Sentences with phrase «decades of stalemate»

Both issues are once again in the news as Republicans take control of the gears of government in Washington and President - elect Donald Trump prepares to name a Supreme Court justice who could play a role in undoing four decades of stalemate on the right to abortion.

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In the early eighties various parties in Europe wanted to move beyond the political stalemate that had characterised much of the prior decade.

The number of Senators has been at an even 62 for the past decade, which helped lead to the 2009 coup attempt and month long stalemate, when Senators evenly divided between two opposing factions.

The discord has put development projects at risk and led to a governance stalemate unlike anything in the bridge's more than eight decades of binational control.

On the other hand, Carpenter says, drug development for psychiatric disorders «has been stalemated for decades» due to our lack of understanding of the biological roots of psychiatric disease.

In an attempt to break the decades - long stalemate, the American military turns to Miguel dos Santos — a brilliant Brazilian roboticist — ... But as Miguel reluctantly carries out his orders, it becomes clear that he has other plans for what remains of humanity.

This important issue has been stuck in a political stalemate for over a decade; the stalemate has now been (partially) broken at an especially interesting moment in the evolution of the federal sentencing system.

Much of the political talk was focused on how to effect change in the decades - long stalemate over proposals to tighten gun laws and in a burning desire to elect candidates who won't kowtow to the gun - rights lobby.

Its message in the aftermath of last month's fatal shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland has been clear: It's time to end the decades - long stalemate on gun control and enact laws to keep guns from falling into the wrong hands.