intractable problem

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intractable
adjective
uk /ɪnˈtræk.tə.bəl/ us /ɪnˈtræk.tə.bəl/
very difficult or impossible to control, manage, ...
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problem
noun[C]
uk /ˈprɒb.ləm/ us /ˈprɑː.bləm/
a situation, person, or thing that needs attention and needs to be dealt with ...
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Examples of intractable problem

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The difficulty of measuring judicial independence is an intractableproblem that has been addressed by many scholars.
A second major difficulty is the apparently intractableproblem in many high population areas in identifying profitable activities which could support widespread poverty reducing growth.
Evaluation of a search process, however, is generally an intractableproblem.
This example shows how the simplification of the problem yields an efficiently solvable problem from a literally intractableproblem.
Chronic cough lasting 8 weeks or more often seems to be an intractableproblem in childhood.
Clinicians valued sharing the management of patients with an intractableproblem.
Secondly, the intractableproblem of technical feasibility of inoculation is as yet unclear.
Under these conditions, the formation of relevant units would appear to be an intractableproblem.
But defining the recurring units in terms of their common environmental effects solves this otherwise intractableproblem.
The intractableproblem is fraud by senior managers of a company.
The growing human population faces a seemingly intractableproblem.
The issue of the small number of verbs in each semantic class in a test is a more intractableproblem.
A particularly intractableproblem is that courts, by their very nature, lack the institutional capacity to oversee the implementation of power-sharing in spirit as well in letter.
The basic idea is that, should it be the case that manipulating successfully is a computationally intractableproblem, then manipulability may well be deemed an acceptable risk.
We go on to argue that for many functions, especially in the higher-order case, findingfixedpoints is an intractableproblem unless the sizes of the abstract domains are reduced.
Despite various creative approaches, a pervasive and intractableproblem is to derive representative samples of minority ethnic older people in the absence of a comprehensive and reliable sampling frame.
Drought is an intractableproblem that puts the livelihoods of millions of poor at risk every crop season.
This preliminary finding of an interaction between different aspects of verb input in verb learning might provide further leads in cracking the apparently intractableproblem of verb acquisition.
He stated that it is a most intractableproblem.
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Clearly, there is this intractableproblem of combined purchasing and development.
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