| It was the last myth that anyone needed, least of all those who loathe the notion of intractability. |
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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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| For a family of paradoxes, with similar levels of intractability, have been discovered, which are not reflexive in this way. |
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| Because of the intractability of her condition, the offender's prospects of rehabilitation are negligible. |
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| He was often accused of political intractability, lack of imperativeness and excessive slyness. |
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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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| But the intractability of the problem does not absolve us of the responsibility to engage in its resolution. |
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| In this intervention, the computer or therapist asks the client to brainstorm a list of problems, and then rank them in terms of intractability and irksomeness. |
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| Or they may not. Given the messy intractability of state failure, who or what has a chance of solving it? |
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| The intractability of the conflict in the Middle East is a matter of deep concern to my delegation. |
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| With its toughness and intractability, the Shield has served as the anvil on which the Canadian personality has been forged. |
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| The mission was struck by the complexity and intractability of the situation in Burundi, and its serious potential for large-scale violence. |
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| This course reviews important results in complexity theory and discusses the following topics: time complexity, space complexity, intractability. |
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| The other frustrating part of it to me is the size and intractability of the bureaucracy. |
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| The press gets involved, the Twittersphere goes wild, and all the seeds of intractability are sown. |
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| I find that her continued intractability and inflexibility since the April 2001 agreement has unnecessarily precipitated this round of litigation. |
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| We can admit the intractability of depravation, and still strive for dignity. |
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| One reason for the current intractability is that U.S. businesses over-reacted to the initial downturn. |
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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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| Partly in view of the intractability of the problem, very little thought had been devoted to its resolution, though a working group of the Joint Military Commission had drawn up a preliminary paper. |
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| Hence the seeming intractability of racism, among other consequences of fragmentation. |
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| Of the various factors influencing the maturity of the conservation context, the intractability of biodiversity threats is perhaps the most difficult to gauge, yet perhaps the most important. |
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| The intractability of biodiversity threats: The intractability of threats to biodiversity refers to the degree of difficulty in tackling the direct and underlying causes of biodiversity loss. |
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| The second factor that has exacerbated the global financial turbulence this time is the surprising severity and intractability of Japan's long-standing economic and financial problems. |
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| Milosevic's intractability, the horrendous atrocities that are taking place and a very small part of which have been discovered so far or the obvious ineffectuality of the international community. |
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| Armed conflict, political turmoil, economic stagnation, poverty and underdevelopment remain the main causes of the intractability and aggravation of the refugee problem. |
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| Apart from the possibility of deliberate action by right-wing political leaders willfully to squelch the democratization process, the transition may also be derailed by the intractability of the economic problem. |
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| The chronic nature of these criticisms, despite the excellent initiatives of the past Chair, suggests the intractability of some of these problems. |
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| Six of these African sites were reported at least six times to the World Heritage Committee, which demonstrates the intractability of the threats. |
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| Everybody knows about the spread of war, the rise of AIDS and other diseases, the hopeless intractability of poverty. |
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| The difficulty of achieving lasting solutions was directly related to the increasing complexity and intractability of contemporary forms of conflict. |
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| Mineral and oil and gas exploration projects are excluded due to their generally short-term nature, low probability of development and intractability in defining and listing. |
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| Still, in this fast-lane modern world of ours, public frustration with the intractability and messiness of some issues gives rise to a kind of political road rage. |
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| But for spring 2012, the designer's intractability paid off. |
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| But the problem with this intractability is that it is slowly but surely pushing China into a crossfire of regional power play that it may truly not be ready for. |
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