It's an in-depth journey into each questioner's most intractable life issues, an attempt to draw out the universally relatable aspects of those problems, and a bid to empower that person ― and readers ― to sally forth and fix their own ramshackle life.
United Nations officials have called Congo the epicenter of rape as a weapon of war, and Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton visited rape victims in eastern Congo in 2009 in an effort to draw more attention to one of Africa's most intractable and disturbing conflicts.
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.
Clearly, extreme, intractable versions of these conditions may indeed require vigorous treatment, but the pharmaceutical industry does little to draw a distinction between serious and mild manifestations.
(When the United Nations wants to draw attention to an issue, it usually gets a day. For a particularly intractable problem, it often gets a year).
In fact, the Peninsula was the original intractable insurgency, which, in turn, shaped the modern model of counter-insurgency, and Bell doesn't hesitate to draw parallels between our time and then: "Spain saw the development of a guerrilla war every bit as destructive as — and eerily similar to — the insurgency now under way in early-twenty-first-century Iraq," he writes.
Unless politicians learn to take account of religious feelings and to draw a firm line between church and state, the new wars of religion may prove as intractable.
Israel should then try to draw Syria itself, however malign it has been, into the equation, with the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights as the main price of a peace treaty with Israel.Even if Israel, the Palestinians, Lebanon and Syria were to start horse-trading in earnest, that would still leave the more intractable problems of Iraq and Iran.
But it would have been easy to draw a pessimistic conclusion: it is not comforting that 51% of Indonesians, or about 100m people, do expect a clash.In this section Barking louder, biting less If you want my opinion ReprintsStill, however intractable reality may be, pollsters are under pressure to send a clear message.
These are challenging problems, to be sure, but they are surely not intractable to the optimists drawn to the tech industry.
