The phrase "at the intractable" is not correct and does not convey a clear meaning in written English.
It seems to be an incomplete expression and lacks context to determine its intended use.
Example: "The discussion reached a point at the intractable, where no solutions seemed possible."
Alternatives: "at the impasse" or "at the deadlock".
This is all delivered with an air of benign wonder at the intractable stupidity of people.
The possible break in the case came after a particularly violent weekend in Newark, a spasm that has undermined Mayor Cory A. Booker's repeated pledges to whittle away at the intractable murder rate.
Seeds of Peace was born out of Mr. Wallach's frustration at the intractable nature of the Palestinian conflict, and its connection with the World Trade Center bombing in February 1993.
Her hundred and one days in Baghdad, however, come to an end even before the premature declaration that combat is over, and she can only hint at the intractable conflict that has engulfed Iraq in the two years since then.
At times, the intractable nature of American racism can sometimes be too much for the people I spoke with to want to carry on in their work.
This debut, by a staff editor at The New York Times, charts the intractable tragedies that plague the loosely connected residents of a small Boston suburb.
Texas does have a lot of jobs, and it would be churlish to sneer at that, given the intractable unemployment in much of the country over the past few years.
Google started with the premise that computer science, at scale, makes the intractable tractable.
A training in philosophy was all the more necessary since only a firm grounding in logic and ontology could prepare one in a meaningful way for participation in the subtle theological debates that dominated the best minds at the time, notably the intractable problem of the nature of Christ: Does Christ have two natures, one human, one divine, or one compound nature?
The other found that five to ten treatments of dry cupping at shenque point improved the intractable hiccup after stroke [ 26].
Tried and tested measures such as family nurse partnerships and family intervention programmes need to be extended across the country, targeted at the most intractable families.
