Sentence examples for was intractable from inspiring English sources
adjective
Not easily controlled, governed, managed or directed.
Mr. Salinas's lawyer said the disagreement was intractable and must be resolved by the Supreme Court.
Reagan was intractable on the subjects of the Iran-Contra affair and the savings-and-loan crisis.
For years, the struggle was intractable, but by 1976 he had begun to work on the book that he would never, ever, talk about: Darkness Visible.
Land reform was intractable at the time when the FARC began their struggle in 1964, and it remains a vexing issue today.
"There were people who said the problem of corruption in this state was intractable, and that not only could nobody make a difference, but nobody cared," he said, speaking to his rapt audience without notes.
Invited back in February by his successor as secretary general, Ban Ki-moon, to serve as the special envoy to Syria for both the United Nations and the Arab League, Mr. Annan, 74, appeared to put aside what to many others seemed obvious: the conflict in Syria was intractable, enormously complicated and unsolvable by diplomacy alone.
Those are intractable, systemic challenges.
Meanwhile, the biggest problems are intractable.
But the antiwar Democrats were intractable.
