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