Active vocabulary: words and word combinations
1. a stance / position
- a tough / firm / rigid / uwavering stance
- an aggressive stance
- to stiffen / harden / toughen ones stance
- to take / adopt a tough / muscular line / stance (on) -
- to maintain / keep / adhere to a stance
2. to stall
- stalled / deadlocked / stalemated negotiations
3. to sever / break off ties / relations
- severance of diplomatic relations
- a break in / interruption of relations
- the relations are marred / spoilt
4. a party to a dispute ,
5. a standoff / conflict ,
6. to be at loggerheads with , -
7. to be at odds with - -
8. to be in jeopardy
- to put smth in jeopardy
- to jeopardize
- to pose a threat to
9. to handle / tackle / solve a dispute
- to settle / resolve a dispute peacefully (through negotiations) ( )
10. prevention of a conflict
- imminent / coming conflict
- current conflict
- irrepressible conflict
- to avoid a conflict
- to constrain a conflict
- to mediate a conflict
- to terminate a conflict
- to trigger / cause a conflict /
- to be at the root of an international conflict
11. to accuse smb. of doing smth. - -
- to suspect smb. of doing smth. - -
12. sanctions (restrictions, an embargo, a ban) ,
- to apply restrictions in (trade) ,
- to violate embargo
- to extend sanctions ,
- the extension of existing sanctions
- to back sanctions
- to drop / remove / lift / abandon sanctions ()
- to impose sanctions ()
- to tighten sanctions
- to ease sanctions
13. a hurdle / impediment / obstacle / hindrance / obstruction
- to remove a hurdle
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14. a deadlock / stalemate / logjam / gridlock / blind alley / dead end
- to be at a deadlock
- to bring to / come to a deadlock -
- to reach a deadlock
- to break the deadlock
- to escape from the deadlock ( )
- to deadlock negotiations
15. to make concessions
- to concede
- to reach a consensus
16. to escalate / increase / heat up / fuel / heighten / tensions
- the tensions became palpable
17. to reduce / decrease / defuse / ease / alleviate / lessen tensions /
- to downplay tensions
- to lower confrontation
- tensions diminished
18. differences
- deep-seated differences
- to iron out / bridge differences
- to smooth / assuage differences
- to resolve / tackle differences
- to overcome differences
19. to collapse (to breakdown) ( )
- a breakdown
- to fail ,
- to be on the verge of collapse
20. to urge smb. to do smth. / - -
21. to put / bring / exert (strong) pressure on (c) -
- to be under the pressure of
- to resist pressure
22. to reconcile /
- reconciliation /
23. to thaw / defrost ( )
- a thaw / warming in relations
24. deadline
- to set a deadline for smth -
25. to reiterate /
