Peak Everything Else will prove more intractable for humanity.
The conflict in Northern Ireland had been intractable for decades.
"Maternal deaths have remained stubbornly intractable" for two decades, Unicef reported last year.
His other priority, reviving the Mideast talks, has proved intractable for far longer.
Mitt Romney's personal unpopularity may well be as intractable for him as public opinion about the economy is for Obama.
Noël Mamère, a legislator from the small Greens party, said, "Justice can be indulgent for the powerful, and intractable for the poor".
The geography is bookended by two volatile struggles, intractable for more than half a century: the Palestinian-Israeli conflict and Kashmir.
But now that Chinese companies operate in a global environment and raise capital on international stock exchanges, the China difference is proving intractable for some.
Watts was looking less for a wife, really, than for a permanent, live-in model, and Terry proved too high-spirited and intractable for the job.
At the foot of the main escarpment, on the Sula Mountain plateau, and elsewhere an iron-rich laterite crust forms a surface that is intractable for agricultural production.
Each day Washington spends dickering over health care is another day lost while the election-year economy, stupid, remains intractable for Americans who are suffering.
