more intractable

As John Maynard Keynes said of the challenges of overpopulation, the “chaining up of the one devil may, if we are careless, only serve to lose another still fiercer and more intractable.”

The downside of his performance stems, in part, from the fact that the world is more complicated, its problems more intractable, than at almost any time in U.S. history.

“Deadly conflict is becoming more intractable, with big-power competition accelerating and middle powers on the rise,” is how Ms Ero describes the landscape.

For a smaller number of students at the school who qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, the reasons are different, and more intractable.

A more intractable problem is the 4-mile surface segment in south Seattle, which accounts for most of the route’s average of one collision per month, including last weekend, plus occasional non-transit wrecks or crime responses that spill into the median of MLK Way, and clog the train line.