Sentences with phrase «bitter stalemate»

After sitting fallow for 43 years as the Lower East Side exploded in popularity around it, a desolate stretch of parking lots along Delancey Street is closer than ever to being transformed into housing and shops, potentially marking the end of a long and bitter stalemate over the future of the sites.

A «yes» vote would represent a major step forward in ending a bitter stalemate that has divided the neighborhood for 43 years.

Neither of the rival plans offered by Boehner in the House and Reid in the Senate seemed to have the necessary votes in Congress amid a bitter stalemate that could have far - reaching repercussions for the fragile U.S. economy as well as global markets.