(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.
Opposition
Definition:
(n.) The act of opposing; an attempt to check, restrain, or defeat; resistance.
(n.) The state of being placed over against; situation so as to front something else.
(n.) Repugnance; contrariety of sentiment, interest, or purpose; antipathy.
(n.) That which opposes; an obstacle; specifically, the aggregate of persons or things opposing; hence, in politics and parliamentary practice, the party opposed to the party in power.
(n.) The situation of a heavenly body with respect to another when in the part of the heavens directly opposite to it; especially, the position of a planet or satellite when its longitude differs from that of the sun 180¡; -- signified by the symbol /; as, / / /, opposition of Jupiter to the sun.
(n.) The relation between two propositions when, having the same subject and predicate, they differ in quantity, or in quality, or in both; or between two propositions which have the same matter but a different form.
Example Sentences:
(1) "Zayani reportedly cited the political sensitivity of naturalising Sunni expatriates and wanted to avoid provoking the opposition," the embassy said.
(2) A triphasic pattern was evident for the neck moments including a small phase which represented a seating of the headform on the nodding blocks of the uppermost ATD neck segment, and two larger phases of opposite polarity which represented the motion of the head relative to the trunk during the first 350 ms after impact.
(3) Eye movements which were either complementary or in opposition to the induced vestibular nystagmus were produced with an optokinetic drum.
(4) Enamel was exclusively present opposite well developed dentine.
(5) She knows you can’t force the opposition to submit to your point of view.
(6) Problems associated with school-based clinics include vehement opposition to sex education, financing, and the sheer magnitude of the adolescents' health needs.
(7) Environment groups Environment groups that have strongly backed low-carbon power have barely wavered in their opposition to nuclear in the last decade, although their arguments now are now much about the cost than the danger it might pose.
(8) 10 women in the study developed carcinoma in the same or opposite breast within 16-20 years, a rate of incidence 480% greater than among the general population of women of the same age.
(9) To understand the reason for the opposite effect of the molar ratio observed at the middle of and at four residues away from the lysine-rich sequence, actual cross-linked residue(s) was (were) determined by subjecting cross-linked product to a protein sequencer.
(10) Effective medical or surgical therapy increased DAO activity and decreased CDAI, while clinical recurrence had the opposite effect.
(11) Hfr strains B4 and B8 transfer the Escherichia coli chromosome in opposite directions, each transferring lac(+) as the last known marker.
(12) Others said it might appeal to Russia, Assad's chief ally, which backs talks between the regime and the opposition.
(13) The ruling centre-right coalition government of Angela Merkel was dealt a blow by voters in a critical regional election on Sunday after the centre-left opposition secured a wafer-thin victory, setting the scene for a tension-filled national election in the autumn when everything will be up for grabs.
(14) Application of a mirror at the serosal surface opposite to the probe, resulted in an average increase of the output signal by 50% using the large fibre diameter probe, whereas no increase was observed with the small fibre probe.
(15) Her speech suggested the kind of Republican who would truly "raise the conversation", and if it seems like settling to want an opposition party to simply not be so utterly vindictive, well, yes, I will settle for that.
(16) 2) Left-right PHR coherence spectra had no distinct peaks, indicating that correlations between opposite PHR discharges were now not frequency specific.
(17) What we see from those opposite and we see in this chamber every day is the 'born to rule mentality' of those opposite.
(18) Of those, 39 were civilians, 34 armed opposition fighters and 35 members of the state security forces, said the UK-based group.
(19) Opposition politicians such as Joshua Benjamin Jeyaretnam and Chee Soon Juan , brought low for daring to disagree.
(20) A property may be considered overcrowded if two children above 10 of the opposite sex have to share the same bedroom.