The phrase 'intractable area' is correct and usable in written English.
You could use it to describe a situation or problem which seems impossible to resolve or achieve. For example: "The dispute over the border between the two countries is an intractable area."
Akin's movies, like the works of a major novelist, tend to seek out those thorny, intractable areas of private experience where politics is never going to gain more than a crumbling foothold.
At one point near the end of the war, for example, frustrated American commanders ordered that in certain intractable hostile areas, any gatherings observed from the air of more than a handful of people would be attacked with B-52 strikes -- the war's knockout punch, capable of leveling an area the size of several football fields.
Most computational problems in this area are intractable but several tractable fragments have been identified.
Being impactful in circumstances that are complex and evolving implies shifting the focus from the intractable to a defined area where a difference may be achieved.
"enlisted the help of people undergoing brain surgery to determine the location of intractable seizures so that the area can be removed in a second surgery.
They knew the real value of these substances to aid so many areas that are intractable".
Abyei, where skirmishes broke out Friday and Saturday, is considered the most combustible and intractable of all the disputed areas.
A huge number of African slaves were imported to Brazil, in part because of the needs of the sugar industry and in part because only a small number of often intractable native peoples remained in the area.
But apart from the intractable structural problems, there is one area that we in the web world are tantalizingly close to ameliorating: constituent opinion.
But of course, there is no reason whatever why scientists should not investigate the murkier and more intractable (not to mention more interesting) areas of human experience and every reason why they should!
