Graham Sims, the council's chief executive, said they were faced with "rising costs and legal stalemates".

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We are in one of the classic he-said, he-said stalemates in, certainly in sports history.

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First, ending the stalemates on the Fissile Material Cut-off Treaty and the Comprehensive Nuclear Test Ban Treaty.

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This has been one of the policy stalemates that historically have plagued Japan along with its aging population.

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Errigal Ciaran are due to face the Armagh champions at Clones on Sunday for the third time following two stalemates.

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But two years of U.N. diplomacy, negotiations and chronic stalemates at the Security Council have so far failed to produce an effective solution in Syria.

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Morales ratified but the political scenario stalemates.

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Mr. LANCE CORCORAN (Chief of Communications, California Correctional Peace Officers Association): This is a guy that came in and promised to cut up the credit cards, to stop deficit spending, to stop budget stalemates, and he has utterly failed, I mean, to the point that he has absolutely no credibility.

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