But now houses around 1m of them and offices lie empty, the builders' productivity has plummeted, and their woes look set to continue for at least another year.Another, perhaps more intractable, problem for the east has been the exodus of many of its brightest and best.
Although hormone and GF antagonists are effective for some types of cancer, the more intractable cancers, for example, triple-negative malignant lesions, remain incurable.
Seldom mentioned in the national education debate is a much broader and more intractable problem for which few solutions have been proposed: the deep linguistic divide that separates Hong Kong from the rest of China.
The other, and perhaps more intractable reason for the weapons losses is that the U.S. has supplied these guns to allies who are too often corrupt and unreliable.
BBC World Service East Asia editor Charles Scanlon says the confrontation over the small chain of uninhabited islands is made more intractable by conflicting claims for potentially rich energy resources on the sea bed.
Prior to 2012, healthcare professionals employed lifestyle modification and a limited number of modestly effective medications in efforts to combat this disease, with bariatric surgery reserved for more intractable cases [3,14].
In recent months, as the conflict has grown more intractable, people have spoken with yearning for the father figure who could heal a wounded nation.
(Equivalent conditions on the parameters for this to occur are hard to calculate, but Wilson and Cowan, for example, compute a sufficient condition in their original paper [34].) Obtaining any exact analytical information on the position and geometry of the cycles, when they exist, is even more intractable (as one would generally expect for this degree of nonlinearity).
My preference was for something much knottier and more intractable, something that might reflect on the confused lives of the audience as well as on the protagonists.
