Traders are using the conflict to push prices higher. Everybody now is hiding behind the umbrella of the Iran nuclear stalemate, but we have to remind ourselves that Iran cannot afford to stop its shipment of oil.
Quotes about stalemate (16 Quotes)
This administration is doing everything we can to end the stalemate in an efficient way. We're making the right decisions to bring the solution to an end.
This is not a time for sitting back. It's not a time for complacency. We cannot afford a prolonged stalemate.
Technically, the last number of years, partially from the injury, it's been difficult to push forward but I felt even before the injury that I still could do more and was sort of at a stalemate.
A lot of states seem comfortable with a stalemate on the death penalty. Executions are rare in most states but they're not ready to get rid of them.
The Legislature's low public-approval ratings reflect citizens' frustrations with the partisan bickering, inactivity, and stalemate at the highest levels of state government. As a result, the state remains stagnant and unrepresentative.
The King must restore the spirit of the Constitution. Until and unless he does that, he can't expect anyone to take over the responsibility, only then can the situation go beyond the stalemate that we are in.
And that's going to create a stalemate between the two sides unless we build a bridge to the future in advance of that stalemate.
I don't think any movie or any book or any work of art can solve the stalemate in the Middle East today. But it's certainly worth a try.
There is no clear-cut victor in the battlefield, either on their part or on our part. There has been a stalemate and this stalemate has been going on for years on end.
To say that we are closer to victory today is to believe, in the face of the evidence, the optimists who have been wrong in the past. To suggest we are on the edge of defeat is to yield to unreasonable pessimism. To say that we are mired in stalemate seems the only realistic, yet unsatisfactory, conclusion....It is increasingly clear to this reporter that the only rational way out then will be to negotiate, not as victors, but as an honorable people who lived up to their pledge to defend democracy and did the best they could.
The breakthrough agreement with North Korea not only diffuses a two-year stalemate but holds out the hope that Pyongyang will return to its international treaty obligations,
enables us to escape from the stalemate that we had on which way to make forward on the peace track.
There is a difficulty in the peace process in that while all three tracks remain in stalemate, it is hard for any party in the negotiations to feel confident in the possibility of progress, ... And because there is no confidence in the possibility of progress, it is difficult to generate momentum toward progress.
At the first hint of a stalemate in the Senate and the House, Congress may try to pass the elections first and delay this to 2007.
This global tension, led by the stalemate between Iran and the U. S., could lead to oil prices about 80. People are really afraid that something is going to happen, and soon.