7 sentences with 'stalemate'
Example sentences and phrases with the word stalemate and other words derived from it.
• « The Hittites reached a stalemate against the Egyptians, after which they reached a diplomatic agreement to hold Syria while the Egyptians held Canaan. »
• « In 1632, King Adolf was killed in battle and the military leader of the Catholics, a nobleman named Wallenstein, was assassinated, leaving the war in a continuing bloody stalemate. »
• « In 1915, in a vain attempt to break the stalemate, both sides began using poison gas, which was utterly horrific, burning the lungs, eyes and skin of the combatants. The survivors of the poison gas attacks were considered the unfortunate ones. »
• « The Battle of Verdun, a huge German offensive that sought to break the stalemate in 1916, resulted in 540,000 casualties among the French and 430,000 among the Germans. It achieved nothing but carnage, with neither side gaining significant territorial concessions. »
• « There was a stalemate between the provisional government, which had no police force to enforce its will, and the soviets, which could control their own areas but lacked the ability to bring the majority of the population (who wanted, in Lenin's words, "peace, land and bread") to their side. »
• « The most important lesson German strategists had learned from World War I was how to overcome trench warfare. After years of stalemate, Germany had managed to break through the French and British lines on the western front right at the end of the first war, before they were pushed back by the onslaught of American troops. »
• « After three years of bloody fighting, including the invasion of a large-scale Chinese army in support of the northern forces, the Korean War ended in a stalemate. »