Sentence examples for intractable white from inspiring English sources
As an assessment of seemingly intractable white prejudices, Lincoln's supposition that African-Americans would simply want to go elsewhere might appear valid; his administration's provisions to that end laudable.
Addressed to a young black man coming of age in a time of great racial upheaval just as Baldwin's book was, Between the World and Me uses its author's experience as a guide of sorts to the intractable legacies of white supremacy in much the same way.
Since the 1960's, educators and local officials have known that Roosevelt's school district faced intractable problems as whites moved out, leaving behind a poorer, primarily minority population.
President John F. Kennedy's death and its aftermath became intractable memories rendered in black and white.
Case 1, a 34-year-old female, underwent surgical resection for a multinodular non-enhancing frontal white matter lesion causing intractable epilepsy.
This is how I.Q. is widely understood — as being mainly "in the genes" — and that understanding has been used as a rationale for doing nothing about seemingly intractable social problems like the black-white school-achievement gap and the widening income disparity.
The recent Green 2.0 Report from the University of Michigan showed an intractable "glass ceiling" that keeps non-white participation at an alarming 12 -15% level in the workforce of conservation organizations, public lands management agencies and the philanthropic organizations that undergird them.
What begins as A Simple Case – the title of the issue – becomes a meditation on the meaning of a rich, white vigilante who attempts to solve intractable urban problems by beating up bad guys.
But Washington is still the archetypal Uncle Tom because whites in his day were so intractable that his bargaining came to look like sycophancy.
One of the most intractable confrontations was in Zimbabwe, formerly Rhodesia, where a white minority of settlers unilaterally declared independence in 1965 and later fought a bloody war with nationalist guerrillas that ended only with independence in 1980.
