intractability

The federal government has pledged $300 million to the intractable border sewage problem, which allows millions of gallons of untreated sewage to pour into the Pacific Ocean.

This effort follows others in Baltimore that have had some success tackling the intractable health problems of violence and overdose deaths.

There’s a long list of other intractable problems in the vision, too.

It’s an ingenious workaround for an otherwise intractable problem.

Few problems are longer-term or more intractable than America’s systemic racial inequality.

The press gets involved, the Twittersphere goes wild, and all the seeds of intractability are sown.

But for spring 2012, the designer's intractability paid off.

One reason for the current intractability is that U.S. businesses over-reacted to the initial downturn.

We can admit the intractability of depravation, and still strive for dignity.

A vexatious delay occurred from the intractability of the mules, which persistently refused to allow themselves to be caught.

There is a disparity between the inner intractability and the external regularity of these poems.

Forced by some act of the city to abandon one idea, the next that followed found a new intractability.

John Northcote was Sheriff just at this time, and was most probably held responsible for the intractability of his countrymen.

The legate returned to Rome, in despair at the hot-headed monarch's intractability.