1.   Officials have shown ignorance of the fact that locking their countries into trade rules can have unforeseen consequences.

2.   The country is locked in a power struggle between forces favouring and opposing change.

3.   The two countries are locked in a virtual state of war.

4.   The country is locked in a debate about civility, or the lack thereof, in society.

5.   The two countries have been locked in a war of words in recent months, with the tone escalating as the crisis here has deepened.

6.   Continued uncertainty in South Asia has the rival countries locked into a costly arms race that has expanded to include ballistic missiles.

7.   Disagreements remain, but the two countries are not locked in any headline-grabbing trade fight.

8.   Failure to find such a balance will cause our country to be locked in pseudo-stability that in the long run will eat away the creative potential of the nation.

9.   Now the two countries are locked in a trade dispute after Washington imposed steep tariff on New Zealand lamb imports to protect local producers.