This brings regular calls to take an intractable issue 'out of politics'.

Social mobility was beginning to look like an intractable issue, and that would lead to greater social tensions.

Agricultural subsidies are the most intractable issue facing negotiators working toward a new round of global trade liberalization.

But, even if schools were perfect, there would be some intractable issues needing attention at national level.

But even though this scheme leaves all the most intractable issues to the second resolution, the draft of the first resolution fails to deal with the immediate obstacles.

This presented palaeontologists and neontologists with a seemingly intractable problem.

Is global success masking an intractable problem at home?

Yet what to do with the remaining inmates looms as an intractable problem, as many of their home governments refuse to allow them to return.

Only by embedding high aspiration in families will we cut through the intractable problem of social mobility.

Many politicians have plunged into a conflict area imagining they can deliver a miracle solution to an intractable problem.

This presented palaeontologists and neontologists with a seemingly intractable problem.

As the talks have proceeded, other seemingly intractable obstacles have emerged.

The case has now become tangled with a larger, seemingly intractable debate over when life begins.

But increasingly, the pace of expansion in human knowledge also provides unexpected technological palliatives to seemingly intractable dilemmas.

The property market may be rosier than it was a couple of years ago but the plight of first-time buyers remains seemingly intractable.