Sentence examples for defy easy resolution from inspiring English sources

And though German companies and the German government say they want to begin making payments as soon as possible, the companies are raising legal objections that defy easy resolution.

WASHINGTON — Even as the crisis in Ukraine continues to defy easy resolution, President Obama and his national security team are looking beyond the immediate conflict to forge a new long-term approach to Russia that applies an updated version of the Cold War strategy of containment.

"I think there's a very real set of issues that really defy easy resolution," he said.

Now, with negotiations stalled and a potential default by the United States government just over the horizon, they are being held to those promises by their own rank-and-file, leaving them in a bind that is defying easy resolution and putting them at risk of being blamed if things end badly.

The first two seasons felt taut and disciplined because viewers were faced with a number of big questions that defied easy resolution: was Nicholas Brody a good man or a bad man?

The flotilla fiasco camouflages a more fundamental issue that defies easy resolution: the plight of Gaza's 1.5 million citizens caught in the vice between their unlucky choice of leadership and their inability to force their recalcitrant leaders to compromise with their Fatah compatriots to find a way out of their plight.

The subject's many difficulties both are fascinating and, at every turn, defy easy answer.

The two camps' supporters defy easy categorization.

But some defy easy explanation.

Some of the numbers defy easy explanation.

Some pop-top lids defy easy opening.