Sentence examples for is less intractable from inspiring English sources

But Stephie's foster mother is less intractable than she first seems.

That would give it a primary budget surplus of 4.5% of GDP a surplus that would need to be sustained all the way to 2020 just to bring its debt down to the levels at which Irish and Portuguese debt is expected to peak in 2013.The fiscal woes of the other two bailed-out countries are less intractable.

Patients are assigned priority 1 if they require CABG urgently (eg, left main coronary artery stenosis greater than 70%, MRWT three days); priority 2 if there is moderate urgency (eg persistent unstable angina, MRWT six weeks); or priority 3 if there is less urgency (eg intractable chronic angina, MRWT 12 weeks).

The world has been broadly successful in harnessing economic growth to improve delivery of basic needs, but rising wealth is less effective in tackling more intractable, less tangible problems like intolerance and exclusion, and policies to tackle these are needed, according to the latest Social Progress Index.

Others, such as changes to the conspiracy laws, smack of desperation in the face of an intractable problem.British organised crime is less flamboyant than its American counterpart, and less flashy than it used to be.

In most of the prior work we have surveyed[46, 47], the number of signal classes is less than 35, which doesn't make our approach intractable.

Internal challenges, especially from Islamists, are proving less intractable than was feared.Arab leaders are dab hands at setting up parliaments and advisory councils with a semblance of independence but no real power.

Freud was on less intractable ground with the award-winning television commercial in which he and his bloodhound friend Henry - in reality a number of different dogs, all equally hangdog in appearance to him - endorsed Minced Morsels.

The issue is intractable, and the solutions are less than clear.

Mr Mbeki was less successful in his personal efforts to mediate in Côte d'Ivoire, but that is probably the continent's most intractable conflict now.

If Mr. Obama has established any management pattern to this point, it is that he generally seeks to broaden his options even while preserving continuity — to demonstrate that he is, in effect, less intractable than Mr. Bush but also less politically malleable than Mr. Clinton.