Sentence examples for intractable struggle from inspiring English sources

I had been to Daisen-in earlier that week, and at my first sight of the mounds I surprised myself by bursting into tears, perhaps because, for all its austerity, the garden is an image of release: of the moment at which, after an intractable struggle, you get permission from yourself to let the inessential go.

In the great conflict in the Muslim world which has endured since the death of Mohammad in 632 AD and recently intensified, the Saudis are locked in an intractable struggle with Shiites and their leader, Iran.

While the initiatives are a success on many levels, the projects have also faced numerous challenges: design and safety concerns; misconceptions about public use versus private; and the city's seemingly intractable struggles with poverty and substance abuse.

Sustainable peace requires the full participation of women at all stages of the peace process, yet as history has shown, they have been largely excluded from formal efforts to develop and implement fresh, workable solutions to seemingly intractable struggles.

The charges come at a time of a deep economic downturn and political discord in Ukraine, with a seemingly intractable power struggle between President Yushchenko and his main pro-Western rival, Prime Minister Yulia V. Tymoshenko.

The geography is bookended by two volatile struggles, intractable for more than half a century: the Palestinian-Israeli conflict and Kashmir.

Inherent to its intractable nature is the struggle to hide, to overcome, to expiate.

All cultures struggle with intractable mental illnesses with varying degrees of compassion and cruelty, equanimity and fear.

For years, the struggle was intractable, but by 1976 he had begun to work on the book that he would never, ever, talk about: Darkness Visible.

Steinberg lived for three more years and much of the time struggled with intractable depression.

Set in the near future, a new government of indeterminate party, led by a prime minister of considerable wisdom and other atypical qualities, is struggling with intractable problems of political disengagement, growing inequality, climate change and terrorism.