Sentence examples for tractable from inspiring English sources

In the world view Rubio outlined Wednesday, which he billed as a new doctrine, certain regional conflicts that look very difficult – the ongoing war in Syria, the failed state of Libya – in fact began as tractable problems that spun out of control due to tragic US negligence.

Rather than fretting that China is buying European firms on the cheap, European governments these days are competing to attract Chinese investment (see article).It helps that China has become more tractable in trade disputes.

According to Peter Piot, head of UNAIDS, this deadly combination is compounded by poverty which hobbles prevention programmes, cripples health-care systems and makes costly drugs unattainable and a "criminal waste of time" by many African governments which failed to tackle the epidemic at its early, tractable stages.

It is much less tractable than that, because it is also about the periodic claim of each side that the other is not a people at all at least not a people deserving sovereign statehood in the Middle East".

The bank's mission, on the other hand, now spans all the world's least tractable problems.

Piers Forster of Leeds University, in England, one of the study's authors, argues that if people did everything they could to reduce black-carbon emissions, it would strip half a degree of temperature rise out of the process of global warming or, to put it another way, would give politicians two extra decades to tackle the less tractable question of what to do about CO2.

But chances are slim that negotiators will come up with a document that can serve as the basis for an agreement at the higher-level discussions taking place in Cancun, in Mexico, this December.Other questions are even less tractable.

This is a violation of "rationality", and yet as an alternative canonical principle it is theoretically tractable: settled models of economic behaviour can be built up from this starting-point.Debt to societyIn his paper, Mr Thaler looks further ahead and suggests new directions for this kind of research.

He was trying to make the slippery problem of the evolution of human culture as tractable as that of biological evolution, and he thought that if cultural information could somehow be divided into separately transmissible elements, in the way that biologically heritable information is divided into genes, the rest might follow.

HENRY KISSINGER never actually asked who he should call when he wanted to call Europe; in fact, Gideon Rachman pointed out a few years ago, he probably didn't even want there to be such a person, since he generally thought European leaders would be more tractable to American diplomacy if they remained divided.

It has since spread in concentric circles each year and is now eating into maize crops in Germany and Italy.These problems are onerous, but most are probably tractable.