intractability

intractable | American Dictionary

intractable
adjective
us/ɪnˈtræk·tə·bəl/
difficult or impossible to manage or control:
intractable problems
an intractable child

Examples of intractable

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The system may, however, be intractable as a deterministic system in the practical sense, because it contains too many degrees of freedom.
Nevertheless, this book is an impressive assimilation of the wealth and diversity of past and present research on a highly intractable but important disease.
But this framework would be useless if it were computationally intractable.
Giving physicians an economic incentive to reduce patient services thus creates intractable ethical difficulties for physicians practicing in managed care arrangements.
Mainstream archaeologists overall have regarded gender as one of the more intractable fields of discourse in their domain.
Since very large optimization problems are intractable for complete solution methods, heuristic search methods are usually employed.
Since the number of possible structure hypotheses is more than exponential in the number of variables, this is clearly intractable in general.
Both groups faced intractable problems where resources were inadequate and no satisfactory solution was visible.
The processional music demonstrates an even more intractable interaction between the real and imagined.
The difficulty of measuring judicial independence is an intractable problem that has been addressed by many scholars.
Her carefully detailed study illustrates how complex and intractable both political phenomena were.
It is therefore evident that a global search of the entire solution space has a tendency to be computationally intractable.
First, a realistic market structure may require specifying a complicated structure of clusters and rendering the resulting model analytically intractable.
Elevation of clinical management above other management concerns, such as administrative or resource, made these problems more intractable.
An exact method to resolve a decision situation is inherently intractable, because it typically involves search, which is usually intractable.
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