Sentence examples for virtually intractable from inspiring English sources
Our nation is seeing huge numbers of its citizens slide into actual — and virtually intractable, if we keep hold of President Bush's policies — poverty.
It should have taught us that preventing problems is easier, and certainly less costly, than dealing with them when they become virtually intractable.
Now, the industry is blaming consumers for resisting efforts to reduce salt in all foods, pointing to, as Kellogg put it in a letter to a federal nutrition advisory committee, "the virtually intractable nature of the appetite for salt".
Difficult, almost intractable problems.
To collaborate on the most intractable crises?
Cancer looks as intractable as ever, spinal cord injury remains virtually incurable, and we still have only marginal therapies to offer victims of multiple sclerosis, Alzheimer's disease, schizophrenia and arthritis.
One study of seventeen patients with intractable cancer pain found that thirteen were virtually pain free and only four required opioid analgesics on release from hospital after the intervention.
That is, virtually all proponents of public reason assume that there is deep and intractable disagreement amongst some people, and this disagreement is not simply the result of irrationality, prejudice, or self-interest, but rather arises as a result of the normal functioning of human reasoning under reasonably favorable conditions.
Virtually all the Founding Fathers went to their graves realizing that slavery, no matter how intractable, would become the largest and most permanent stain on their legacy.
Unfortunately, corruption remained intractable.
