How To Use Solvable In A Sentence

However, it is hardly an unsolvable mystery: remember that there were plants with sap, leaves, seeds, spores and pollen in the Paleozoic, long before flowering plants appeared.
It has outlived the Cold War, Vietnam, 2 Iraq wars and seems to unresolvable. Matthew Yglesias » David Petraeus, Jew-Hater
For anyone of this high level, they would have already graduated from college, be working on a degree of some sorts, working on finding cures to cancer and aids or solving unsolvable math equations.
As most folks know by now, this same issue underlies the great, unresolvable, and basically silly debate about whether the new millennium starts at the beginning of 2000 or of 2001.
US Republican Senator Judd Gregg withdrew Thursday as the nominee for Secretary of Commerce, citing "irresolvable conflicts" with the Obama administration over its economic stimulus plan.

Noise and pollution are problems, he says, but solvable ones. Times, Sunday Times
The surge in refusals of 'resolvable' requests came despite a fall in the volume of requests. Times, Sunday Times
Guidelines for selecting a supplement were provided including the importance of selecting a dissolvable supplement.
Politicians who objected to Mrs Thatcher and her radical conviction politics suffered the anguish of apparently unresolvable frustration.
Amazingly, that's widely recognised as a solvable problem. Times, Sunday Times
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
Politicians who objected to Mrs Thatcher and her radical conviction politics suffered the anguish of apparently unresolvable frustration.
Heavy metals are inactive amid an alkaline environment but become dissolvable in water in a neutral environment. Deaths Toll Rises to Six in Hungary Toxic Mud Spill
The disputes should have been quickly resolvable through diplomatic channels.
Neither question is analytically resolvable: the answers turn on value judgments, not analytical findings.
They are all solvable, but they multiply with distance. Times, Sunday Times
That brought back not only the chaw and snuff but also saw the rise of tobacco as dissolvable candy-like lozenges, tablets and breath strips, as well as sticks similar to toothpicks. Glenn D. Braunstein, M.D.: Chew on This: The Real Dangers of Smokeless Tobacco
Lots of couples share this problem but don't fret, it's solvable. The Sun
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.
It also suggests a canny ability to sublimate some of the social energy and anxiety toward the secondary ‘desire’: to recreate a difficult problem as easy solvable.
This argument has being going on for decades and, at the macro level, it is unresolvable. Times, Sunday Times
The Food and Drug Administration will meet this week to discuss the public health impact of tobacco products known as dissolvable tobacco, which some say resemble candy, including their use by children. Yahoo! News: Business - Opinion
They often come up with solutions for what seemed like unsolvable problems.
But those questions are not only often unresolvable, they are often rather meaningless.
More broadly, a conundrum is any problem where the answer is very complex, possibly unsolvable without deep investigation. Archive 2007-03-01
But in Timor's case, the facts of the situation made it an eminently resolvable problem, and one of my complaints about the media would be its failure to articulate the underlying facts and their resolvability.
Groups opposing sanctions say these problems are irresolvable until sanctions are lifted.
Although all of China's potential sources of energy present problems, none of these problems is insolvable.
This position allows consequentialists to recognize the possibility of irresolvable moral dilemmas.
Although the result is a non-standard account of geometry as an inexact science, Hume thinks that he thereby preserves reason from otherwise irresolvable antinomies.
While the main issue discussed above may be unresolvable, there is one subpoint that can be resolved.
For .ly domains to be unresolvable, the five .ly root servers that are authoritative *all* have to be offline, or responding with empty responses," he said. Faster Forward: Libya shutdown raises questions about bit.ly, security of foreign domains
After completely reducible systems, the notions of solvable and nilpotent systems are discussed, where general identities are considered instead of the usual commutativity.
In terms of religion, the problem is straightforward, and unresolvable: holy matrimony does not work as a concept in a society that no longer believes in anything holy.
Why this is the case is one of life's many unsolvable conundrums.
Here, I am not interested in the technical issues because they lead to interminable and irresolvable arguments.
I think many of us bull-headed people assume that all problems are solvable. Christine Carter, PhD: Should You Stay or Should You Go?
Once home, the entire package goes right in the wash, thanks to a packaging material composed of dissolvable cornstarch and a small amount of detergent.
She looked into his face, and guilt and self-reproach dissolved, along with the memory of another face, other eyes, ones that haunted and weighed her down with unresolvable pain.
Among the army of sleuths and secret agents that populated 1960s TV was a trio of detectives, employed by of a special branch of Interpol dedicated to solving seemingly unsolvable crimes.
To challenge either is to perpetuate an irresolvable debate, a heated exchange of ideas that no one ever wins, which leaves everyone with bad feelings.
Assumptions of the world as fair and manageable are shattered by an unsolvable mystery that can go on for a lifetime.
Seven-day working is not the only solution to a single, solvable problem. Times, Sunday Times
Apparently, the coelacanth, lungfish, and tetrapod lineages diverged within such a short time interval that at this level of analysis, their relationships appear to be an irresolvable trichotomy.
An hour came and went, and suddenly the issue was "unresolvable," and I was "a journalist up to trouble. Palestine Blogs aggregator
From these, in a narrow and a dirty street devoted to such callings, Mr Wegg selects one dark shop-window with a tallow candle dimly burning in it, surrounded by a muddle of objects vaguely resembling pieces of leather and dry stick, but among which nothing is resolvable into anything distinct, save the candle itself in its old tin candlestick, and two preserved frogs fighting a smallsword duel. Our Mutual Friend
It is highly unusual, for instance, to introduce a theme in A Major by setting up its harmony in C# Minor, but then again genius never likes to play by the rules, especially when it sets out to express the searching, irresolvable pangs of love. Rodney Punt: A Glowing Romeo et Juliette -- Charles Dutoit with the LA Philharmonic in Berlioz
a resolvable quarrel
public finance...had long presented problems unsolvable or at least unsolved
Rather, the filename's location will be resolvable with reference to its identifier.
US Republican Senator Judd Gregg withdrew Thursday as the nominee for Secretary of Commerce, citing "irresolvable conflicts" with the Obama administration over its economic stimulus plan.
The fights between differing entities or real enemies can be resolved, but the fights between brothers are irresolvable because they are bogus fights.
Then the faults of electro hydraulic servo system and sensor were transformed to resolvable models.
We're left with an irresolvable speculative disagreement; end of story. Outsourcing, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty
Had he known that the problems were "unsolvable" -- in other words, had he been more fully immersed in the subculture of expertise -- he likely wouldn't have even attempted to solve them. Conservapedia - Recent changes [en]
They were then asked to complete an unsolvable geometric puzzle.
In it he determined the minimal simple finite groups, this is to say, the simple groups whose proper subgroups are solvable.
Politicians who objected to Mrs Thatcher and her radical conviction politics suffered the anguish of apparently unresolvable frustration.
Again, you have a horrendous, fundamentally unresolvable problem, of picking the warhead from the decoy.
They transform solvable problems into irresolvable dilemmas.
Norbert, a reverse question to that, in some ways: what has gone wrong, how curable, how solvable is it?
And the remaining quarter came from interesting places like keck. hawaii.edu and c-span. org and unresolvable IP addresses. Cvillenews.com Site Traffic? at cvillenews.com
Simple games of poker are certainly 'solvable' in the way that oh, say, checkers is solvable. Singularity Watch, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty
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
The Cabinet Office report says papers are delivered after exams should have been held, questions are unsolvable and there are often errors in the marking.
Zen masters often use nonsensical or unsolvable riddles, or koans, to bring about enlightenment.
It is the same dream that will comfort us when times get tough, when the valley is deep, when the road is long, when the burden is heavy, when the strain is unbearable, when the hills are un-climbable, when the rivers are un-crossable, when problems are unsolvable. Byron Williams: THE DREAM LIVES ON
Equally, international diplomacy generally assumes that any dispute is ultimately resolvable through compromise and negotiation.
He would say: ‘Life is filled with golden opportunities, carefully disguised as irresolvable problems.’
The problem was that the debate was intrinsically unresolvable. Times, Sunday Times
The Cabinet Office report says papers are delivered after exams should have been held, questions are unsolvable and there are often errors in the marking.
The dilemma is irresolvable as Ms. Schiavo's wishes cannot be known.
However, some of our more solvable problems such as street crime and youth gangs who prey on innocents in broad daylight can be eradicated in short order.
Stressed plants diminish osmotic potential by accumulating free amino acids, ions and dissolvable substances.
After success in the early 1960s with her brother Tom in the British country-music trio the Springfields, she went solo and made her way into the heart of âSwinging London. â Part cartoon, part irresolvable desire, part bruised despair, she peered through heavy mascara and a stack of peroxided hair while singing with breathy sensuality. Five People Born on April 16 | myFiveBest
But the way some Orthodox seem to see it, the dissensus is irresolvable in principle. Orthodoxy on churches outside "the Church"
They're more interesting, though seldom compelling, in the historical sections, which are themselves more interesting for the density of detail gleaned from the novel—the shared excruciation of foot binding, the secret language with which the friends communicate, the irresolvable conflict between their love for one another and the pull of dutiful wifedom. Harry Potter and the Fantastic Finale
Or are these phenomena the expression of an irresolvable crisis of the capitalist economic and political order?
unresolvable confusion
It is perhaps this complete unpredictability in fishing that keeps us coming back for more, to solve the unsolvable conundrum: what makes the perfect fishing day?
Neither major power wanted a conflict in north Italy, but the strength of appeals for support in the face of an apparently unresolvable dynastic dispute proved irresistible.
I had difficulty separating the solvable problems from what was out of my control (since I try these days not to stress about things I can't do anything about).
Properties: Blue granule or powder. Dissolvable in water. Undissolvable in alcohol and lipin.
Abbott's bioabsorbable everolimus eluting coronary stent is made of polylactic acid, a proven biocompatible material that is commonly used in medical implants such as dissolvable sutures. Medlogs - Recent stories
Her echo bounced from wall to wall, penetrating his ears like an unsolvable riddle.
Unlike the other threats Nielsen names, he doesn't offer a solution, so he leaves us with his "us versus them" unsolvable problem, which is unacceptable.
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
Such movements are thus unable to contemplate that there might be irresolvable tensions between being Christian and being ‘a good American.’
The problems that were solvable by legislation had been dealt with by policy. Times, Sunday Times
Carrots dietary fibre. The calcium pectate in carrots is dissolvable and can help reduce cholesterol.
For Lincoln saw an unresolvable tension between the Constitution of a democratic republic and the policies of aggrandizement and intemperate self-interest that lead from the manners of freedom to the slavish love of power. David Bromwich: To Maintain a Republic
Some disputes might, by law, not be arbitrable - for instance, child custody disputes might not be fully resolvable by arbitration, because they involve the interest of the children, who have not agreed to the arbitration.
Andy, my crankiness comes from the fact that so many "picture books for older readers" are forced by the nature of the form to take an either cursory or superficial approach to problems "possibly not resolvable in a thirty-two page format," as former HB editor Anita Silvey put it. "Mad Bitches Against Gay People"
They held adultery in abhorrence, and with the more reason as their marriages were dissolvable at pleasure. The History of Emily Montague
The museum always foregrounds the unresolvable dichotomy between fact and fiction.
Is this evidence, at bottom, of an irresolvable clash between capitalistic materialism and religious, other-worldly values?
The painting gracefully combines the classical ideal of stability with Romanticism's restless play of unresolvable tensions.
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
This rule has one unfortunate effect: it leads to a genuinely unresolvable conflict, where two rules meet head on and it is impossible to say which should prevail.
He seemed the most troubled by the unresolvable contradictions of his recent life. Times, Sunday Times
The surge in refusals of 'resolvable' requests came despite a fall in the volume of requests. Times, Sunday Times
His task will be to resolve potential conflicts between Westminster and Holyrood before they become unresolvable issues.
There are numerous problems with guilt ; thankfully all of then are solvable.
Each contains an antinomy, a seeming contradiction, resolvable only by moving above the either/or into a third position that creates a broader frame.
In this sequence one keenly felt humanity's complex, wavering and unresolvable attitudes to life and death. Times, Sunday Times
From an empirical perspective, I see no irresolvable philosophical conflict between these subjects.
Speech, gesture, and every other form of human action are, in the long run, resolvable into muscular contraction, and muscular contraction is but a transitory change in the relative positions of the parts of a muscle.
So the next time you feel overwhelmed by the responsibilities that come with being a security officer or consultant, take solace in the fact that the problems you are trying to solve are fundamentally unsolvable.
All disputed points are potentially resolvable.
The makers of dropps are marketing their product as one that saves significant amounts of water as well as plastic. dropps is unique because it comes in dissolvable "toss-and-go" packs instead of liquid or powder format like many traditional detergents. Dropps Laundry Detergent
Better yet, in the process, you'll discover solutions for other seemingly unresolvable dilemmas. Times, Sunday Times
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.
If people are prepared to stand up, then these problems are resolvable, can be tackled and we can all work to reduce crime.
In response, he made himself a diffuse, uncertain thing, a mass of contradictory, irresolvable voices that speak truth plurally. Speaking in Tongues
It also solves a number of supposedly unsolvable problems that Web service developers have discussed over the years.
Desensitization and counter-conditioning are so effective that one can honestly call this problem 99% solvable.
In essence, the human brain has the ability to solve problems that seem unsolvable by intuition.
The same prospect of litigation over unresolved — and perhaps unresolvable — scientific arguments was among the reasons that the accusations of lying in [an earlier case] were deemed to be nonactionable. The Volokh Conspiracy » Interesting Libel Decision Arising from the Vaccine / Autism Debate
It's a very strange feeling, to have this weigh so heavy on my mind, and realize this is an insolvable problem.
But, the seemingly unsolvable mystery is this: Why has the fierce love of wrestling been so unfailing across the ages?
The history of this problem indicates that these controversies are reflections of irresolvable tensions in our thought about agency.
Was it too much to ask to contemplate only solvable troubles like arranging repairs for the roof?
There are only two words that resolve an otherwise unresolvable conundrum: 'biding' and 'time'. Times, Sunday Times
Some situations aren't easily resolvable, but stating how you feel is valuable. The Sun
The museum always foregrounds the unresolvable dichotomy between fact and fiction.
Those are the kind of things that are unresolvable.
There are messy, difficult, perhaps unresolvable problems with that. Times, Sunday Times
But for all its uses, the fraternal allegory poses a final and irresolvable problem for the national narrative.
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›
Is this evidence, at bottom, of an irresolvable clash between capitalistic materialism and religious, other-worldly values?
He was actually very close to working for the president, but decided in the end, he did not want to be President Obama's commerce secretary, citing what he called irresolvable conflicts. CNN Transcript Feb 25, 2009
an apparantly insolvable problem
On that score, the spinners and soundbite merchants have continuing - and perhaps unresolvable - doubts about the best way of selling Lieberman.
I know the operation was clearly troubling him, but it was solvable. Times, Sunday Times
While resolvable toxic aromatic amine dyes can make the clothes more brightly-colored, and maintains the color for a longer time.
‘That question remains unsolved and unsolvable,’ Greenberg writes.
From a technical viewpoint, thrust oscillation is a very solvable problem with a number of possible solutions. Latest Administrator Gossip - NASA Watch
A large subset of political disagreements are simply irresolvable by reference to facts, but are simply moral to the core. Election Prediction: Voting will be Irrational, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty
A chief point of discussion to which the investigations have led is: Whether the phenomena of what we call gravity may not be resolvable into those of magnetism -- a force acting at a distance, or by lines of power. Chambers's Edinburgh Journal, No. 448 Volume 18, New Series, July 31, 1852
These literal readings all pose the same, irresolvable problem.
Everything around me appeared blurred, the voices were a faint cackle and all the colours swirled in front of my eyes like parts of an unsolvable puzzle.
Your key planet Saturn is compromised by a quincunx from Neptune now putting you in an unsolvable existential dilemma.
Of all his attributes, I am most impressed by his constant striving to help patients with seemingly insolvable problems, achieving successes despite considerable odds.
The first is the idea that there is an irresolvable conflict between the public life of a city or nation, and the pursuits of philosophers and scientists.
The great unresolvable question, however, was always: to what extent do we factor in home advantage. Times, Sunday Times
This double-entry bookkeeping is something that he usually has the courage to confess ( "between two stools" becomes his preferred cliché) even when he knows that the contradiction is not resolvable. Survivor
Genuinely was sensibly imploringly than a solvable sandpile of easy krakatao in the earth, hurried therefor the farsightedness with all the pillar of a chemoreceptive sundew in diapason. Rational Review
I was persuaded that I had been spared an insolvable difficulty by declining to accept his gracious but unilateral appointment.
Last year, Dr. Lawrence Deyton, the director of the Food and Drug Administration's tobacco division, sent letters to both Reynolds and smaller rival Star Scientific Inc. in which he expressed concern that their dissolvable tobacco lozenges are candy-like in appearance and may appeal to the youth market. Altria Plans To Test-Market Smokeless 'Tobacco Sticks'
The difficulty of disentangling individual from collective responsibility for the evils perpetrated by the Nazi regime is unresolved even now, and perhaps is inherently unresolvable.
Explain that life does get better and conflicts are usually resolvable, no matter how bad the situation may seem. Times, Sunday Times
This irresolvable dilemma was conjured nicely by the question: Who serves when not all serve?
The number of times the participant attempted to solve the unsolvable puzzle was used as a measure of the person's persistence or residual frustration level.
I think at this point, that we have no true irresolvable conflict of interest with North Korea, and we should end the hostility that we've had since 1950.
Its central theme seemed to be an examination of how we should conduct ourselves given the inevitable and unresolvable conflict between good and evil.
Students are only asked to solve problems that their professors ( unless unusually cruel ) know solvable.
We are faced with a challenge that is difficult, but solvable.
This mixture is resolvable into two simple substances.
Years ago, they'd tell on you if you did something wrong — crimes were solvable. Times, Sunday Times
Again, the emphasis on youth seems to be a proxy for unresolvable personality issues with the established names. Is It Time to Clear Out Australia's Cricket Selectors?
In one sense, this ethical move by Levinas solves the previously irresolvable problem of self/other relations.
You could call that "overeducation," or you could call it one more instance of "people constantly creating these real unnecessary neurotic problems for themselves that keep them from dealing with more terrifying unsolvable problems about the universe," or you could call it something else. This Recording
First, it enables new and innovative approaches to scientific and engineering research, allowing scientists to solve previously unsolvable problems or to provide superior answers.
I would have been spared that habit if we'd had dissolvable chewing gum.
But perhaps its phenomenal success really only proves that, whether in Bangkok or Baldock, people everywhere love to escape from the real world, with all its unresolvable dilemmas and random irritants, into a realm where reason rules supreme, and where every problem has a perfect solution — even if the process of finding it leaves us frothing with frustration. Games
Marx was emphatic about the need for abundance, for he thought that scarcity made conflicts unresolvable.
One application of the solvable Freiman theorem is the following quantitative version of a classical result of Wolf, which asserts that any solvable group of polynomial growth is virtually nilpotent: What's new
The Kashmir issue appears to be unresolvable at the moment.
The disagreements between our camps, however, are deep-rooted and likely to remain - at least on this side of eternity - irresolvable.
Derivations and copies are carefully identified, although who produced them, and precisely how, seems to remain unresolvable.
all disputed points are potentially resolvable
This is related to Wittgenstein's distinction between solvable vs. "dissolvable" problems (or problem/questions). You can't begin yourself away from what you're already doing.
Instead of coming up with practical, realistic solutions, city council will get bogged down in an unresolvable argument over the evils of alcohol.
Cosmo Specialty Fibers has one of only a handful of U.S. plants capable of converting cellulose into "dissolvable" pulp and the only one close to Pacific port shipping lanes. Old Port Profits With New Exports
If dissolvable stitches have been used, they will disappear 7-10 days after the operation.
They're more interesting, though seldom compelling, in the historical sections, which are themselves more interesting for the density of detail gleaned from the novel—the shared excruciation of foot binding, the secret language with which the friends communicate, the irresolvable conflict between their love for one another and the pull of dutiful wifedom. Harry Potter and the Fantastic Finale
Where they came, where they went, the questions surrounding them (and indeed the women themselves) were unsolvable mysteries.
such problems are perfectly solvable
Not a portion of the value, but the _whole value_, is resolvable into net income and revenue maintaining British families, and creating and sustaining The History of the Great Irish Famine of 1847 (3rd ed.) (1902) With Notices of Earlier Irish Famines
This strikes me as yet another irresolvable dilemma as there are cases to be made for both points of view.
There's no single-handed solving of unsolvable murders these days - and no beautiful, blonde dames in distress to be rescued, as in Philip Marlowe's day.
The riddle is solvable by pure logic without assumptions. Einstein's Riddle
According to several attendees, negotiations stalled from the onset over the same issues that have proved irresolvable. Obama Warns Cantor As Debt Talks Stall: 'Don't Call My Bluff'
Richard Lavenham, an English contemporary of Wyclif, perhaps put the prevailing optimism best (Spade 1975, p. 93; Heytesbury 1979, p. Just as the bond of love is sometimes called insoluble, not because it can in no way be untied (sit solubilis) but because it can be untied [only] with difficulty, so a proposition is sometimes called insoluble, not because it is not solvable but because it is solvable [only] with difficulty. Insolubles
Low caloric polydextrose also called indigestible dextrin , was a kind of water - solvable dietary fiber product.
‘If a problem is solvable,’ he says ‘then there is no need to worry.’
There are some built-in technical problems that seem inherently unsolvable to me.
Is the disparity between personal experience and the historical facticity of war irresolvable?
But it is a mark of the mature level of trust between the two presidents that when problems remain unresolvable at the moment, they are able, without dramatization, to postpone the solution of that problem for future meetings.
Could the unresolved and unresolvable qualities of the 'mystic' chord likewise speak paradoxically of peace? The Times Literary Supplement
Explain that life does get better and conflicts are usually resolvable, no matter how bad the situation may seem. Times, Sunday Times
After success in the early 1960s with her brother Tom in the British country-music trio the Springfields, she went solo and made her way into the heart of âSwinging London. â Part cartoon, part irresolvable desire, part bruised despair, she peered through heavy mascara and a stack of peroxided hair while singing with breathy sensuality. Five People Born on April 16 | myFiveBest
The core unresolvable deadend difficulty in Capitalism is that competition breeds an enormous waste of human, natural, and industrial resources.
Finished with 15 caps and an unresolvable knee injury. Times, Sunday Times
Another step in the biblical counseling process is convincing the counselee that his problems are solvable. Examiner California Headlines
These are available as tablets, injections, nasal sprays or dissolvable wafers.
Climate change is a huge problem - but it is a solvable one. Times, Sunday Times
That kind of panic is broadly solvable with advice, experience or ingenuity. Times, Sunday Times
Politicians who objected to Mrs Thatcher and her radical conviction politics suffered the anguish of apparently unresolvable frustration.

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