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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.