Sentence examples for over intractable from inspiring English sources

They were up with me on the podium that night, playing baseball for the Yankees, writing the book they never wrote or getting the girl they never got".His has been a triumph of ambition over intractable matter, a fulfilment of Mahler's faith in Arthur Schopenhauer's idea that the human will can overcome any force on earth.

LONDON — After a decade of struggling inconclusively to keep the worldwide Anglican Communion from breaking apart over intractable issues like women clergy, gay bishops and same-sex marriage, the Most Rev. Rowan Williams, the archbishop of Canterbury, announced Friday that he would step down at the end of the year to take up a senior position at Cambridge University.

But the downgrade is almost a sideshow compared with the real reason that stocks started falling Monday morning, before panic set in and the momentum of the market took over: the intractable problems in the European Union, which look a lot more like the United States banking crisis circa 2008 than what's happening on this side of the Atlantic now.

People have come to blows over less intractable questions.

But he acknowledged people's frustrations over the intractable partisanship standing in the way.

And yet, for him and his comrades, this life seems like an improvement over the intractable poverty of the countryside.

The transition in and out of his story is awkward, and all too often the effect is bathos rather than pathos, as for instance when the visitor contrasts the difficulties of tugging a container of computer paper over the intractable ice with the problems Scott had pulling his sledge.

Paris is widely seen as a last chance for the UN process, which has been running since 1992 but has suffered a series of highs and lows, including the 1997 Kyoto protocol which went unratified by the US, the drama of the Copenhagen summit, and long wrangling over seemingly intractable issues such as how to provide financial incentives for cuts in emissions and a price on carbon.

Those expecting her to charge up San Juan Hill over every intractable problem may still be disappointed; but she showed herself to be a smart, confident woman ready to take on know-nothingism and intolerance and defend the middle class.

Watching this crisis roll on towards its fourth year, I want to ride over words like intractable with calculated action.

The hopes raised by the ouster of Mr. Mobutu in Zaire, now Congo, have given way to dismay over a seemingly intractable war.