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Iraq's government is at a stalemate. -- Mowaffak al-Rubaie
Courage is in the air in bracing whiffs Better than all the stalemate an's and ifs. -- Robert Frost
It seems now more certain than ever that the bloody experience of Vietnam is to end in a stalemate, -- Walter Cronkite
It takes a vice to check a vice, and virtue is the by-product of a stalemate between opposite vices. -- Eric Hoffer
I will not vote to send my sons, or your sons, daughters, brothers, sisters or friends to fight for a stalemate. -- Rand Paul
Man the sum of what have you. A problem in impure properties carried tediously to an unvarying nil: stalemate of dust and desire. -- William Faulkner
Money no longer has any meaning. Civilization is coming to an end. If not the destruction of the world, it's an endless stalemate. -- Stephen Fry
This administration is doing everything we can to end the stalemate in an efficient way. We're making the right decisions to bring the solution to an end. -- George W. Bush
I don't think any movie or any book or any work of art can solve the stalemate in the Middle East today. But it's certainly worth a try. -- Steven Spielberg
The important prediction is not the automobile, but the parking problem; not radio, but the soap opera; not the income tax, but the expense account; not the Bomb, but the nuclear stalemate -- Isaac Asimov
Technically, the last number of years, partially from the injury, it's been difficult to push forward but I felt even before the injury that I still could do more and was sort of at a stalemate. -- Elvis Stojko
In 1953, after the armistice ending the Korean War, South Korea lay in ruins. President Eisenhower was eager to put an end to hostilities that had left his predecessor deeply unpopular, and the war ended in an uneasy stalemate. -- Noah Feldman
The draw by stalemate looks like a spot of discontinuity in the otherwise harmonious universe of values. To save a game by letting yourself be so completely humiliated as not being able to make a move looks rather undeserved. -- Mihail Marin
At some point you do not need to talk to have a conversation. The conversation exists whether you have it or not. It continues silently in a parallel dimension of the marriage. They both pause to let it run its course toward another stalemate. -- Chris Bachelder
Truman left in the middle of an unpopular war, a war of choice. Truman didn't have to go into South Korea. And he was reviled and ridiculed for the stalemate that resulted. Now, he's seen as one of the great presidents of the 20th century. -- Charles Krauthammer
Diplomats operate through deadlock, which is the way by which two sides can test each other's determination. Even if they have egos for it few heads of government have the time to resolve stalemates, their meetings are too short and the demands of protocol too heavy. -- Henry A. Kissinger
It was designed to have an impact on the stalemate over Mutually Assured Destruction with the Soviet Union. Us reaching the moon convinced Gorbachev and other leaders that the Soviet Union couldn't compete with the U.S., so they revised their agenda. But people have short memories. -- Buzz Aldrin
Well, I would - if they realized that we - again if - if we led them back to that stalemate only because our retaliatory power, our seconds, or strike at them after our first strike, would be so destructive they they couldn't afford it, that would hold them off. -- Ronald Reagan
His fingers slide into my hair, and I hold on to his arms to stay steady as we press together like two blades at a stalemate. He is stronger than anyone I know, and warmer than anyone else realizes; he is a secret that I have kept, and will keep for the rest of my life. -- Veronica Roth
Out of these troubled times, our fifth objective - a New World Order - can emerge. . . Now, we can see a New World Order coming into view. A world in which there is a very real prospect for a New World Order. . .A world where the United Nations, freed from a Cold War stalemate, is poised to fulfill the historic vision of its founders. -- George H. W. Bush
Could Afghanistan become another Vietnam? Is the United States facing another stalemate on the other side of the world? Premature the questions may be, three weeks after the fighting began. Unreasonable they are not, given the scars scoured into the national psyche by defeat in Southeast Asia. For all the differences between the two conflicts, and there are many, echoes of Vietnam are unavoidable. -- R. W. Apple
At the same time, old confrontations have taken on frightening urgency, especially the India-Pakistan conflict over Kashmir and the violent stalemate in the Middle East. Progress on these and other global challenges requires us to develop a larger strategy for American foreign policy, rooted in a fundamental commitment to move the world from interdependence to an integrated global community committed to peace and prosperity, freedom and security. -- William J. Clinton
Marriage, in my view, should be a balanced stalemate between equal adversaries. -- Elizabeth Peters
Marriage, in my view, should be a balanced stalemate between equal adversaries. -- Elizabeth Peters
Veneration of Mark Twain is one of the roots of our current intellectual stalemate. -- John Kennedy Toole
Dwight Eisenhower, the Republican nominee in 1952, made a strong public commitment to ending the war in Korea, where fighting had reached a stalemate. -- Robert Dallek
Everyone wants to be wanted and if all people wait for someone else to invest in them, the world will be stuck in an eternal stalemate: nobody moves and nobody wins. -- Laura L.
Man the sum of his climatic experiences Father said. Man the sum of what have you. A problem in impure properties carried tediously to an unvarying nil: stalemate of dust and desire. -- William Faulkner
I just can't vote to go to war unless I think there's a real clear-cut American purpose in the war, that we're going to win and that we're not going fight for stalemate. -- Rand Paul

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