impasse
impasse
Definition
im·passe (im′pas′, im pas′)
impasse
Synonyms
impasse
Usage Examples
Converse of object
- resolve: Premier Tony Blair is now likely to be forced to step in to resolve the impasse.
- reach: However their work had reached an impasse be cause they were not able to produce enough enzyme for use in further studies.
- overcome: Attempts were made however to try to overcome the apparent impasse.
- break: They have got to break the impasse on this.
- solve: But solving the current impasse requires a constructive contribution from the Government.
- end: Such an agreement should remain a goal, but is not essential for ending the current impasse.
Preposition: at
- moment: The impasse at the moment is the stand-down time between midnight and 0700 hrs.
Preposition: between
- view: The contrast reflects an impasse between two world views which underlies much of what is going on at the World Summit ( WSSD ).
Adjective modifier
- apparent: Attempts were made however to try to overcome the apparent impasse.
- current: There are several possible ways of moving past the current impasse on CD work, none of them easy.
- present: At the heart of the present impasse is US planning for national missile defense.
- political: On the positive side, his proposal would not only provide an avenue out of a political impasse.
- constitutional: This led to a constitutional impasse which could be resolved only by another election which took place in December 1910.
Noun used with modifier
- CD: The CD impasse on the fissban is holding up disarmament and bringing embarrassment to multilateral arms control, non-proliferation and disarmament.
Preposition: in
- conference: We are greatly dismayed at the continued impasse in the Conference on Disarmament.
- theory: All the more so since it suggests how best to overcome the present impasse in historical theory.
Preposition: of
- capitalism: The attempt to move in the direction of capitalism in Russia coincides with the impasse of capitalism on a world scale.
- regime: Given the impasse of the present pro-bourgeois regime in Russia, what is likely to happen?
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