Sentence examples for were intractable from inspiring English sources
adjective
Not easily controlled, governed, managed or directed.
But the antiwar Democrats were intractable.
"People felt those with a different viewpoint were intractable while they were being flexible," Mr. Levitt said.
The idea was even more dubious than indivisibles, but, combined with a perfectly apt notation that facilitated calculations, mathematicians initially ignored any logical difficulties in their joy at being able to solve problems that until then were intractable.
The indications for surgery were intractable pain or infertility.
New Yorkers had been told that both these problems were intractable.
Across the years, one constant theme was periodic rebellion by Muslim Uighurs and a growing sense in Beijing that the locals were intractable, treacherous and violent.
Those are intractable, systemic challenges.
Meanwhile, the biggest problems are intractable.
"These are intractable issues," he said.
