intractability

But the problem is the sheer intractability of this challenge.

Instead, several participants said, the prince was surprised by their intractability.

"The magnitude of the problem and its intractability is unprecedented."

I don't believe that the sort of intractability there is in nature has very much to teach us.

What intractability means in practice is open to debate.

A curious child, he thought, self-willed to the point of intractability.

And since then, the 12-nation community has found itself increasingly haunted by the intractability of Yugoslavia's problems.

Its security is based on the intractability of certain discrete logarithm problems.

While I'm not a big fan of nature, its intractability amuses me no end.

Japan's 50-year drug war against methamphetamine reveals the intractability of the trade.

Mayor Barry offers an additional explanation for the intractability of the drug problem.

There is a sort of Zen peacefulness in the intractability.

With other girls it might well increase their intractability, their hostility.

The intractability of 'race' as a problem is not open to discussion in these texts.

There seemed to be an intractability about some aspects of human existence outside the consulting-room too.

Neither the reality nor the intractability of my hero and heroine surprised me.

That being the case, they were reduced to communicating with each other across vast stretches of intractability.

Iridium Communications is an example of the problem's intractability.

Her rebellious intractability on that score still persists; she has little interest in playing new music.

Frequently, strategies were adopted which camouflaged the intractability of this particular problem.

Indeed, the large literature on the subject is a reflection of the intractability of the problem.

In the course of five nights the pro- and anti-gun intractability emerges.

Problems like intractability and commonsense knowledge seemed much more immediate and serious.

But few of them are likely to have matched the intractability of this building, which refuses to be finished.

Hate him as she might for his intractability, sheer common sense forced her to agree with him.