Sentence examples for conflicts are intractable from inspiring English sources

These conflicts are intractable, nuanced, interrelated.

That should be good news for those who worry that religious-based conflicts are intractable.

It reinforces the ominous sense that this conflict is intractable; and so to drop down into the Jerusalem Bird Observatory and encounter the natural world again, after five days of being overwhelmed by tourist and political Israel, was suddenly a blessed relief, not least to hear the Israeli warden, Alena Kacal, saying: "People leave their religious and political differences at the gate.

Those are intractable, systemic challenges.

Meanwhile, the biggest problems are intractable.

Progressively intractable conflicts are creating a spiraling global-refugee crisis that today includes close to 60 million individuals around the world.

Invited back in February by his successor as secretary general, Ban Ki-moon, to serve as the special envoy to Syria for both the United Nations and the Arab League, Mr. Annan, 74, appeared to put aside what to many others seemed obvious: the conflict in Syria was intractable, enormously complicated and unsolvable by diplomacy alone.

The conflict in Northern Ireland had been intractable for decades.

Twenty years ago, another bitter, long-running conflict that was also believed to be intractable — the one between Protestants and Catholics in Northern Ireland — ended with the signing of the Good Friday agreement.

This means that most conflict is not intractable because the root cause is not irreconcilable differences, but a basic unmet need.

"When I was growing up it always felt that the Irish conflict was totally intractable and similarly as much as we campaigned for the end of apartheid, none of us thought it would actually end.