Sentence examples for intractable matter from inspiring English sources

Her sisters were a more intractable matter.

They were up with me on the podium that night, playing baseball for the Yankees, writing the book they never wrote or getting the girl they never got".His has been a triumph of ambition over intractable matter, a fulfilment of Mahler's faith in Arthur Schopenhauer's idea that the human will can overcome any force on earth.

Yet it is clear on the stump that he yearns for a middle ground even on intractable matters like abortion.

Our generals can solve any problem, no matter how intractable.

Virtually all the Founding Fathers went to their graves realizing that slavery, no matter how intractable, would become the largest and most permanent stain on their legacy.

She was a woman who, no matter how intractable the thirty years war in Europe, was still rooted in the earth and had an incredible regenerative power.

Nearly a dozen years and thousands of deaths later, America and the Taliban are finally going to sit around a negotiation table in Qatar, demonstrating that conflicts — no matter how intractable — ultimately require political rather than military solutions.

Matters as intractable as population must be included.

(I don't need to tell you who's who in that pairing, do I?) At several points in the show he compares world conflicts to brawls of various levels of intensity and complexity, a point of view that epitomizes his blue-collar appeal and knack for reducing the world's intractable macro problems to matters of micro-egoism and macho one-upmanship.

We seemingly face an intractable standoff on fiscal matters.

Past leaders were, among other things, better prepared by both education and experience to deal with the problems they faced, no matter how seemingly intractable.