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How To Use intractable In A Sentence

• Elisabeth found herself with a straggle of colonists in a mosquito-ridden, uncleared jungle where sandflies bored into the skin of the feet and the clay soil was so intractable that nothing would grow.
• This pattern has developed into a state that conflict scholars label intractable and that mathematicians call an attractor: the Israel-Palestinian conflict has thus become an intractable attractor. Peter T. Coleman, PhD: The Mathematics of Middle East Conflict and Peace
• She was brave, but she was also intractable, when she set her mind on something.
• Referral for intrathecal administration is useful in rare instances, such as when pain is intractable to standard treatment.
• The observers of this law may be called sociable, (the Latins call them commodi); the contrary, stubborn, insociable, forward, intractable. Leviathan
• When Dana reached her side, he realized that she was intractable.
• Objective To assess the value of ictal video-electroencephalography monitoring (IVEEG) in presurgical evaluation for medically intractable nonlesional temporal lobe epilepsy(TLE).
• After years in the doldrums, the economy is picking up, and the seemingly intractable budget deficits have been avoided for the past two years.
• And intractable locational problems are not the only obstacles. Times, Sunday Times
• In other words, we are confronted with an intractable conflict attractor. Peter T. Coleman, PhD: The Mathematics of Middle East Conflict and Peace