Paul Greengrass

I've seen a lot of political violence in my life. I know what it looks like. I know what it smells like. I know what motivates young men to do it. I've talked to them about it. I know what victims feel like, you know? I know the abominable effect it has on politics. I know how intractable it is.

English Director

Alain de Botton

The Arab-Israeli conflict is also in many ways a conflict about status: it's a war between two peoples who feel deeply humiliated by the other, who want the other to respect them. Battles over status can be even more intractable than those over land or water or oil.

English Writer

Hilary Mantel

The novelist has a responsibility to adhere to the facts as closely as possible, and if they are inconvenient, that's where the art comes in. You must work with intractable facts and find the dramatic shape inside them.

Sharan Burrow

Globalization has much potential. It could be the answer to many of the world's seemingly intractable problems. But this requires strong democratic foundations based on a political will to ensure equity and justice.

Welsh Activist

Clayton M. Christensen

If we are to develop profound theory to solve the intractable problems in our societally-critical domains... we must learn to crawl into the life of what makes people tick.

American Author

Ben Bernanke

Honest error in the face of complex and possibly intractable problems is a far more important source of bad results than are bad motives.

American Public Servant

Priyamvada Natarajan

I'm an astrophysicist and a professor, so my day job involves manipulating intractable numbers that characterize our universe.

Indian Scientist

Katherine Boo

A great deal of what is presumed to be intractable or inevitable in this world doesn't strike me that way at all.

American Journalist

Joe Lonsdale

Many of humanity's most intractable challenges will only be solved through market-driven innovation.

American Businessman

Stacey Abrams

I like solving problems that seem intractable. That's how I thrive.

American Politician

Used for problems with no easy solution, typically social, political, or economic issues.

Hard to Solve

Implies that the problem is not only difficult but also enduring over time.

Persistent Issue

Often used metaphorically to describe abstract dilemmas, not just physical struggles.

Not Literal

Highlights a person's firm stance, indicating they are unlikely to be swayed.

Beyond Persuasion

May carry a negative emotional tone, suggesting frustration with someone's stubbornness.

Emotional Tone

Can sometimes be seen as positive, implying a strong, principled stance.

Not Always Negative

Refers to materials that cannot be easily shaped, emphasizing their physical properties.

Physical Rigidity

Most common in technical or industrial contexts where physical characteristics matter.

Specialized Use

While technical, it can be used metaphorically to describe a rigid situation or system.

Metaphorical Extension

 get when you go to college where you do kind of get a mix of people that you might not interact with otherwise but the point is this is all good news because when something is predictable it's what I call design a book we can start thinking about solutions to solving that problem even a problem is pernicious and as intractable as racism

Does racism affect how...

 And all anyone had done was say that one word -- pornography. That moment would prove to be an important turning point for me and my professional mission of finding solutions to end dating and sexual violence. At that point, I'd been working for more than a decade on this seemingly intractable problem of dating violence.

How porn changes the way...

 What I learned from these people and others was that I couldn't judge them based on their failure to meet their very lofty goals. Many of them are working in deeply intractable systems -- the military, congress, the education system, etc. But what they managed to do within those systems

Courtney Martin:...

 It all feeds in as minute reinforcement. Fourth, feedback. This is absolutely crucial, and virtuality is dazzling at delivering this. If you look at some of the most intractable problems in the world today that we've been hearing amazing things about,

Tom Chatfield: 7 ways...

 We must kill them then. We must kill them then. This man, this priest, whose own wife was falsely accused, still believes that witches must be punished. In so many ways this tells me how deep and intractable the belief in is here.

A Belief in Black Magic...

 not just for them but for us and our future. Escalating disgust and intractable conflict are not what we want for ourselves, or our country or our next generation. My mom said something to me a few weeks before I left Westboro,

I grew up in the...

 and incapable of establishing any kind of peace or reconciliation. Two years later, and the deterioration was dramatic. By now, I had the whole frenzied terrifying voices, grotesque visions, bizarre, intractable delusions.

The voices in my head PIPE...

 Then, when we look to the future, there could be so much more to gain again. We'll be so much richer, we can solve so many problems that are intractable today. So if this is kind of a graph of how humanity has progressed

What are the most...

 As I said before, the advent of mRNA vaccines is heralding in an entirely new era of medicines. mRNAs give us the ability to not only prevent disease but also treat previously intractable disorders.

How mRNA Medicine Will...

 it's the best thing that's happened to the UN in our lifetime it might even change the culture of that obtuse intractable impenetrable male fortress

Intractable

Hard to Solve

Persistent Issue

Not Literal

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