1.   Congress exceeded its authority, the high court said, by giving tribes the right to file suit in federal court when tribal-state gambling negotiations deadlocked.

2.   Larson will meet tomorrow with Japanese Vice Transport Minister Hiromichi Toya for the first talks on the issue since negotiations deadlocked in August.

3.   An increasingly active Clinton has had to witness how an agreement is signed and negotiations deadlocked.

4.   But Israeli-Palestinian negotiations have deadlocked since the May election of hard-line Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.

5.   But Israeli-Palestinian negotiations have deadlocked since the election last May of hard-line Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.

6.   Negotiations deadlock on trade routes.

7.   Negotiations deadlocked over the conflicting positions for several days, while groups of people began emerging from the church, describing conditions of shortages of food and other hardships.

8.   Negotiations have long deadlocked over a lack of offers to dismantle trade barriers from major shipping countries.

9.   With just three days to go to deadline, negotiations have deadlocked amid growing certainty that India will not sign up.

10.   It was the first sign of any progress in the talks for several weeks after negotiations deadlocked amid anti-Israeli attacks and a crisis over the expansion of Jewish settlements.