How To Use Tractability In A Sentence
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Because of the intractability of her condition, the offender's prospects of rehabilitation are negligible.
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Their model, notable for its simplicity and mathematical tractability, was foreshadowed by several others.
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Tractability is considered an attractive quality in a woman," Lindstrom said as she sank her pulaski into the bank and pulled herself out of the wash.
Firestorm
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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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(It is interesting to note, however, that muscular fibre detached from the living organism and mechanically stretched and relaxed shows after a period the same decrease in contractability under stimulation.)
Modern Religious Cults and Movements
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The British War Office prized this horse for war use because of its strength, endurance, hardiness, disposition, tractability and unflappability.
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These methods promise computational tractability with large data sets and complex evolutionary models.
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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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Paul Hartzog has blogged at On The Commons on how technology can change the way we classify resources and can “blur the lines between subtractability and excludability.”
Smart Mobs » Blog Archive » Technology and the Commons
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On the other hand, wherever intelligence and tractability mattered, as in mine workings and coal pits, and in pulling harvesters and ploughs, horses were the favoured form of power.
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What to look for: Top-quality poles are lightweight with comfortable grips, adjustable lengths, retractability (for easy packing), and an antishock system to reduce pressure on your arms.
Hiking poles: 4 legs are better than 2
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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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Sensibility and contractability are the fundamental qualities of living matter and of the life of our tissues.
The Evolution of Modern Medicine A Series of Lectures Delivered at Yale University on the Silliman Foundation in April, 1913
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Bouchut has remarked in the eruptions of scarlatina a curious phenomenon, which serves to distinguish this eruption from that of measles, erythema, erysipelas &c., a phenomenon essentially vital, and which is connected with the excessive contractability of the capillaries.
Advice to a Mother on the Management of Her Children
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(This estimate would equal in an adult man an amount equal to the absolute alcohol in two or three ounces of whisky or brandy.) "These investigations of Professor Martin, being directly corroborated by those of Drs. Ringer and Sainsbury, complete the series of demonstrations needed to show the actual effects of alcohol on the cardiac, as well as on the vasomotor, and also on the direct contractability of the muscular structure, when supplied with blood containing all gradations in the relative proportion of alcohol, leaving no longer any basis for the idea, popular both in and out of the profession, that alcohol in any of its forms is capable of increasing, even temporarily the force or efficiency of the heart's action.
Alcohol: A Dangerous and Unnecessary Medicine, How and Why What Medical Writers Say
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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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You should always be able to provide tractability for all feed purchased on your farm.
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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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You get the distinct impression that the cops are as baffled by the intractability of it all as everyone else.
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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
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For its part, the Council will put in place proper recycling facilities with tractability and accountability to ensure best environmental practice and reuse of scarce resources.
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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 pursuit of pseudo-scientific tractability, neoclassical economics neglects the dynamic aspects of the social realm and delivers a static utilitarian calculus.
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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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He added that this is undermining the confidence consumers have in the quality and tractability of Irish potatoes with potentially very damaging consequences for growers.
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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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Is it the intractability of teachers who teach the one year they know every year?
Innovation
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Due to the conceptual incompatibilities between different theories, and simple limitations in the tractability of equations when dealing with systems containing billions of particles, epistemological reductionism is false.
Stuart Kauffman and Reinventing the Sacred
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What to look for: Top-quality poles are lightweight with comfortable grips, adjustable lengths, retractability for easy packing, and an antishock system to reduce pressure on your arms.
Hiking poles: 4 legs are better than 2
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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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It has components such as irresponsibility (no honouring of obligations or commitments), impulsivity, sloppiness, distractability and risk-taking.
Times, Sunday Times
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We can admit the intractability of depravation, and still strive for dignity.
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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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His intelligence, tractability, and eager disposition make him an agreeable companion and willing worker.
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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.
