More recently, as the Iraq conflict has mutated into a bloody and intractable counter-insurgency, the president promoted an Afghan film, Osama.
How are journalists going to make sense of it all: Britain in Europe, the most intractable, counter-intuitive story of our time?
Still, many researchers worry that the underlying message of the new office might be part of a larger social trend toward rejecting science and bringing mysticism and New Age culture into the mainstream, or that it might be a desperate grasp at something, anything, to counter intractable, fatal illnesses like AIDS.
Hip Hop Health is just one of many modern programs that try and directly counter seemingly-intractable health and education issues in underserved communities.
His subtle and unfussy reading of these intractable poems as the rhythmic development of theme and counter-theme effectively refutes the idea that they are just a ragbag.
Over the past 10 months, Prince Mohammed has struck up a warm rapport with Kushner, who has been a regular guest in Riyadh, where he has discussed two of the region's most intractable issues: peace between Israel and the Palestinians and how to counter Iran.
In fact, the Peninsula was the original intractable insurgency, which, in turn, shaped the modern model of counter-insurgency, and Bell doesn't hesitate to draw parallels between our time and then: "Spain saw the development of a guerrilla war every bit as destructive as — and eerily similar to — the insurgency now under way in early-twenty-first-century Iraq," he writes.
Ministers are turning to behavioural psychology to tackle some of the most contentious and intractable problems facing the Government, including attempting to cut illegal immigration and countering Islamic extremism, it has emerged.
Corruption lies at the heart of many of Russia's most intractable problems, from the poor state of the army, to the war in Chechnya, to its ineffective policing and counter-terrorism.
Unfortunately, corruption remained intractable.
