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.
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
Clopidogrel should be used in patients with true intolerance to aspirin (allergy or intractable side effects on low dose enteric coated aspirin with or without antiulcer drugs); dipyridamole alone does not prevent cardiac events.
Even cancer, so often an intractable ailment, may be made more treatable with chronobiological principles. THE RIGHT TIME FOR A CURE
The Future of White Boy clubs at FactoryCity the issue of diversity in culture is intractable and unsolvable. The Future of White Boy clubs | FactoryCity
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
Typically, urgent intervention is not indicated for urolithiasis, but it may be necessary if the upper urinary tract is obstructed and infected, the renal function is compromised, or there is intractable pain or vomiting.
At the heart of the present political conflict is an intractable contradiction.
Conclusion Treatment of intractable pain of wrist joint by denervation is mainly indicated in wrist pain at dorsal side.
So any perception by conservatives that progressives are intractable is itself only further demonstration of THEIR absolute unwillingness to engage in anything which might, by even the most reckless stretch of the imagination, ever be mistaken for reasoned discourse or genuine political interchange. Think Progress » Obama bumper sticker fuels violent political road rage in Tennessee.
It had been judged wiser to keep our rendezvous location a secret lest any of the more intractable nobles sabotage our plans. THE GOLDEN FOOL: BOOK TWO OF THE TAWNY MAN
an intractable disposition
Germany, with its intractable economic problems, is seriously considering it.
the most intractable issue of our era
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.
War is further seen as a means of diverting the attention of working people from the intractable social and economic crisis at home.
He could afford, he reckoned, to be relaxed about certain sorts of problem; namely those he privately labelled intractable.
Most are constrained by limited resources and by intractable domestic agendas that impede their capability to implement policy.
I suggested that it'd not stay healthy for long if it had no work to do but he was intractable.
Since no single activity is responsible for undesired emergent properties of complex systems, such problems are intractable to our pluralistic political processes.
It had been judged wiser to keep our rendezvous location a secret lest any of the more intractable nobles sabotage our plans. THE GOLDEN FOOL: BOOK TWO OF THE TAWNY MAN
Nothing is more frightening - no economic problem more intractable - than a deflationary spiral.
Poverty remains intractable despite economic growth in many countries.
I would just want to point out a bad choice of words in one of the first paragraphs: "(...) problems, such as factorization, which are classically intractable (...)". The Daily Galaxy: Great Discoveries Channel
But perhaps the most intractable obstacle to mass college attendance was the elite character of the college itself.
Those fabulous, hovering blocks of pure colour and intractable darkness - brooding encounters with the infinite - take the viewer beyond the art work into a parallel universe.
Wild and intractable woman to win.
I told myself that something should be done for the parish, but I knew the problems it presented were intractable. ABSOLUTE TRUTHS
History is replete with instances of misguided leaders believing they were statesmen and entering into parleys and talks with intractable and cunning enemies.
Rather than have otherwise qualified aspirants tilt at windmills or be shammed with cosmetic social changes, it's seems fair and reasonable to implement mechanisms to compensate for intractable bias. You Only Need One
Even more seemingly intractable problems will be posed by attempts to store virtual reality.
This year's Nobel Prize in Physics honors three theorists whose insight resolved what had appeared to be an intractable subatomic paradox.
If the Great Restructuring has the potential to resolve the seemingly intractable problems of Detroit, per haps bold structural overhauls can produce similar results on some broader issues facing America. The Great Auto Restructuring Shows Signs of Success
I think institutional sexism is a really intractable issue on Wall Street.
So we see among wild beasts, the intractable and least tamable are the most timorous and most easily startled; the nobler creatures, whose courage makes them trustful, are ready to respond to the advances of men. The Lives of the Noble Grecians and Romans
Wild and intractable woman to win.
Thus, the ultimate question of a gradual decline of dinosaurs vs. a sudden cataclysm is almost intractable without a wealth of good data.
Most are constrained by limited resources and by intractable domestic agendas that impede their capability to implement policy.
You could crack your skull on that intractable stone, or it could scoop out spoonfuls of flesh.
Once one deals in principles that are so fundamental, intractable and as slippery as fairness, then the devil, as one says, is in working through its details.
Economic progress has been accompanied by wide income disparities and intractable social problems.
The patient was admitted to the hospital with intractable abdominal pain.
Wild and intractable woman to win.
In part this flows from the recognition that many of the most intractable social problems are not simply economic or even political.
Chronic hiccup is an intractable disease and its pathogenesis is still unclear.
Surgery for intractable disease should be delayed until the fetus is viable.
Quantum computers can also efficiently solve certain mathematical problems, such as factorization, which are classically intractable, and can implement types of cryptography which are classically impossible. The Daily Galaxy: Great Discoveries Channel
A problem can be intractable under one approach and yet fully tractable under another.
Under those circumstances, it's hard not to simply decide that the problem is intractable and give up.
Topical antipruritics are preferred over systemic agents (such as oral antihistamines) when smaller surface areas of skin are affected and pruritus is not intractable.
These have not had measurable success in the past and do not address the complexities of the present problem: a shrinking and inadequately educated workforce, coupled with a rapidly growing "nonproductive" older population, a persistent and intractable high school dropout rate, and the skyrocketing cost of higher education. Bernard Starr: How Seniors can save American Education and the Economy
People with diabetes may develop a particularly intractable form of disordered eating that is not readily amenable to treatment.
The plight of people who have exhausted all 99 weeks of unemployment insurance available in some states -- the "99ers" -- has received some attention from Congress and the media, but mostly their predicament is regarded as an intractable and pitiful part of a bigger problem. 99ers: How Many People Have Run Out Of Unemployment Benefits?
These theoretical problems are most visible and at their most intractable in the area of fostering and adoption policy.
Though most previous Popes had feared denying Ferrante anything he asked for, Pope Alexander was intractable. THE FAMILY
If all these measures fail and pain remains intractable, then below knee amputation may be needed.
Over the coming weeks, we'll be highlighting how organic farming can provide solutions to the seemingly intractable problems afflicting our food chain.
The man was speaking through an interpreter, and in seconds Barnes formed an impression of him as a ticky, nervous guy, the kind of intractable motormouth who said the exact same thing no matter where he was.
For severe intractable cancer pain, more potent long-acting opioids are recommended.
In the end he was beaten by Pandora, in whose box was not only the party demon but also the even more intractable economic and nationality devils.
A rabbi - whom I immediately felt sorry for - was 'awash in paradoxicality', which apparently proved that 'cognitive dissonance is good for intractable conflicts'. Archive 2005-05-01
Until, that is, the advent of Minimalism, an ethos so certain of its rightness, both aesthetic and historic, that it stands in the causeway of late 20th-century art as the most intractable of obstacles. A Minimalist Artist With a Modernist Bent
But politics would seem to call for fairly exacting acuity, and Michal Rovner's swoony images of intractable real-world problems have angered some viewers.
The anonymous narrator's struggle with the intractable but potentially perfectible medium of language is what constitutes the real story. The Times Literary Supplement
I told myself that something should be done for the parish, but I knew the problems it presented were intractable. ABSOLUTE TRUTHS
Obviously, recommendations to solve such a seemingly intractable problem as already low and decreasing numbers of graduates from agronomy and crop science programs will not be easy.
It emerged as the most intractable issue of our era.
One of the more intractable outsourcing relationships is when one organization manages another's internal systems.
England had been gripped by a series of particularly damaging and intractable strikes during the previous three years. DARE CALL IT TREASON
I found him intractable, dominating and intent on lecturing everyone about the way to do things, which in his case meant only the way they'd done things in the fifties.
From him even the most intractable pages stir with revolutionary fervour.
There's a strong countercurrent of feeling that Turkey is gratuitously barging into the intractable quarrels of others. Tayyip Erdogan's Dangerous Rhetoric
England had been gripped by a series of particularly damaging and intractable strikes during the previous three years. DARE CALL IT TREASON
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.
Placing less blame on Alice than she does on the social circumstances inspiring her heroine's turn to the bottle, Austen here looks at excessive appetites less as the result of an intractable will, than as the introjection of external pressures and repressive social codes. 'Pleasure is now, and ought to be, your business': Stealing Sexuality in Jane Austen's _Juvenilia_
This society does not deal well with long-term intractable problems of any kind. Re: Autism
That is perhaps one reason why its peoples are so intractable and difficult.
The observers of this law may be called sociablethe Latins call them commodi; the contrary, stubborn, insociable, froward, intractable. Chapter XV. Of Other Laws of Nature
At the same time, however, the city has a solid, and seemingly intractable core of families caught in the poverty trap, living on benefits, untrained and unequipped for the job market.
At the heart of the present political conflict is an intractable contradiction.
And he is similarly intractable on the matter of promotional activities, which he has strictly limited to three a week.
The recollection is of a religious zealot, a somewhat dull and intractable man in stark contrast to his master, the virile and volatile Henry VIII.
Clinton also alluded to the intractable ideological divide that led to the suspension of top-level budget negotiations.
They are intractable in their thinking, they are unreasoning and unreasonable and it's just a waste of breath to talk to them.
The idea is to bring them on side, to drive a wedge between them and people they perceive as intractable opponents.
While he concludes with a proposal for detente, his own account shows that these disputes are likely to be as intractable as they are longstanding.
We speculate that professional speed eaters eventually may develop morbid obesity, profound gastroparesis, intractable nausea and vomiting, and even the need for a gastrectomy. Archive 2008-06-01
Objective To study the feasibility and advantages of microsurgery with minimal trauma in treating potential intractable subdural hygroma.
Calves born to tame mothers living with humans would either prove tractable and so be kept to breed, or intractable and so escape or be eaten, outcomes that are genetically equivalent.
We have mapped the human genome and embarked on identifying and curing heretofore intractable genetic conditions.
One of the more intractable problems was how to dispose of the effluent in an ecologically acceptable way.
Though most previous Popes had feared denying Ferrante anything he asked for, Pope Alexander was intractable. THE FAMILY
The patient remarked that she had scratched her back with a long bathroom loofah to relieve intractable itching.
This is the point when both sides are convinced that the other one is completely inane and ridiculously intractable.
Although here, too, Chicago had fared better than many older cities, unemployment remained a serious, seemingly intractable problem.
Would lawmakers mandate hospitalization for intractable nausea and vomiting during pregnancy?
Injections that block nerve transmission in the plexus may be helpful in the treatment of intractable abdominal pain, such as in cancer of the pancreas.
Intransigent towards ecstatics, sarcastic towards Catholics, intractable towards heretics, Calvinism participated unwittingly in the disenchantment of the world.
Intractable as these difficulties sometimes are at the sampling stage, they become much worse at the level of analysis and interpretation.
Unemployment was proving to be an intractable problem.
Objective: To evaluate the efficacy and safety of dialytic ultrafiltration and intraperitoneal reinfusion in cirrhotic patients with liver cancer and intractable bloody ascites.
Who would prefer that Coleridge be Schelling?), but his career as a writer in motley genres and sundry places was enabled by his vacillation, his apostasies, the intractable irritability of his text. Site One: A Romantic Education.
These theoretical problems are most visible and at their most intractable in the area of fostering and adoption policy.
He uses Jonathan Chait's essay* on bringing back Saddam as the basis for this, but he describes it as "Swiftian", meaning he believes it was satire, presumably in the mode of "A Modest Proposal" which presented a horrifying option to an intractable problem in order to illuminate the lack of moral concern on the part of the ruling class. Hullabaloo
Depression is a natural feeling if your problems seem intractable.
Their concern is that utopian aspirations towards a new peaceful world order will simply absolutize conflicts and make them more intractable.
Spinal cord stimulators also are used in the treatment of intractable pain.
The story is already stale and yet it continues to remain intractable, organizationally and professionally, for most media organizations. Peter Schwartz: Black Swan Imbroglio: The Crisis of Journalism and Control of the Stack
But The Left Hand of Darkness is haunted and bedeviled by the gender of its pronouns, a wild, fierce, and intractable tribe. SF Tidbits for 3/31/09
The observers of this law may be called sociable, (the Latins call them commodi); the contrary, stubborn, insociable, forward, intractable. Leviathan
Neither there nor in Kosovo is an exit strategy evident, because the departure of the international community would leave both places with the intractable political problems that led to intervention in the first place. Nation-Building 101
Nothing is more frightening - no economic problem more intractable - than a deflationary spiral.
A case report published in Southern Medical Journal shows that lidocaine may be effective in treating chronic, intractable hiccups.
The extent to which a human can be made to feel insignificant in the face of an intractable force of nature knows no bounds.
The Net poses intractable problems to the would-be lawmaker, or moral disciplinarian.
Scarcity seems equally intractable at first - the Internet is certainly not going to eliminate shortages of material objects or time or ability.
He begs Achilles to send him to battle quickly (oka); he cannot bear Achilles' intractable patience.
This is a slightly more intractable problem than the prospect that any totalitarian movement will close off opportunities for its own later displacement by refusing to hold further elections.
They are intractable in their thinking, they are unreasoning and unreasonable and it's just a waste of breath to talk to them.
And its sentiment of reconciliation between intractable camps is a lesson particularly useful in these times, with our nation painfully divided along political lines and world tragically divided along religious ones. Rodney Punt: A Glowing Roméo et Juliette -- Charles Dutoit with the LA Philharmonic in Berlioz
By these she was adored, and loved like a mother almost, for as such the hearty kindly girl showed herself to them; but at home she was alone, farouche and intractable, and did battle with the governesses, and overcame them one after another. The Newcomes
To be a passionate learner is to be willing to plunge into the unknown, to dive into the wreckage, to thrash around in the stormy seas of uncertainty rather than to sit calmly on the beach basking in what you believe (falsely most of the time) to be intractable and unyielding answers. A Classroom Dialogue
Most are constrained by limited resources and by intractable domestic agendas that impede their capability to implement policy.
What may be done to reduce the influence of intractable opponents?
After the Civil War, small-arms technology evolved rapidly, but a penurious Congress and an intractable ordnance board balked at rearming an entire army.
Captain Fannicot, a bold and impatient bourgeois, a sort of condottiere of the order of those whom we have just characterized, a fanatical and intractable governmentalist, could not resist the temptation to fire prematurely, and the ambition of capturing the barricade alone and unaided, that is to say, with his company. Les Miserables
Including Russia (but not China or France) in the ruling committee might impart just the right soupçon of anti-Americanism to the new organization, which must be credible yet not intractable
The most intractable problem of glioma is tumor recurrence after operation.
Now it represents one of the world's most intractable economies.
In that case the patient had been diagnosed with terminal cancer or intractable pain connected up with the terminal cancer.
Though many of our claims about musical works may be paraphrasable into claims about sets of possible performances, some seem to make intractable reference to works. The Philosophy of Music
The anonymous narrator's struggle with the intractable but potentially perfectible medium of language is what constitutes the real story. The Times Literary Supplement
Clinton also alluded to the intractable ideological divide that led to the suspension of top-level budget negotiations.
Countries whose boundaries were defined by colonial powers rather than their own peoples have been ravaged by decades of seemingly intractable cross-border conflicts and civil war.
Uneasiness may perseverate, developing into intractable feelings that seem insurmountable. Jessica Zucker, Ph.D.: PBS's 'This Emotional Life': Postpartum Depression
Despite the seemingly intractable nature of this peaceful dispute, the basic ingredients for its resolution are acknowledged by all the major players: a bizonal, bicommunal federation. Cyprus Sabotage
What may be done to reduce the influence of intractable opponents?
The industry also produces the occasional miracle med that empowers doctors to cure otherwise intractable diseases.
Slavery remained an intractable and growing problem, unamenable to existing British naval and diplomatic activity.
intractable pain
This problem has grown increasingly intractable because of changing social expectations about parenthood.
That said, the text is often intractable or so annoyingly assertive as to appear priggish.
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
The organizations women formed to bring about equality were just as often havens from intractable, institutionalized misogyny.
intractable metal
Given the intractable nature of controlling leaks, we need to try remedies that have not been tried before.
If they last longer than a month, they are termed intractable. NYT > Home Page
These unwanted emergent environmental patterns seem intractable to pluralist politics.
Captain Fannicot, a bold and impatient bourgeois, a sort of condottiere of the order of those whom we have just characterized, a fanatical and intractable governmentalist, could not resist the temptation to fire prematurely, and the ambition of capturing the barricade alone and unaided, that is to say, with his company. Les Miserables
a fanatical and intractable governmentalist, could not resist the temptation to fire prematurely, and the ambition of capturing the barricade alone and unaided, that is to say, with his company. Les Misérables
It needs someone immediately capable of cutting through the company's notoriously intractable bureaucracy and hidebound engineering culture.

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