intractable

Adjective complement with noun phrase

make: The present shortage of supply teachers makes this problem intractable in many schools.

Modifies a noun

• epilepsy: Five patients, who all had intractable epilepsy, took part.
• seizure: ECG changes in patients with intractable partial seizures have been studied; 51 seizures in 43 subjects were analyzed 42.
• problem: Some of the most intractable problems faced by the NHS are cultural.
• dispute: Very often, a seemingly intractable dispute can actually be resolved in one or two days!
• pain: Terri, Midwife, Devon, UK Hi from Norway, where midwives do use sterile water papules for intractable back pain in labor.
• conflict: This dispute remains one of the most intractable international conflicts in the world.

Modifying Another Word

• analytically: The Mathematical Tripos includes Computational Project courses which train students to solve analytically intractable mathematical problems using computers.
• computationally: These computationally intractable sums or integrals can be avoided by using approximate Bayesian methods.
• seemingly: A chemical approach may, however, be used to dissect many of the seemingly intractable problems which have been posed.
• medically: For many patients with medically intractable temporal lobe epilepsy, surgical intervention may be the only chance for patients to be rendered seizure-free.
• hitherto: Now, in addition to controlling Common Couch, Attribut also offers a solution to this hitherto intractable weed problem.
• apparently: In the event of an apparently intractable contractual dispute, individual parties should seek professional legal advice.

Used with adjective complement

• prove: Thus far, North Korea has proved intractable on the issue.
• appear: In many cases, even where problems have appeared intractable over many months, we are able to agree a satisfactory settlement within weeks.
• seem: Disputes which once seemed totally intractable have been solved.
• remain: A number of issues have only recently been finally resolved, with some remaining intractable.
• become: Problems have a habit of becoming more intractable the longer they are left.
• consider: There too, there is an exacting cultural reclamation of theme and material previously considered intractable to creative expression.