Intractability [noun]

The federal government has pledged $300 million to the intractable border sewage problem, which allows millions of gallons of untreated sewage to pour into the Pacific Ocean.

This effort follows others in Baltimore that have had some success tackling the intractable health problems of violence and overdose deaths.

There’s a long list of other intractable problems in the vision, too.

It’s an ingenious workaround for an otherwise intractable problem.

Few problems are longer-term or more intractable than America’s systemic racial inequality.

This investment fund, while looking at the investments through a distinctly Salesforce lens, is designed to fund startups to help solve intractable social problems, while using its extensive financial resources for the betterment of the world.

Importantly, the strategy of treating any intractable challenge as if it were a foreign enemy has worked less and less well.

A vexatious delay occurred from the intractability of the mules, which persistently refused to allow themselves to be caught.

There is a disparity between the inner intractability and the external regularity of these poems.

Forced by some act of the city to abandon one idea, the next that followed found a new intractability.