At the Convention the fear was expressed that the former, representing a majority of the States, and the latter, representing a majority of the people, might come into conflict, and that a deadlock would ensue.
It is probable that the President's ministers would have to encounter the opposition of a majority in one or both Houses, and it is difficult to see how a deadlock could be avoided.
However, one was for Bassett and t'other for Ellis, so the deadlock wa'n't broken.
When the tie business begun and Gaius and Dan was bribin' the billiard roomers to jine the club, 'twas him that fixed how they should vote so's to keep the deadlock goin'.
Dissatisfied Republicans saw the deadlock and laid it upon the shoulders of the President.
In the end the deadlock was broken when the followers of Blaine and Sherman shifted to the latter's floor manager, James A.
It is unnecessary to consider the arguments by which the Premier supported his proposal of indirect election, or those put forward by the two Houses during the deadlock which followed upon their disagreement.
There was in the Legislature, during the deadlock above mentioned, a man whom I will call Brogan.
The deadlock was tedious; and we hailed with joy such enlivening incidents as the above.
It was made easy for the four Commissioners to come to a deadlock among themselves; and if this danger was avoided, it was easy for one Commissioner, by intriguing with the Chief, to bring the other three to a standstill.
Federal union, it was urged, would solve party and sectional deadlock by removing to local legislatures the questions which created the greatest divergence of opinion.
Confederation would not have come when it did--and that might have meant it would never have come at all--had not party and sectional deadlock forced Canadian politicians to seek a remedy in a wider union.
THE UNION ERA The struggle for self-government seemed to have ended in deadlock and chaos.
Meanwhile, the contest in the New York Legislature continued until the 22d of July when the deadlock was broken by the election of Warner Miller and Elbridge G.
Besides Grant and Blaine, four other candidates were in the field, and the convention drifted into a deadlockwhich under ordinary circumstances would have probably been dissolved by shifts of support to Grant.
When desires are at loggerheads, when a deadlock of interests arises-an almost daily occurrence when life' is kept at a white heat-there must be some moderator, some governing power.
When, however, the deadlock occurred on the Aisne, they withdrew from the quaint old place without doing it very much harm.
As a deadlock ensued the treaty was definitely rejected, owing to the failure of its sponsors to secure the requisite two-thirds vote.
For many years there was a deadlock in Congress over the admission of new states.
At all events, four states sent in double returns, one set for Tilden and another for Hayes; and a deadlock ensued.
By 1818 slavery had become so entrenched and the anti-slavery sentiment so strong, that Missouri's quest for admission brought both houses of Congress into a deadlock that was broken only by compromise.
A deadlock ensued and Congress adjourned without making provision for the army.
For some days this deadlock continued, then America began to weaken.
Every day the peace commissioners met for hours of argument and pleading, but the deadlock of conflicting purposes was not broken.
I could more readily understand why there had been so long a deadlock on the western front.
Coming into the trenches for the first time when the deadlock along the western front had become seemingly unbreakable, we reaped the benefit of the experience of the gallant little remnant of the first British Expeditionary Force.
There was need of a new victory to give them cheer, for the retreat of their armies, and the deadlock that had now set in on the Aisne, had dashed their hopes of that speedy success which they had expected.
There ensued a deadlock of another eight months, only enlivened by a naval mutiny, during which the country lay paralysed, with no programme whatsoever before it.
The gains on the east were unfortunately neutralised by the deadlock in the centre; those on the west were consolidated and held.
Matters were at a deadlock till a bright lad suggested that there might be a little desert-scrub about if we looked for it.
But they say that with as many brains as you've got sloshing around loose in the neighborhood, you're a candidate that can break the deadlock in the school board.
You know, and I know, that whichever is finally engaged, or even if your silly deadlock is broken by employing a new candidate, the school will be the same old story.
But when at last a deadlockwas definitely reached, the Ulster position was stated in a letter which refused to concede to an Irish Parliament the control of either direct or indirect taxation.
By November 1st a completedeadlock had been reached.
After a while, as the deadlock showed no signs of breaking, the siege of privation began to tell, ominous signs of discontent became apparent.
To check the onslaught of the reinforced Russian armies against the Carpathian passes early in April, troops must be drawn from General von Hindenberg's armies, and the consequence was another deadlock in the north.
The aim of Austria's strategy is to maintain a deadlock until the issue has been decided in Poland.
In this territory a deadlock followed, both Russians and Germans remaining with horns locked and unable to move until early Spring.
A sudden recrudescence of activity on the western front gave rise to the hope that the deadlock might yet be avoided, that the two great armies might come to handgrips again.
In that deadlock of slaughter where I worked, I saw no pageantry of war, no glitter and pomp, at all.
After the hot toil of the autumn attack and counter-attack, there had come a deadlock to the wearied troops.
This broke the deadlock instantly, and for a few minutes the board room was as noisy as the wheat pit with a corner threatening.
The resolution went to the House and a deadlock arose between the two chambers for a time over Federal control of elections, provided in the Senate resolution, which was obnoxious to many southern representatives.
After prolonged balloting, the deadlock was broken by the nomination of James A.
