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1. They did not consider that the value of those metals has, in all ages and nations, arisen chiefly from their scarcity, and that their scarcity has arisen from the very small quantities of them which nature has anywhere deposited in one place, from the hard and intractable substances with which she has almost everywhere surrounded those small quantities, and consequently from the labour and expense which are everywhere necessary in order to penetrate, and get at them
2. The princes of the house of Stuart sometimes employed the like means in order to influence some of the members of the parliament of England, and they generally found them equally intractable
3. The Reds are fueled by a religious fervor that is intractable
4. Initially, Edgar was an effective team player, but as time wore on, the intractable corruption within the department sickened him
5. He was white-faced with the intractable back pain that couldn’t be relieved by surgery, and the terrible drugs he had to take to endure it
6. At that point, it’s not “hard” to solve an intractable problem, it’s not “hard” to write a
7. It seems he’s been intractable
8. Many in Washington had said that the situation there was truly intractable but, as you often have done in the past, you have again proven your critics wrong
9. This was a remarkable breakthrough; an achievement that, a few weeks earlier, had appeared impossible until Barclay himself had proposed a solution to the seemingly intractable problem which they had encountered during their research
10. “So the UK shuffles off one of its longest standing and most intractable problems on us, does it?” asked Greg Harvey
11. Writing the story would take too long, and their enthusiasm was on a crest of an intractable wave
12. The archbishop was already battling intractable difficulties within the church
13. Filled, then, with warm intentions, with affection and with pity, the cousin by blood and the cousin by marriage arrived, only to find the cousin they had come to benefit intractable
14. She was a wild child, stubborn and opinionated and intractable
15. intractable the situation that will shape up with my departure will be
16. They are intractable fools who think they know themselves
17. Religion is one of the greatest and most intractable causes of human ignorance and results in a reality
18. When he looked about him for another and a less intractable damsel to immortalize in melody, memory produced one with the most obliging readiness
19. For there might be a poetry which would be the hymn of divine perfection, the harmony of goodness and truth among men: a strain which should renew the youth of the world, and bring back the ages in which the poet was man's only teacher and best friend,--which would find materials in the living present as well as in the romance of the past, and might subdue to the fairest forms of speech and verse the intractable materials of modern civilisation,--which might elicit the simple principles, or, as Plato would have called them, the essential forms, of truth and justice out of the variety of opinion and the complexity of modern society,--which would preserve all the good of each generation and leave the bad unsung,--which should be based not on vain longings or faint imaginings, but on a clear insight into the nature of man
20. Whether his dialogues were framed on the model of the lost dialogues of Aristotle, as he himself tells us, or of Plato, to which they bear many superficial resemblances, he is still the Roman orator; he is not conversing, but making speeches, and is never able to mould the intractable Latin to the grace and ease of the Greek Platonic dialogue
21. The spirit which served her was growing intractable: she could neither lay nor control it
22. He was, too, very learned, and rational enough on all points which did not relate to his treasure; but on that, indeed, he was intractable
23. His work gave him pleasure, especially when he came up with clever solutions to intractable problems; but it was a cold, cerebral satisfaction, and he knew that his life would be a long winter without Caris
24. But people with family members suffering from intractable mental illness—especially schizophrenia and schizoaffective disorders—remember this as the moment when clozapine arrived
25. She’s looking more intractable than ever
26. Past the pale hairs that edged his eustachian tubes, past the trapped volume of air between ear and wood, the scuffed surface of the floor and its tough intractable heart, the narrow-gauge pipes, frayed wire, rat-runs along the joists
27. A heuristic is a rule of thumb, a cognitive shortcut that can quickly find the answer to a problem that might otherwise be intractable
28. Time, which brings so many revenges, now finds us dealing with an intractable balance-of-payments problem of our own, part of which is ascribable to the large-scale purchase of foreign bonds by American investors seeking a small advantage in yield
29. Imagine if just some of this money went to solving previously intractable problems like hunger, human trafficking, and access to clean water? In the US, it takes one dollar to provide ten meals to needy individuals
30. It seems, in fact, as though there existed in certain men a veritable bestial instinct, though pure and upright, like all instincts, which creates antipathies and sympathies, which fatally separates one nature from another nature, which does not hesitate, which feels no disquiet, which does not hold its peace, and which never belies itself, clear in its obscurity, infallible, imperious, intractable, stubborn to all counsels of the intelligence and to all the dissolvents of reason, and which, in whatever manner destinies are arranged, secretly warns the man-dog of the presence of the man-cat, and the man-fox of the presence of the man-lion
31. Captain Fannicot, a bold and impatient bourgeois, a sort of condottiere of the order of those whom we have just characterized, a fanatical and intractable governmentalist, could not resist the temptation to fire prematurely, and the ambition of capturing the barricade alone and unaided, that is to say, with his company
