stalemate 的 3 个定义
- Chess. a position of the pieces in which a player cannot move any piece except the king and cannot move the king without putting it in check.
- any position or situation in which no action can be taken or progress made; deadlock: Talks between union and management resulted in a stalemate.
stale·mat·ed, stale·mat·ing.
- to subject to a stalemate.
- to bring to a standstill.
stale·mat·ed, stale·mat·ing.
- to be or result in a stalemate or standoff: Negotiations stalemated when new salary demands were introduced.
stalemate 近义词
deadlock
更多stalemate例句
- Even if they do break the stalemate, it’s unclear whether the PUA will be extended.
- Senate Republicans are set to vote on their own legislation this week for another round of stimulus amid a stalemate on Capitol Hill over what the next package should look like.
- If the stalemate continues, the hardest-hit states may have to start taking aggressive measures very soon.
- After several years of stalemates, Netflix has opened up a dominant lead over rival HBO in Emmy nominations.
- Which is why GE is looking to the future to break the stalemate.
- And finally, there is the fact that most of the culture wars have reached a stalemate.
- By late August it looked like stalemate was almost certainly the tragic outcome of the years of war.
- There are thought pieces on the inevitable outcome of Twitter fights (likely a stalemate, depending on who you read).
- Webb believes he is just the sort of centrist leader who can break the Democrat-Republican stalemate in Washington.
- Coup attempts in the past have failed to do much more than add to chaos before a return to an uneasy stalemate.
- Along the Italian front the summer had developed something of the same kind of stalemate that had existed in France.
- However, at least for the moment, he had reached a stalemate.
- What is needed, therefore, is some hint or lead which will break this stalemate.
- A stalemate existed between them in this strange battle, the like of which Ross's world had not known before.
- Just how long that stalemate would have lasted they were not to know for another player came on the board.