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.
(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.
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.
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.
This allegation was followed by mob attacks against ethnic Vietnamese, which resulted in five deaths.With matters looking increasingly intractable, hopes have been pinned on King Norodom Sihanouk.
On matters that are intractable the prince's goal should be to avoid action or decision.
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.
Case 1, a 34-year-old female, underwent surgical resection for a multinodular non-enhancing frontal white matter lesion causing intractable epilepsy.
