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• n  the trait of being hard to influence or control

• Syngman Rhee's intractability towards his allies, and his ruthless quelling of domestic rivals, led many to dismiss his great claim to distinction: without his half-century fight .
• The seeming intractability of this problem is, I believe, the reason that Rosner says that peace is "not in the cards".
• Syngman Rhee's intractability towards his allies, and his ruthless quelling of domestic rivals, led many to dismiss his great claim to distinction: without his half-century fight .

• intractableness

• tractability

News & Articles

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• ‘The Attack’ explores the Israeli/Palestinian divide
  In The Attack , a remarkable, beautifully made film now playing at Landmark Shattuck Theaters , the intractability of the Israeli/Palestinian divide is explored on a heartbreakingly personal level. Amin Jaafari (excellent Ali Suliman of Paradise Now) is a successful Arab surgeon living comfortably in Tel Aviv with his Palestinian-born, social worker wife, Siham (Israeli actor, Reymond Amsalem ...
  Aug. 13, 2013 - Berkeleyside

Quotes

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• Barack Obama in RadioFreeEurope/RadioLiberty
  We can acknowledge that oppression will always be with us, and still strive for justice,Obama said. "We can admit the intractability of depravation, and still strive for dignity. Clear-eyed, we can understand that there will be war, and...
• Rahul Bose in Sify
  Bollywood actor Rahul Bose said: "It would be inconceivable for the mainstream cinema chain to do something like this only because attitudes takes time to change. People like...... you hurl your body against the rock of intractability and stereotype...
• Frank Rich in FrontPage magazine.com
  In an Oct. 27, 2001, column titled "How to Lose a War," New York Times columnist Frank Rich wrote that the Taliban "are proving Viet Cong-like in their intractability."