Sentence examples for intractable land from inspiring English sources

Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates said last week the United States could ill afford another intractable land war in the Middle East.

THERE are many reasons why the Israeli-Palestinian conflict has remained so intractable: land, religion, national identity, history, the scars of violence, the meddling of outside powers and global ideological strife.

Mike Murphy, a longtime Republican strategist who has worked on caucus campaigns and Iowa governor's races over the years, likes to compare the famed straw poll here to intractable "land wars in Asia," offering more risk than reward to establishment hopefuls.

Land reform was intractable at the time when the FARC began their struggle in 1964, and it remains a vexing issue today.

Might the bitter and intractable battle in the Holy Land provide the occasion for making Europe a real, working toll-free number?

They failed to make any substantive progress on their intractable conflict over Kashmir, a land claimed by both nations, or on reducing the risks of a nuclear exchange.

But problems arise in reality that don't come up in cyberspace, including vainglorious dictators, pompous architects, bureaucratic impedimenta and the fact that much of the best land is already inhabited by those intractable objects: pesky humans.

Optimally allocating cellphone spectrum, advertisements on the Internet, and landing slots at airports is computationally intractable.

But, except for brief intervals, the princes and bishops were left free to fight for the future of their lands against one another and against the intractable lesser lords who refused to accept their domination.

The articles by Roger Cohen ("The forgotten American," Globalist, July 27) and James Carroll ("In pursuit of the 'much too holy land,' " Views, July 27) serve to illustrate that the intractable dispute between Israel and its Arab neighbors has become immutable.

Today, the Yamuna Expressway is again under construction, and if some farmers are still not satisfied, the project is now regarded as a tentative sign of progress in India's wrenching fights over land, one of the most serious yet seemingly intractable challenges facing the country.