Will the long stalemate between the Maghreb's two big rivals ever end?
Bring it on, say budget hawks: such a stalemate would mean reverting to the level of the 2010 budget.
My best guess is this fate awaits many products that offer halfway solutions-and this could be a turning point in resolving the TV-Web stalemate.
The only Arab country with a major, full-scale armed insurrection, it is not quite a stalemate as there is an ebb and flow dynamic to the conflict between pro- and anti-Gaddafi forces.
Thus, the present stalemate might continue for some time.
They could barricade parliament again, as they did last month, and generate a fresh stalemate.
We should certainly not disguise our own views. But a continued stalemate can, as Sir Winston Churchill has said, be preferable to a checkmate.
Even worse, a political stalemate over the debt limit could spark a financial crisis and necessitate immediate large cuts in government spending that would tip the economy back into recession.
His tricks will bring us into a stalemate.
After months of stalemate, the rebels put together a coordinated offensive that swept through Tripoli with surprising speed.
Yet now that the stalemate is resolved and the deal signed, uncertainty is still rife-because the polarisation that made the stand-off possible is as sharp as ever.
This may be the best way to break the stalemate.
But the correct lesson from the Bush years is that when there is stalemate in Palestine, or the fire is left untended, things do not remain the same.
The Russian front is at a stalemate.
As people begin to suspect that a military stalemate may last months, some are worrying that the self-appointed council may entrench itself with no accountability.
The political stalemate in Congress over finding funding to feed our children healthy food is outrageous.
None of this will be easy. But the present stalemate is bloodily leading nowhere.
So there is cautious optimism on both sides that peace talks will resume next month after a 16-month stalemate.
Negotiations have reached a stalemate.
Any solution [to Soviet economic malaise], however, is hostage to the crisis of authority, creating a catch-22 stalemate between perestroika and glasnost, between economics and politics: any measure to shore up the economy only fans public anger and reduces the authority of the Government.
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