1.   It is inevitable that the lawyers will reach deadlock in their negotiations over the detailed terms in the purchase and sale agreement.

2.   The strike appeared to have reached a deadlock.

3.   City councilors reached a deadlock over the law.

4.   The PCC considered that the dialogue with the USA had reached deadlock and that the PLO should seek other ways of dealing with Washington from a stronger negotiating position.

5.   The move to hold a referendum on the possibility of a split into separate Czech and Slovak republics also reached deadlock.

6.   After the government agreed to the terms, the kidnappers changed their demands and the situation reached a deadlock, the source said.

7.   After reaching a deadlock Thursday night, delegation chairmen convened again Friday morning, but bargained past midnight with hardly a break.

8.   Attempts to bring the Serbian government and Kosovo Albanians to open talks on the status of the restive southern province have reached a deadlock.

9.   But attempts to negotiate a solution have reached a deadlock.

10.   But attempts to bring the two sides to negotiate have reached a deadlock.