But the elephant in the Pentagon is that the intractable cross-border insurgency will likely outlive the presence of international troops.
For an area such as early intervention, aimed at breaking intractable inter-generational problems, cross-party co-operation is vital, Allen says, "to avoid the ups and downs of policy change that has bedevilled British policy making for so many years".
Because of the high potential for intractable confounding and reverse causation, cross-sectional studies were excluded.
These "aged" polypeptides may either be degraded by 20S proteasomes or cross-link to form structures intractable to proteolysis and inhibitory to proteasome activity.
We do not, however, suggest that public health ethics currently offers a universally applicable set of norms, nor that it offers to resolve intractable human rights dilemmas such as its cross-cultural relevance to practices like female genital mutilation.
We drove beneath a raised crossing gate, angled like a satyr's intractable erection, then continued past acacia groves and cypress stands toward the rising sun".
The inclusion of cross-sectional studies may result in high potential for intractable confounding and reverse causation.
The Pakistani army's impressive recent campaigns in the tribal areas have been directed at terrorists active in Pakistan, not those who cross the border to attack NATO in Afghanistan.All these problems are fiendishly intractable.
Throw in the ethical material that has sprung from the cross-culturalisation of our society, and you have a heady, often intractable, mix.
This article is part of the Concordia Partnership Series that highlights the power of cross-sector collaboration to address some of the world's most intractable problems.
Oliver concludes that we must reconfigure suburban governments to allow seemingly intractable issues of common metropolitan concern to surface in local politics rather than be ignored as cross-jurisdictional.
