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.
It is simply one of those intractable situations where nothing will feel right.
Foreign intervention in Syria's seemingly intractable conflict is nothing new.
This intractable opposition, of course, is why absolutely nothing is getting done on Capitol Hill in the name of economic recovery.
One about 45 minutes away from me offers treatment to fix back pain and injury-related pain, but nothing on their website mentions the invisible chronic pain that is most intractable because it is caused by incurable conditions.
If they fail, the world's attention span will be exhausted, charitable donors and governments will turn to other matters and AIDS will be relegated in the public consciousness to being yet another intractable problem of the poor world about which little or nothing can be done.For now, though, the money is flowing.
Her situation and her terrible prognosis reminded Mr. Johnson of nothing more than his New Mexico backyard, with headstrong wildflowers blooming where they choose and intractable weeds exploding by night.
Mr. Masur and I wanted to do "Antigonae," but the strange instrumentation proved intractable; most of the Philharmonic would have had to be paid for doing nothing.
She plays Suzanne Pujol, whose late father founded an umbrella factory in northern France, which her husband, Robert (the superb Fabrice Luchini), now runs with an intractable attitude to all his workers, except for his secretary, Nadège (Karin Viard), towards whom he is nothing but tractable.
Unfortunately, corruption remained intractable.
