Crossword clues for impasse
impasse
- Situation in which no progress is possible
- Setter's old-fashioned? That's an insurmountable difficulty!
- Setter is past prime coming to standstill
- Puck's old hat? Deadlock ensues …
- Progress hampered by setter repeatedly leading to deadlock
- Drive finishing early, blocked by one stupid dead end
- Deadlock: four leave showing no emotion
- Deadlock that is about fool supporting MP
- There's no way past it, Hoskins is old-hat
- There’s no getting around it — I’m old-fashioned
- The setter's old-fashioned situation offering no way out
- Dead end
- Mediator's challenge
- Negotiator's problem
- Uncompromising situation?
- There's no getting around it
- Stalemate in negotiations
- Going-nowhere situation
- At an --- (deadlocked)
- Full stop
- Catch-22 situation
- Deadlock
- Stalemated situation
- Negotiators' problem
- Roadblock
- Standoff
- Mediator's problem
- You can't escape from it
- A situation in which no progress can be made
- A street with only one way in or out
- Has-been's admission?
- Immovable object vs. irresistible force
- Blind alley
- Bottleneck
- Gridlock on motorway going west - go east
- Gold metal picked up with information indicating another element
- One politician taking on stupid European in stalled debate?
- Stalemate situation
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Impasse \Im`passe"\ ([a^]N`p[aum]s"; E. [i^]m*p[.a]s"), n. [F.] An impassable road or way; a blind alley; cul-de-sac; fig., a position or predicament affording no escape.
The issue from the present impasse will, in all
probability, proceed from below, not from above.
--Arnold
White.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1851, "blind alley," from French impasse "impassable road, blind alley, impasse," from assimilated form of in- "not, opposite of" (see in- (1)) + Middle French passe "a passing," from passer "to pass" (see pass (v.)). Supposedly coined by Voltaire as a euphemism for cul de sac. Figurative use also from 1851.
Wiktionary
n. 1 a road with no exit; a cul-de-sac 2 a deadlock or stalemate situation in which no progress can be made
WordNet
n. a situation in which no progress can be made or no advancement is possible; "reached an impasse on the negotiations" [syn: deadlock, dead end, stalemate, standstill]
a street with only one way in or out [syn: blind alley, cul de sac, dead-end street]
Wikipedia
Impasse is a 1969 American film about a group of adventurers trying to recover gold lost in the Philippines during World War II. It stars Burt Reynolds, Anne Francis, Vic Diaz, Lyle Bettger and Rodolfo Acosta
A bargaining impasse occurs when the two sides negotiating an agreement are unable to reach an agreement and become deadlocked. 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.
Some theorists contend that impasses are used by negotiating parties in situations of imperfect information as a method of signalling to the other side the seriousness of their position. Impasse provides a credible signal that a party’s position is genuine and not merely an ambit claim.
Impasse may also arise if parties suffer from self-serving bias. Most disputes arise in situations where facts are able to be interpreted in multiple ways, and if parties interpret the facts to their own benefit they may be unable to accept the opposing party’s claim as reasonable. They may believe the other side is either bluffing or acting unfairly and deserves to be "punished".
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. Indeed, compulsory arbitration following impasse is a common feature of industrial relations law in the United States and elsewhere.
The word impasse may also refer to any situation in which no progress can be made.
Usage examples of "impasse".
There was Gecko, who lived in a little garret close by in the Impasse des Ramoneurs, and who was second violin in the orchestra of the Gymnase, and shared his humble earnings with his master, to whom, indeed, he owed his great talent, not yet revealed to the world.
Of course our good king who was not king yet had reputation enough, but Meith had arrogance to match, so they were at an impasse.
He could not understand how he had failed, save all had been some weird, oneiric design to bring them to this impasse.
Three of these products of the human brain, however, remained unneutralized and in large part accounted for the impasse at which the hostile armies found themselves.
Although it would be hard to explain the properties of a tornado in terms of the physics of electrons and quarks, I see this as a matter of calculational impasse, not an indicator of the need for new physical laws.
Kennedy made his first call to the governor to try to charm Barnett out of the impasse.
With what Herm regarded as enormous courage, these men and women had voted against their own majority on a critical defense bill, effectively destroying it, and bringing both the Senate and the Chamber to an impasse.
They counterproposed chicken, but then an impasse was reached when the Cubans insisted it be boiled and served with black beans.
When the method is successful, it culminates in the questioner (usually Socrates) catching the answerer in a contradiction or in an argumentative impasse.
An impasse occurs when the answerer sees the problems with or the errors in his thinking and sees that he can progress no farther in the argument until he redefines his terms or even denies his original claim.
Ideally, however, the answerer can find a way out of the impasse and discover a truth.
They were at an impasse, each controlled by a horse, their special powers canceling each other out.
The Chlorine-36 rock-exposure dating technique mentioned in Chapter Six, for example, looks like a particularly promising means of resolving the impasse over the antiquity of the Pyramids and the Sphinx.
Finally Captain Park said, “You’ve probably guessed we have an impasse here, Apprentice Vinh.
So I told him about the impasse we'd reached, Thrower and I, on the subject of sending in support when I went in to the rendezvous, and told him also that my DIF didn't seem to understand the way I worked, the way I had to work if I was to bring the mission home.