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Intractable, it is also impossible to write an evaluation function, ie a set of rules that tell you who is winning a position and by how much.
The report challenges defeatist assumptions that addiction to smoking among people with mental health conditions is either inevitable or intractable: it is not.
The problem of capturing a manner of theatrical performance appears intractable: "It is the fate of actors to leave only picture postcards behind them.
This is what makes the debt crisis so intractable; it is very hard to escape from.UPDATE: It seems the credit card call was down to "sloppy drafting" of the original speech.
The former Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament activist had brokered what looks like the biggest nuclear de-escalation of an era, the diplomatic breakthrough of the decade, a problem and a dispute so intractable it could have led to a devastating war engulfing the entire Middle East and beyond.
Given the news out of Baghdad, it's only natural that people would choose to focus on catastrophes unfolding in real time, but the longer that global warming is ignored the more intractable it becomes — a point made forcefully last week in a report issued by the British government.
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As much as it might feel intractable now, it's not irredeemable.
It becomes pretty much intractable as it increases in mass.
On Friday, we were glad to see Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton publicly warn China, which seems especially intractable, that it faces diplomatic isolation if it fails to back new sanctions.
The tragic situation in Zimbabwe appears intractable, but it shouldn't be and it isn't.
(When the United Nations wants to draw attention to an issue, it usually gets a day. For a particularly intractable problem, it often gets a year).
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