(n.) A lock which is not self-latching, but requires a key to throw the bolt forward.
(n.) A counteraction of things, which produces an entire stoppage; a complete obstruction of action.
Example Sentences:
(1) To a large extent, the failure has been a consequence of a cold war-style deadlock – Russia and Iran on one side, and the west and most of the Arab world on the other – over the fate of Bashar al-Assad , a negotiating gap kept open by force in the shape of massive Russian and Iranian military support to keep the Syrian regime in place.
(2) He said: "Of course there is a possibility of deadlock, of course there is a possibility people find it difficult to agree ... there may be deadlock but I do see a way through."
(3) Thatcher tried valiantly to persuade Reagan to exert pressure on the Israelis as a means to breaking the deadlock in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict but she was unsuccessful.
(4) With an out-of-session Congress deadlocked over immigration reform and right-wing lawmakers hell-bent on “sealing the border”, the White House faces intense pressure to do something – anything – about immigration, after years of burying a civil rights crisis in a mire of political tone-deafness and jingoistic bombast.
(5) Tsvangirai said today that the talks were deadlocked and called for Mbeki to intervene.
(6) This appears to be no longer true, and the attacks aren’t putting a dent in the polling deadlock.
(7) Such a coalition could break through the inertia and subterfuge now deadlocking the negotiations.
(8) The dollar fell after the S&P put the US on negative watch on Thursday night and warned it could move as early as this month if talks between the White House and Republicans on raising the government's $14.3tn (£8.9tn) borrowing limit remain deadlocked.
(9) With the Swedish courts last month rejecting an attempt by Assange's lawyers to quash the warrant for his arrest, Britain continuing to insist he will be arrested the instant he steps foot outside the building and the Australian refusing to budge, the situation has now reached political and legal deadlock.
(10) The original deadline for reaching a deal passed at 4pm with both major parties - the Democratic Unionist party and Sinn Féin - accusing each other of intransigence at the negotiations leading to this latest deadlock.
(11) The US secretary of state was due to hold late-night talks with his Iranian counterpart, Mohammad Javad Zarif, in a last-ditch attempt to break the deadlock on unresolved issues.
(12) The Spanish socialist party was facing a leadership crisis on Wednesday night after half the executive committee resigned in a bid to force out Pedro Sánchez, raising the prospect of an end to the country’s nine-month political deadlock .
(13) Lord McNally, deputy leader of the Lords, accused Labour of a "constitutional outrage" just hours after it emerged that Nick Clegg and Ed Miliband had held private talks to discuss the possibility of a deal to resolve the deadlock.
(14) The combination of the apparent intelligence successes and economic sanctions has increased western diplomats' confidence in talks with Iran this week, which have in the past invariably ended in deadlock.
(15) The chances of success will increase if the Syrians taking part include a strong representation of not just the regime and the official opposition – a recipe for endless argument and deadlock – but also of Syrian civil society networks and activists.
(16) Agüero's deadlock-breaker was undercut by trademark explosiveness.
(17) John Kerry , the US secretary of state, and Sergei Lavrov, his Russian counterpart, issued the call in Moscow on Tuesday after months of deadlock over Syria's bloody crisis.
(18) However, you can only do this if it remains unsolved after eight weeks or the supplier sends a deadlock letter saying it can do no more.
(19) David Higgins, who comes from the border village of Maguiresbridge, says he is more worried about “the waste of money up at Stormont” ( the currently deadlocked Northern Ireland assembly ) than he is about Brexit.
(20) City strive for parity with the elite but this deadlock was not the sort of equivalence they had craved.
Operation
Definition:
(n.) The act or process of operating; agency; the exertion of power, physical, mechanical, or moral.
(n.) The method of working; mode of action.
(n.) That which is operated or accomplished; an effect brought about in accordance with a definite plan; as, military or naval operations.
(n.) Effect produced; influence.
(n.) Something to be done; some transformation to be made upon quantities, the transformation being indicated either by rules or symbols.
(n.) Any methodical action of the hand, or of the hand with instruments, on the human body, to produce a curative or remedial effect, as in amputation, etc.
Example Sentences:
(1) All transplants were performed using standard techniques, the operation for the two groups differing only as described above.
(2) after operation for hip fracture, and merits assessment in other high-risk groups of patients.
(3) Twenty-seven patients were randomized to receive either 50 mg stanozolol or placebo intramuscularly 24 h before operation, followed by a 6 week course of either 5 mg stanozolol or placebo orally, twice daily.
(4) Of the patients 73% demonstrated clinically normal sensibility test results within 23 days after operation.
(5) Seventeen patients (Group 1) had had no previous surgery, while 13 (Group 2) had had multiple previous operations.
(6) Use of the improved operative technique contributed to reduction in number of complications.
(7) Life expectancy and the infant mortality rate are considered more useful from an operational perspective and for comparisons than is the crude death rate because they are not influenced by age structure.
(8) Together these results suggest that IVC may operate as a selective activator of calpain both in the cytosol and at the membrane level; in the latter case in synergism with the activation induced by association of the proteinase to the cell membrane.
(9) At operation, the tumour was identified and excised with part of the aneurysmal wall.
(10) Sixteen patients were operated on for lumbar pain and pain radiating into the sciatic nerve distribution.
(11) No consistent relationship could be found between the time interval from SAH to operation and the severity of vasospasm.
(12) In order to control noise- and vibration-caused diseases it was necessary not only to improve machines' quality and service conditions but also to pay special attention to the choice of operators and to the quality of monitoring their adaptation process.
(13) The present findings indicate that the deafferented [or isolated] hypothalamus remains neuronally isolated from the environment if the operation is carried out later than the end of the first week of life.
(14) At the fepB operator, a 31 base-pair Fur-protected region was identified, corresponding to positions -19 to +12 with respect to the transcriptional start site.
(15) In the past 6 years 26 patients underwent operation for recurrent duodenal ulcer after what was considered to be an "adequate" initial operation.
(16) The operative arteriograms confirmed vascular occlusive phenomenon.
(17) The reference library used in the operation of a computerized search program indicates the closest matches in the reference library data with the IR spectrum of an unknown sample.
(18) And that, as much as the “on water, operational” considerations, is why we are being kept in the dark.
(19) Six of the patients were operated using the McIndoe and Bannister technique while on the other two the Tobin and Day technique was used.
(20) Focusing on two prospective payment systems that operated concurrently in New Jersey, this study employs the hospital department as the unit of analysis and compares the effects of the all-payer DRG system with those of the SHARE program on hospitals.