Sentence examples for difficult and intractable from inspiring English sources

He said: "In this very difficult and intractable area charities are very best placed to to be frontline providers for local authorities".

Lilly offers space for both performance evaluation and grant-making alongside philosophical debates "about what the ultimate intent of philanthropy should be", says Pasic. "Some people want to see immediate impact within months, as opposed to others who talk of the need for philanthropy to look at some of the most difficult and intractable problems".

Thus, the global optimization of our problem by a centralized approach may be even more difficult and intractable.

Essentially, both problems are difficult and intractable conflicts that have not been resolved through diplomatic negotiation.

For well over a decade, the work to combat modern slavery and human trafficking has been an example of Congress's ability to put partisanship aside in the interest of tackling a difficult and seemingly intractable problem.

The list of impact investors is growing every day, and we will all continue to work toward better identification of who is truly acting as a social enterprise, e.g. companies building business models to tackle some of the most difficult and seemingly intractable social and environmental problems, including climate change, poverty, water, energy and real estate, etc.

The emphasis on multiple scales in resilience thinking has tended to make the bounding of decision problems more difficult and sometimes intractable (Levin 2000 Walker et al. 2002; Fischer et al. 2009; Polasky et al. 2011).

This poses a difficult, and perhaps intractable, medical, ethical and sociocultural challenge as the changes that would be required to increase rates of brain death would mean conjugating an intimate clinical and cultural focus on the dying patient with the notion of how this person's death might be best managed to be of benefit to others.

Finding ways to mitigate this problem has been a surprisingly difficult, and so far intractable, challenge.

There will be no way out of this, unless the history and the west's past mistakes are understood by those who are trying to grapple with the present intractable, difficult and extraordinarily dangerous problem.

The resolution of names to concepts (see paragraph 3, below) is far more difficult and is likely to be intractable for universal coverage.