intractable
Voters asked the candidates about the intractability of problems like health care or immigration.
They are worn down by the sheer intractability of some of the work.
The intractability of the crisis has exhausted the patience of the international community.

SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Complexity
advanced
all-singing
baroque
baroquely
be more to something than meets the eyeidiom
fancily
finicky
fractally
high-tech
indirectly
onerousness
ornate
ornately
over-elaborate
over-fussy
tortuously
tortuousness
twisty
ultra-sophisticated
wheels within wheelsidiom

Examples of intractability

intractability
Note that intractability assumptions for random instances are much stronger than complexity-theoretic assumptions, which usually refer only to the worst case.
These often revealed the measure of intractability of the parents, and the problems with any negotiated settlement.
The editors preface each of the sections with clear and instructive commentary, gently introducing the issues and pointing out areas of difficulty and intractability.
The challenge is to face up to the realities of organisational life and to the intractability of age-stereotypes.
With the large number of ways in which the constraints could be relaxed, the challenge is how to avoid intractability and drop in efficiency.
They prove that inequalities (a weak form of negation) lead to intractability.
The frame-of-reference problem, symbol grounding problem, and similar epistemic intractabilities, remain to be fully explained by symbolic theorists.
The intractability of this debate only intensified its vehemence.
This solves the intractability problem of traditional probabilistic modeling, while not sacrificing completeness.
The analytical intractability of even such a simple framework, leads the authors to simulate an agent-based model.
The dynamical model needs to be transformed into a computational model so that computational techniques can be used to overcome the problem of analytical intractability.
It is worth giving a brief historical background of the dispute to understand its intractability and why an accidental nuclear exchange could erupt from it.
To account for the intractability of this representation, they propose a heuristic greedy algorithm.
Given the intractability of information, methodological ingenuity is required.
A major section of the paper is devoted to the intractability of coordination and to ways of overcoming it.
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