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The impasse seemed insurmountable.
These are impasses for the wily climbers.
"It is an impasse" he exclaimed at the door.
Oh, she could recall skirmishes and narrow impasses!
Luckily, a way was found out of the seeming impasse.
Unquestionably he viewed the impasse purely from the military point of view.
Roman pots were found some years ago beneath the pavement of the impasse.
Then came another ludicrous legitimate situation of the impasse, another thwarting of ridiculous Destiny.
The plans showing a way out of an impasse such as this were legion.
The result is a financial impasse that even a schoolboy should be able to fathom.
As they contemplated this impasse, a plank, narrow and tenuous, seemed to bridge the abyss.
We had arrived at this impasse when the man suddenly reappeared, wiping his mouth.
We reach an impasse, and might argue till daybreak without getting an inch further forward.
She was absolutely at a standstill every time her thinking led her to this impasse.
Our Constitution has entrapped us in no impasse, where retreat is disgrace and advance is impossible.
He spent days in retracing the steps which had brought him to this desperate impasse.
Here was an impasse for people whose Western minds could not follow such mental somersaults.
There are two current solutions which are offered as a means of egress from this impasse.
Could he ever for a moment have cheated himself into forgetfulness of the impasse that lay there?
Wading had made a study of the President's, and more than once had lured him into an impasse.
"If you were to solicit my opinion, I'd say we'd reached an impasse before we entered this room."
The by-streets of our suburb become mere lanes, and the impasse is far more common than the thoroughfare.
The years had conspired to bring this impasse, from which there was no escape but by marriage.
This fact is construed by the pragmatist as a significant indication of the way out of the epistemological impasse.
Even glare ice does not present an impasse, it only serves to slow the progress of these indomitable mountaineers.
They walked along the deserted boulevard under the new white, florid buildings, and turned into an impasse.
There was no retreating from this impasse, and the momentous question, "Shall I slay my brother boa?"
Only princes and farmers-general could indulge in such magnificence, and the fame of the Impasse would be undying.
She lived quite happily in the Impasse, making the afternoon tea, sitting as a model, and inflaming all their hearts.
It was a jolly life in the Impasse, though money was plentiful but rarely, and fortune had still to be wooed.
He would lift the purse of his best friend or his rescuer from a desperate impasse, provided it were sufficiently heavy.
Whilst I make these observations in the interests of scientific accuracy, I admit that projects, for insisting on payment in kind may be very useful politically as a means of escaping out of our present impasse.
No number of outstanding bills, however, constituted an impasse till you were absolutely sued for debt; the simplest way of discharging them, a way naturally popular, was to continue ordering things at the same shops.
It is not the mere mending that is the cause of the trouble, but the constant pulling up of the roads for laying or repairing gas-pipes, water-pipes, and what not that so often brings one to an impasse.
I confess myself, however, so pleased with the trend of your mind as exhibited in your conversation with us, that I am desirous to know what further proposals you care to make, now that our mutual good intentions have led us into an impasse.
No, there was no help for it; there was only one way out of the terrible impasse into which his enthusiasm, and that moral weakness which is so often associated with great intellectual power, had led him, and that way he took.
On the one hand, we have seen that there is a way out of the impasse into which modern scientific theory has got itself as a result of the lack of a justifiable concept of force, and that this way is the one shown by Reid and travelled by Goethe.