Something had to be done to break the deadlock, and business held the key.

The new policy is designed to break a political deadlock.

So we are taking necessary action to break the deadlock.

He was seeking to break a long deadlock in Congress over the issue.

We must find a solution, a way to break the deadlock.

His second came a minute into the third period and broke a 2-2 deadlock.

We made a proposal in order to break the deadlock.

To be sure, a crisis can sometimes break a deadlock in trade talks.

However, the Senate was unable to break a deadlock on even one of the 35 points.

Which meant there remained only one way to break the deadlock.