Sentence examples for had defied solution from inspiring English sources
They studied climate change, Jews in the medieval Islamic world, the religious lives of African-American slaves, nuclear safety and nonproliferation, the biochemistry of DNA, the magic of Vladimir Nabokov's words, and a math puzzle that had defied solution for 350 years.
This problem has defied solution, except for small values of n, though a large amount of numerical data has been amassed.
The panel, known as the Joint Select Committee on Deficit Reduction, will have three months, until Nov. 23, to forge an agreement on divisive issues that have defied solution for decades.
Lake Erie's travails — and now, Toledo's — are but the most visible manifestation of a pollution problem that has grown as easily as it has defied solution.
The Israeli government decided in principle tonight to "remove" Yasir Arafat, threatening the Palestinian leader with expulsion, jail or possibly death after almost three years of conflict that has defied solution, by force or negotiation.
And the money could help lay the groundwork for a rational way to cope with Mexico City's water problems, which have defied solution, and where water subsidies alone consume more than 1percentt of Mexico's entire federal budget.
But four months into the war in Congo -- which has drawn soldiers from at least seven nations and has defied solution at every round of peace talks -- things do not seem quite that tidy.
The litigation comes as people at all levels of government have identified opioid abuse as a major public health — and societal — woe, one that thus far has defied solution.
It is miraculous because it somehow doesn't involve deportation, even though 11 million people are living in the United States outside the law, and also because it will permanently solve a problem that has defied solution for two and a half decades.
This latest program, which will allow owners to sell for less than they owe and will give them a little cash to speed them on their way, is one of the administration's most aggressive attempts to grapple with a problem that has defied solutions.
