more intractable

“Deadly conflict is becoming more intractable, with big-power competition accelerating and middle powers on the rise,” is how Ms Ero describes the landscape.

For a smaller number of students at the school who qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, the reasons are different, and more intractable.

A more intractable problem is the 4-mile surface segment in south Seattle, which accounts for most of the route’s average of one collision per month, including last weekend, plus occasional non-transit wrecks or crime responses that spill into the median of MLK Way, and clog the train line.

If you keep people from becoming homeless, keep their issues from getting deeper and more intractable.

In a series of huge street protests in Belgrade, demonstrators have accused the government of focusing on gun control in order to avoid dealing with deeper and more intractable social ills, particularly among young people.