31.   In desperation Monday, loya jirga chairman Ismail Qasimyar called on Karzai to address the assembly and break the impasse.

32.   In many ways, Holbrooke, who spent weeks last year courting Congress to break the impasse over back dues, told the senators what they wanted to hear.

33.   Israeli political and military officials insisted on Tuesday that they see a way to break the impasse.

34.   It broke the impasse between the Republicans and the Democrats, and gave the Republicans the upper hand.

35.   It can also break an impasse holding up a marriage.

36.   It is vitally important, both for U.S. interests and for the future of impoverished nations around the world, that Bush now break that impasse.

37.   Israeli political and military officials insisted Tuesday that they saw a way to break the impasse.

38.   It was only Thursday night that legislators broke an impasse that lasted for months on the business-tax overhaul.

39.   Julius K. Nyerere, the former Tanzanian president who is the architect of the regional embargo, has been unable to break the impasse.

40.   Moreover, if the Chinese leadership is divided, neither Jiang nor Li may have the ability to break the impasse.