So it has spawned a conflict between its organs, and a consequent impasse in which the lower centres drive the higher pitilessly into devising means and instruments for the suicide of the whole.

When two reasonable persons arrive at a controversial impasse, they usually agree to differ and go their several ways.

This fact is construed by the pragmatist as a significant indication of the way out of the epistemological impasse.

" "It's a snarl, all right," he said, and almost immediately began discussing the peculiar impasse in which his difficulty with Tump had landed him.

A regrettable impasse has been reached in the dispute between The Amalgamated Society of Trades Union Leaders and the Trades Unions.