impasse

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• His first book, “The Music Lesson,” published in 2006, is narrated by a young bass player at a creative impasse — skilled, but easily frustrated, and more easily impressed.

• K-8 students were slated to return last week, but the city pushed the date back repeatedly as it faced an impasse with the teachers union, and feared opening without enough staff.

• Amid the back-and-forth, both camps made efforts to avoid addressing head-on the looming possibility that the impasse could escalate into a strike.

• Almost a decade later, after years of incredibly hard work in relative isolation, he found a way around the impasse and proved the experts wrong.

• In a political environment less hostile to Beijing, Congress may have pressured the SEC to take action on the auditing impasse “in a more gradual manner,” rather than through a law of its own, Hirson said.

• And a coup probably would exacerbate the economic problems that months of friction, violence and impasse have wrought.

• And Kerry said that both Israeli and Palestinian leaders share the blame for the current impasse in the talks.

• We believe that we may be close to such an impasse, and we want to present the Commandant with options.

• For now, an impasse holds Ukraine in a limbo punctuated by violent outbursts.

• In the meantime, expect attitudes to harden—and the country to remain at impasse.