It is important that a lawyer should leave no stone unturned even on minor points and harp on the same subject to achieve a break through in an impasse.
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Impasse
//ˈæmpɑːs//
Synonyms for "impasse" (59 found)
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40 translations across 21 languages.
Arabic
1 entries- مأزق noun (deadlock or stalemate situation)
Bulgarian
1 entries- безизходица noun (deadlock or stalemate situation)
Catalan
2 entries- atzucac noun (deadlock or stalemate situation)
- cul-de-sac noun (deadlock or stalemate situation)
Czech
2 entries- patová situace noun (deadlock or stalemate situation)
- slepá ulička noun (deadlock or stalemate situation)
Danish
1 entries- blindgyde noun (deadlock or stalemate situation)
Finnish
1 entries- umpikuja noun (deadlock or stalemate situation)
French
1 entries- impasse noun (deadlock or stalemate situation)
German
4 entries- Hängepartie noun (deadlock or stalemate situation)
- Patt noun (deadlock or stalemate situation)
- Pattsituation noun (deadlock or stalemate situation)
- Sackgasse noun (deadlock or stalemate situation)
Greek
1 entries- αδιέξοδο noun (deadlock or stalemate situation)
Hungarian
3 entries- holtpont noun (deadlock or stalemate situation)
- patthelyzet noun (deadlock or stalemate situation)
- zsákutca noun (deadlock or stalemate situation)
Italian
3 entries- cul de sac noun (deadlock or stalemate situation)
- impasse noun (deadlock or stalemate situation)
- vicolo cieco noun (deadlock or stalemate situation)
Japanese
1 entries- 行き詰まり noun (deadlock or stalemate situation)
Māori
1 entries- whakamāraritanga noun (deadlock or stalemate situation)
Polish
4 entries- impas noun (deadlock or stalemate situation)
- matnia noun (deadlock or stalemate situation)
- zastój noun (deadlock or stalemate situation)
- ślepa uliczka noun (deadlock or stalemate situation)
Portuguese
1 entries- impasse noun (deadlock or stalemate situation)
Russian
1 entries- тупи́к noun (deadlock or stalemate situation)
Serbo-Croatian
2 entries- ćorsokak noun (deadlock or stalemate situation)
- ћорсокак noun (deadlock or stalemate situation)
Spanish
4 entries- callejón sin salida noun (deadlock or stalemate situation)
- impasse noun (deadlock or stalemate situation)
- impás noun (deadlock or stalemate situation)
- punto muerto noun (deadlock or stalemate situation)
Swedish
2 entries- död punkt noun (deadlock or stalemate situation)
- dödläge noun (deadlock or stalemate situation)
Thai
1 entries- ทางตัน noun (deadlock or stalemate situation)
Vietnamese
1 entries- ngõ cụt noun (deadlock or stalemate situation)
Sample sentences
11 total sentences available.
We had our priorities, they had their preferences, and we came to an impasse.
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They have reached an impasse.
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We're at an impasse.
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