Aren't we glad that Iraq has not yet reached the intractable point that North Korea has, and that there are still means of prevention there?
Maier promises "to portray the most intractable crisis points" facing the country, and, at times, he does just that, with great skill.
The most intractable sticking point is over the insistence of Democrats in the Assembly to allow the public — whistleblowers — to bring Medicaid fraud suits on behalf of the government and share the proceeds.
If Mr. Boehner is having as much trouble whipping votes as he did on Thursday night, reducing the pool from which he might be able to draw together a compromise, this arithmetic problem could turn out to be intractable at some point.
It is known that the problem of non-rigid structure from motion (NRSFM) is generally underconstrained and thus intractable, if each point of the object moves arbitrarily.
As the years advance and attitudes become intractable to the point of unsustainability, more heartbreaking than the bitterness is the resignation: you are listening to Sharon Van Etten.
The dense, fraught stories in her collection One More Year mostly feature relationships, or clusters of relationships, negotiated around the fixed points of intractable political realities.
On top of hyperinflation, Britannia has suffered a wave of extinctions, paralyzing hoarding, and a crime problem so intractable that at one point the game was forced to, in effect, split itself in half.
The apparent failure of Secretary Powell's mission has now pushed American diplomacy into the region's most intractable conflict to a point where the political costs at home are rising and the diplomatic costs with the Arab world are steep, and where even the global antiterror campaign could be in jeopardy.
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.
