period of stalemate which was finally broken when Grant and Led Zeppelin's lawyer Steve Weiss agreed to pay Massot the money he was owed, after which he delivered the film to the band.

The First Intifada came when Palestinians were protesting against Israeli acts that they regarded as brutal and when there was a political stalemate between parties involved in the Arab – Israeli conflict.

Mining saw a brief resurgence as a military tactic during the First World War, when army engineers attempted to break the stalemate of trench warfare by tunneling under no man's land and laying large quantities of explosives beneath the enemy's trench.

" Continuous Cut " refers to when you are again faced with stalemate within a duel, where your swords are clasped together.

After the arrival of General George Washington two weeks after the battle, the siege reached a stalemate until March the next year, when cannon seized at the Capture of Fort Ticonderoga were positioned on Dorchester Heights in a deft night manoeuvre.

It acts as a guide in horary astrology when there is a stalemate.

The simultaneous Battle of Artemisium, consisting of a series of naval encounters, was up to that point a stalemate ; however, when news of Thermopylae reached them, they also retreated, since holding the straits of Artemisium was now a moot point.

The artillery piece inflicted a number of casualties on the small group, killing the company commander, and a stalemate ensued until 10: 00 when the enemy garrison surrendered after being subjected to mortar bombardment for several hours.

The stalemate lasted until 25 February, when Sir Anthony Lucy arrested the earl at Carlisle Castle.

Draws are codified by various rules of chess including stalemate ( when the player to move has no legal move and is not in check ), threefold repetition ( when the same position occurs three times with the same player to move ), and the fifty-move rule ( when the last fifty successive moves made by both players contain no capture or pawn move ).

The word " stalemate " is also used for a metaphor when a conflict has reached an impasse and resolution seems difficult or impossible, i. e. a no-win situation.

The simultaneous Battle of Artemisium, consisting of a series of naval encounters, was up to that point a stalemate ; however, when news of Thermopylae reached them, they also retreated, since holding the straits of Artemisium was now a moot point.

The resulting stalemate lasted until the afternoon, when the English sent longbowmen forward to harass the Scottish lines.

In September, 1915, when the Suvla front became a stalemate, the division was moved to Salonika where it remained for two years.