stalemated
IPA: stˈeɪɫmeɪtɪd
adjective
- at a complete standstill because of opposition of two unrelenting forces or factions
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Examples of "stalemated" in Sentences
- Super-majority politics empower ideological extremists and lead to stalemated policy and inaction.
- The vampires and Cedar Creek are stalemated, but that doesn't stop the Sheriff from taking his revenge.
- But there was no 'emergancy' so spending did not increase to any serious degree because the gov't stalemated.
- In this game, two players take turns accumulating points by capturing tokens while avoiding being "stalemated".
- From a humanitarian perspective, Western involvement has stalemated the struggle as Libya barrels down the path towards protracted civil war.
- General David McKiernan [US Commander in Afghanistan] recently described the war in Afghanistan as "stalemated" particularly in the Southern parts of the country.
- For more than a century, since Francis Galton first started speculating about the similarities of twins, nature-nurture was a war with a stalemated front and intelligence was its Verdun—the most hotly contested and costly battle.
- The top U.S. commander in Afghanistan offered a grim view Wednesday of military efforts in southern Afghanistan, warning that 17,000 new troops will take on emboldened Taliban insurgents who have "stalemated" U.S. and allied forces.
- To American eyes he was indistinguishable from any other middle-aged peasant, and American efforts to catch him—such as orders to “arrest every fat Filipino of about forty years and hold until identification is proven”—were unsuccessful.7 Throughout 1900, Malvar and his partisans stalemated American efforts to pacify Batangas and impose colonial government.
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