Sentence examples similar to intractable stand from inspiring English sources

The successful conclusion to one of the Cold War's most intractable stand-offs suggests they finally got it.

Last week, Georgia Republican Governor Nathan Deal, flanked by dozens of families with children suffering from rare and intractable medical conditions, stood on the steps of the state capitol and signed the state's first medical marijuana bill into law.

From Gladstone on, liberal Britain has had a penchant for taking quixotic stands against intractable expressions of evil in the human condition, even at the risk of ridicule.

Ironic, intractable, angry and culpably plain, Jane stood stubbornly apart from the blueprint of Victorian femininity.

In my tests, I did not pursue two methods known for balky setup and intractable incompatibilities with printers: use of a stand-alone print server (a device that sits between the printer's U.S.B. port and the router's Ethernet port to bridge the networking gap) and a Wi-Fi router with an integrated print server.

— Two trailers in this wealthy beach town stand as testament to an increasingly intractable problem for localities across the country: where to let sex offenders live after prison.

Mr. Schily's stand has also opened up an intractable debate on whether 1991 legislation opening up the Stasi files went too far in its determination to expose the vast web of espionage that made the former East Germany one of the most spied-on societies in history.

So is Rian Johnson paying homage here, or setting intractable puzzles, or has he forged something that stands up on its own?

We drove beneath a raised crossing gate, angled like a satyr's intractable erection, then continued past acacia groves and cypress stands toward the rising sun".

He believes that the desperation of migrants allied with the profits that smugglers stand to make means it has become an intractable problem.

Under the younger Assad, it has strengthened its 30-year-old strategic alliance with the Islamic Republic of Iran, ramped up weapons deliveries to Hizbullah, the intractable and well-armed Shia movement in Lebanon, and promoted a hardline stand by Hamas, a Palestinian Islamist group that pioneered suicide attacks on Israeli civilians.