Sentence examples for intractable world from inspiring English sources

The alternative is to risk another Tiananmen – or the creation of an intractable world power that tolerates dissenting opinions abroad as little as it does at home.

The visit is part of a larger push by Mr. da Silva to wade into the seemingly intractable world of Middle East politics, and follows visits in the last two weeks by Israel's president, Shimon Peres, and Mahmoud Abbas, president of the Palestinian Authority.

In a violent region of a violent country, ordinary folk embodied new attitudes and methods with which they confronted seemingly intractable world views.

Chronic childhood malnutrition remains one of the most intractable public health problems throughout the developing world including Ghana [ 1].

That problem seems almost intractable.The world's biggest companies rely for their annual audits on a tight oligopoly of just four accounting firms.

Yet this wasn't for Dickens an altogether melancholy thought, for he had a powerful sense of excitement when he contemplated the intractable human world.

That their camaraderie comes to a bad end is ordained, both by the film's structure and by its intractable real-world context, and in narrative terms, Major Jean's discovery of the truth may feel anticlimactically simple.

LONDON — Who is next in line for "mission impossible" after Kofi Annan quit his role as international peace envoy to Syria in the face of intractable divisions among world powers over how to end the conflict?

The conflict between India and Pakistan over the Himalayan territory of Kashmir is one of the most volatile and intractable in the world, but the past week has brought the first tentative signs since intense fighting last summer that tensions may be lessening, if only for a while.

To get an idea of how long overdue we are for another major immigration reform, here are nine seemingly intractable obstacles the world has overcome since the last time the United States passed comprehensive immigration legislation.

The bookshop fire set the stage for a moment of national catharsis; it was a small problem that could be fixed in a world of intractable conflicts.