The battle had reached a deadlock.

You may break this "deadlock" and start brain-action by some kind of movement.

For things were approaching a deadlock on the Tiber, and that river, too, must, it seemed, flow with blood before the year ran out.

The drastic action of the State cannot be better illustrated than by the steps which were taken to meet the sudden commercial deadlock which the war precipitated.

With a deftly manoeuvred round of good-byes, a grip-laden dash for door, a throbbing moment of turning back when it seemed as though Sarah Kantor's arms could not unlock their deadlock of him, Leon Kantor was out and gone, the group of faces point-etched into the silence behind him.

There ensued a deadlock of another eight months, only enlivened by a naval mutiny, during which the country lay paralysed, with no programme whatsoever before it.

This season's operations only seemed to emphasize the deadlock.