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be intractable
adjective
Not easily controlled, governed, managed or directed.
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True post-traumatic stress can be intractable and does not tend to respond to most therapies.
The custom is so entrenched that many people assume it to be intractable.
The practical complexities may be intractable, from the sharing of copyright to the management of competing performance schedules.
Yet factionalism and sectarian stalemate within the Iraqi cabinet and parliament proved to be intractable throughout 2007 and beyond.
The seasons may be intractable masters, but Mr. Goldstein, now 71, has come to expect their tyranny.
Over the span of Murphy's career in the Senate — the era since Sandy Hook — the politics of gun control have often been said to be intractable.
Now, with the efforts to reduce domestic violence homicides, the department believes it is seeing success in an area once thought to be intractable.
But on at least one key point, the Cambodians appeared to be intractable as the United Nations insisted on a tribunal that would not compromise on international standards of justice.
Facing what it believes to be intractable opposition from federal antitrust regulators, United Airlines has decided to abandon its proposed $4.3 billion takeover of US Airways, an executive at the airline said yesterday.
By Benjamin Wallace-Wells February 16, 2018 Over the span of Murphy's Senate career — the era since Sandy Hook — the politics of gun control have often been said to be intractable.
Further, the House and Senate were locked in what seemed to be intractable negotiations over tucking a clause into the airline security bill that would limit the liabilities against New York in lawsuits.
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