How To Use Intractability In A Sentence
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We can admit the intractability of depravation, and still strive for dignity.
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However, given that the broad parameters of a permanent two-state settlement are clear, for the most part, it seems that something more basic is contributing to the continued intractability of the conflict.
Peter T. Coleman, PhD: The Mathematics of Middle East Conflict and Peace
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So he put out a press release blaming the grocer for its "intractability" on the issue and "apologiz ing to the Ward 8 community for Giant's failure to provide timely support to the Community.
DeMorning DeBonis: Nov. 24, 2010
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Leon Panetta was right on the money by naming the intractability of the Clintonistas as a “sense of entitlement”.
Early Word: Convention Previews - The Caucus Blog - NYTimes.com
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Because of the intractability of her condition, the offender's prospects of rehabilitation are negligible.
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The intractability should remind us that the issue is not pro or anti globalization, but how to make publicly accountable the oligarchy that has led us into this experience of globalization as breeding more and more injustice.
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In another sign of the intractability of the situation, a planned Wednesday visit by Arab League Secretary General Nabil Elaraby to push for an Arab plan to defuse the crisis was called off at the last minute at the request of the Syrian government, two Arab League officials said.
Heavy gunfire in central Syria; several killed
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In all its intractability, this is the conversation that so many in so many different extra-governmental forums are now trying to ignite.
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A vitality, a vigour, which is infectious owing to its strength and intractability and to the paradoxical freedom it possesses as against what is related.
Nobel Prize in Literature 1983 - Presentation Speech
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Is it the intractability of teachers who teach the one year they know every year?
Innovation
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It was the last myth that anyone needed, least of all those who loathe the notion of intractability.
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You get the distinct impression that the cops are as baffled by the intractability of it all as everyone else.
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He was often accused of political intractability, a lack of imperativeness, too great a readiness to take clairvoyants seriously, and excessive slyness.
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Williams has a comparable interrogative edge, a sense of the difficulty of doing justice to the complexity and sheer intractability of reality, and of the unavoidability of tragedy, conflict and fragmentariness.
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He was often accused of political intractability, a lack of imperativeness, too great a readiness to take clairvoyants seriously, and excessive slyness.
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It is this unwillingness to listen, to think things over after hearing the other person's point of view that continues to contribute to our intractability in the political arena, to the astonishing rise in hate groups since the election of President Obama and to the general distrust of our justice and other systems.
Andrea Lyon: Sometimes the Other Person Has a Point
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In the case of my employer, this intractability led directly poorer versions of products for our customers (where in some cases they actually preferred the older generation to the new one).
Strategic Entrenchment
