6 Naturally there is a lot of disagreement in a partnership, but make certain you're on the same side when battling outside forces: money; unfeeling authority; intractable bureaucracy; strangers who have parked stupidly.
But China's second condition raises what many experts say is the more intractable issue: the authority of the Vatican over the appointment of bishops and other vital church activities.
But tyranny is not only a cause, but a symptom of more intractable problems, with tyrannical authority often replaced by a vacuum of authority.
But prosecuting gangs has proved an increasingly intractable task for the authorities.
ATHENS — With euro zone finance ministers set to resume talks on Greece's intractable debt on Tuesday, the authorities in Athens scrambled Monday to sign off on measures intended to satisfy the outstanding demands of the country's foreign lenders.
The UN agency for Palestinian refugees (Unrwa) issued a statement on Tuesday cancelling the race on 10 April and expressing its disappointment at the new and intractable position of the Gaza authorities, which have permitted women to run alongside men for the past two years.
The stories of the Italian residents are part of a long and seemingly intractable problem faced by the authorities at Guantánamo: how to find homes for cleared prisoners who cannot be repatriated?
