Sentence examples for are facing intractable from inspiring English sources

Since the dawning of civilization, humankind has made remarkable progress in advancing public health and improving people's health, but in many ways, we are facing intractable and emerging health problems.

Nevertheless, we are facing this "intractable deadlock today".

"It certainly is going to help, but part of these problems we are facing are intractable," said James L. Melcher, a partner at Balestra Capital, a hedge fund in New York that believes the housing problems will intensify.

The disputed election has cast a cloud over the country, which is facing an intractable guerrilla insurgency in the southern and eastern parts of the country.

The neo-liberal order is already facing intractable problems.

When you're facing something as intractable and incomprehensible as infertility, and you're feeling helpless and hopeless, denial can be your best friend.

As a species, we are faced with complicated and seemingly intractable problems (like curing baldness).

But as the Republican nominee for the United States Senate in New Jersey, Mr. Forrester, 49, concedes that he may now be facing his sternest, most intractable challenge yet.

You assert ("Diplomatic Bonfires," editorial, May 20) that "if Mr. Bush had not neglected the Middle East crisis in his first year in office, he might not be facing such a seemingly intractable deadlock today".

Grueskin argues that "one of the things engineers want to do is find practical, intractable problems society is facing and help come up with ways to solve those problems".

But it did not move Obama much to the left when the Democrats controlled the Congress, and it is unlikely to do so over the next two years when he is facing an even more powerful and intractable Republican opposition.