Innovations like these put new ideas to work to solve seemingly intractable problems.

I have never been involved in a negotiation with so many complex and seemingly intractable issues at stake.

It should be one which presents a seemingly intractable problem.

But remember: you have to believe that the seemingly intractable problem can be cracked.

The program is "an easy target" for people who are frustrated by the seemingly intractable drug problem in the neighborhood, he said.

Government is hard, the problems are complex and in many cases seemingly intractable.

Difficult decisions and concessions had to be made by all sides to end the seemingly intractable conflict.

Almost every governor I talk to faces a seemingly intractable shortfall.

Then there is the seemingly intractable issue of how a Jewish museum should be established.

The county's success in confronting what was a seemingly intractable problem among its black population is a small victory but not an isolated one.