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Blackholing is a tactic which involves sending internet traffic into a dead end - rather than its intended destination.
BBC: Syria: Internet and mobile communication 'cut off'
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If IGF-1 fails, it wouldn't be the first time a rush to develop copycat cancer drugs has led drug firms into a dead end.
FORBES: Cancer Revolution, Or Me-Too Mess?
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If you want to keep the company moving, or you ran into a dead end in a maze, and you turn around and try something else.
FORBES: In Praise Of The Pivot: Why-And How-To Change Course
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However, what happens more often than not, is you run into a dead-end of the maze.
FORBES: In Praise Of The Pivot: Why-And How-To Change Course
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He had fled from officers into a dead-end street, where police found him apparently with a gun-shot wound in the head.
BBC: Germany stunned by shooting spree
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The deterioration of democratic institutions in Russia since Mr Putin came to power in 2000 has led the country into a dead-end that is reminiscent of the late 1980s.
ECONOMIST: Russian modernisation
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The less visible multiplication of gated communities is actually far more noxious than it is Puerto Madero (a highly regarded architectural rehabilitation of an old dead harbor into a high-end space for offices and commerce).
FORBES: La Salada: The Largest Informal Market In South America
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They hope to drive the program into a political and technological dead-end by denying it the synergy and efficiency that can come from an integrated management structure and by diverting funds from space- to ground-based defensive systems.
CENTERFORSECURITYPOLICY: Hapless SDI damsel in distress: Awaiting a hero
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On a quiet, brief day well into autumn, crossties were being loaded onto flatcars at a dead-end siding.
NEWYORKER: Among Animals and Plants
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They can choose a path that brings them back into the community of nations, or they can continue down a dead end.
WHITEHOUSE: President Obama at 2012 AIPAC Policy Conference
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When a shopping mall opens, most of them fall gratefully into dead-end jobs, serving smoothies and sandwiches.
ECONOMIST: New fiction: Dean Bakopoulos
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At the end of the second quarter, he ran into a virtual wall when Takeo Spikes and LaBoy stopped him dead in his tracks after attempting a quarterback draw.
WSJ: Waiting for Tim Tebow to Go