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Situation allowing no progress
Answer for the clue "Situation allowing no progress ", 8 letters:
deadlock
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Word definitions for deadlock in dictionaries
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
"complete standstill," from dead (adj.), in its emphatic use, + lock (n.). First attested 1779 in Sheridan's play "The Critic."
Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
Deadlock is a 1970 West German spaghetti western directed by Roland Klick . It is perhaps best known today for the soundtrack supplied by Can . It is found on the 1970 Can album Soundtracks .
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 1 A standstill resulting from the opposition of two evenly matched forces; a stalemate or impasse 2 (context computing English) An inability to continue due to two programs or devices each requiring a response from the other before completing an operation ...
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
deadlock \dead"lock`\, n. A lock which is not self-latching, but requires a key to throw the bolt forward. A counteraction of things, which produces an entire stoppage; a complete obstruction of action. Things are at a deadlock. --London Times. The Board ...
Usage examples of deadlock.
The messenger who brought the letter, however, got mildly drunk in Sanly Bowitts and expressed his own opinion of the affair: either the cardinals would all appoint conclavists and go home for the winter, leaving a hopeless deadlock, or would elect an ill old man who could be expected to die before settling any real problems.
I was then released from deadlock status and lived for a time as a regular prisoner in Cellblock 1 on the fourth tier.
Immediately, instabilities arose among the simulated cores, insoluble disagreements throwing them into deadlock.
In the event of a tie, the speaker, a nonvoting member, was empowered to break the deadlock.
After the reapportionment made pursuant to the 1930 census, deadlocks between the Governor and legislature in several States, produced a series of cases in which the right of the Governor to veto a reapportionment bill was questioned.
In the deadlock Piccolomini was elected, taking the name Pius III in honor of his uncle, the former Aeneas Sylvius Piccolomini, who had been Pius II.
THE DEADLOCK IN DARWINISM--PART III Now let me return to the recent division of biological opinion into two main streams--Lamarckism and Weismannism Both Lamarckians and Weismannists, not to mention mankind in general, admit that the better adapted to its surroundings a living form may be, the more likely it is to outbreed its compeers.
He undid the large, five-lever deadlock first, then the equivalent of a Yale lock, and pushed the door open for me.
It appeared that the deadlock between the rebels and those loyal to the President was still being maintained, with the rebels holding the poor northside areas and the loyalists the wealthier city centre.
There had come to be a deadlock in affairs, during which neither of the two old and recognised leaders of parties could command a sufficient following for the carrying on of a government.
He bluffed the deadlock without turning a hairsmiled calmly at it and asked it to play ballbecause that was the only thing to do.
The panel did manage to convict Judge Harvey Shenberg and ex-judge David Goodhart, while painfully acquitting Judge Al Sepe of most charges and deadlocking on others.
Through the bias in our Instrument to do this, through reasoning between terms not in the same plane, an enormous amount of confusion, perplexity and mental deadlocking occurs.
The Anasati heir could refuse to support Minwanabi and Acoma both, deadlocking the High Council.
Under the present rules I decide deadlocks, which gives me control as long as George sticks by me.