Sentence examples for intractable conundrum from inspiring English sources

Pleasing sponsors, television, tournament organisers, players and public seems an intractable conundrum.

The combination of these last two parameters results in a seemingly intractable conundrum, and become further complicated by the real-world realization that pulsed lasers exhibit shot-to-shot energy variation.

It was a show about loneliness, self-loathing, and hostility toward both the vexing minutiae (airplane seats, parking spaces, rental-car lines) and the bigger, more intractable conundrums (work, love, marriage, family, death) of modern life.

It is only when things spin out of control that the inherent brutality of the situation becomes clear, but here again the movie poses intractable conundrums rather than scoring easy points.

Keller does not propose a solution to San Francisco's complex and intractable civic conundrum, though he does seem to cite approvingly the controversial "sweeps" of the homeless during the recent Super Bowl festivities: I don't have a magic solution … It is a very difficult and complex situation, but somehow during Super Bowl, almost all of the homeless and riff raff seem to up and vanish.

Like the prisoners at Guantánamo, this population poses a policy conundrum so intractable that Washington has opted to do what it often does in these situations: ignore the problem, and hope, fervently, that it will just go away.

The more Flanigan studied this conundrum, the more he came to see it as intractable.

A visit this spring with an American Army brigade in southern Afghanistan offered a firsthand look at the conundrum for American soldiers posed by Afghanistan's seemingly intractable opium poppy problem, which was detailed in an article in The New York Times on Sunday.