But it's still a far cry from the vicious and seemingly intractable war in Syria.
Elsewhere, it's more of the same: Everywhere Microsoft makes money, the Web poses almost intractable dilemmas.
But it also illustrates just how intractable the issue of nitrate pollution has become.
The conflict implied by the corrosive Islamofascist mash-up is one the social scientists call intractable.
Deep depression is so intractable that even electroshock therapy takes a week to kick in.
Some 2, 300 years later, that terrain is just as isolate, just as formidable, just as intractable.
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Your dynamics with your colleagues, no matter how well established, are not permanent and intractable.
Whether intractable social problems can be solved quite so magically is open to doubt.
And Mr Yushchenko should not be blamed for some of Ukraine's most intractable problems.
The biggest and most intractable of them has historic links with the centre-left Democratic Party (PD).
This is not just the biggest and most intractable trade row to come before the agency.
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Mr Bell said that in those circumstances, raising pupils' attainment could seem "an almost intractable problem".
Whether he has the qualities to solve Indonesia's various intractable problems remains to be seen.
But the young Mr Kabila makes an improbable peace-broker for such an intractable conflict.
Unless the country acts to tackle this, its decline will become intractable for three reasons.
The closer you look at South Korea, the more intractable many of its ills seem.
The same is true of those tackling some of the world's most intractable problems.
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Next, the new tax deal has made America's long-term fiscal problems even more intractable.
Rather, we have the conditions under which people have powerful incentives to solve seemingly intractable problems.
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The more polarized, caustic and poorly analyzed an issue, the more intractable it becomes.
But they are not a miraculous answer to one of America's most intractable problems.
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But they also acknowledged the intractable dilemma at the heart of this sort of conservation.
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Even if it were passed, it would not make much difference to other intractable policy problems.
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Simpson says the region's problems may seem intractable, but there's a hopeful precedent for an eventual solution.
Leaving only the intractable core of that natural monopoly to be either public or private and regulated.
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Again and again, she explained that Americans were not overspending, but were suffering from intractable economic headwinds.
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The more intractable problem facing technology startups wishing to remain private is limited access to capital markets.
But our voices can still be heard, and we must demand solutions to this seemingly intractable problem.
The coming food crisis, warns the author, is as intractable as global warming, and no less urgent.
But being born under the wrong road sign is a different and perhaps even more intractable problem.
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