Ebadi shouldered the country's most intractable human rights cases pro bono.
Let's call for the "Justice Disruptors" to work on the most intractable human rights violations of our time: we shall pledge to eradicate injustice, slavery and gender inequity.
We do not, however, suggest that public health ethics currently offers a universally applicable set of norms, nor that it offers to resolve intractable human rights dilemmas such as its cross-cultural relevance to practices like female genital mutilation.
On the other intractable issue -- the right of Palestinian refugees to return to Israel -- Mr. Herzog said Israel would affirm the right of refugees to return but would hold veto power over individual applications.
After all, the solution to what seems an intractable problem is sometimes right under your nose.
The Administration has spent three years trying to please the wrong right, an intractable group of self-promoting radicals, while ignoring the right "left" - a progressive movement that has come to speak for the American majority on jobs, taxes, Social Security, and Medicare.
Made by the team behind the 2006 film "Jesus Camp," the movie is a remarkably evenhanded exploration of the intractable divide between abortion-rights and anti-abortion advocates on a street corner in Fort Pierce, Fla.
Perhaps the most intractable problem facing the economy right now is the plight of the long-term unemployed.
