ADJECTIVE
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not easily solved
public finance...had long presented problems unsolvable or at least unsolved
an apparantly insolvable problem
How To Use insolvable In A Sentence
- As an ethical concept, the metaphysical concept of "fidelity" tries to fetter translation onto the two poles of "faithful" and "unfaithful", thus incurring a number of insolvable problems.
- Although all of China's potential sources of energy present problems, none of these problems is insolvable.
- Despite millennia of research and rumination, only recently has the humanity attained the necessary technological and intellectual stage to successfully tackle this seemingly insolvable conundrum. Archive 2009-06-01
- It helps that most of us have already lived through several life-challenging events that seemed insolvable -- and we made it through! Robert Levithan: Totally Committed/Completely Unattached: Reinventing a Future
- Suspecting an insolvable task, Kennedy whose own political base in the tobacco-rich South was thin quickly assigned it to his surgeon general, Luther Terry. The Emperor of All Maladies
- Oh well, just because a problem is insolvable doesn't mean the federal government can't throw hundreds of billions of dollars at it.
- What I do know what has resulted is not unlike the seemingly insolvable palestinian israeli conflict. Think Progress » Obama bumper sticker fuels violent political road rage in Tennessee.
- It's a very strange feeling, to have this weigh so heavy on my mind, and realize this is an insolvable problem.
- What I don't understand is why this basic respect for human rights doesn't apply to the people who call themselves Palestinian and who are illegal immigrants not as a matter of birth but only in the political calculus of those who find their indigenous presence at best an inconvenience and at worst an insolvable threat. Robert Scheer: On The Vilification of Helen Thomas›
- an apparantly insolvable problem