Sentence examples for intractable enemy from inspiring English sources

Garden designers expect to work in an intricate dance with the elements and the whims of their clients, but Dan had come up against a more intractable enemy: London's creaking Victorian infrastructure.

The book is a "memoir and a personal testament of Fang Lizhi a renowned scientist, humane scholar, political activist, intractable enemy of authoritarian government, and courageous advocate of human rights," Lerch wrote.

He made intractable enemies.

Does Obama believe that even the most intractable enemies can be pacified with diplomacy?

"MIT proved the most intractable of enemies," says another university official.

Obama's visit was aimed at consolidating a detente between the once intractable Cold War enemies and the U.S. president who said in a speech to the Cuban people that it was time for both nations to put the past behind them and face the future "as friends and as neighbors and as family, together".

We assail our political enemies with intractable opinions and self-righteous anger.

But the goal should be containment, not victory, because the enemy is uniquely intractable.

One of the factors that can make mass psychogenic illness more intractable is a strong plausible enemy.

Ironically, we accept this loss of power willingly, even eagerly, because it allows us to hold on to what seems to matter most to us: our vision of a war against inhuman evildoers, which brings us to... Mistake Number Five: To convince ourselves that the Islamic State is evil incarnate, we imagine that the enemy is as relentless, intractable, and implacable as the devil himself.

"Sometimes it seemed as if Tozzoli, the director of the project for the Port of New York Authority, had personally willed the towers into existence — outfoxing enemies, bullying colleagues, maneuvering around one intractable problem after another".