In fact, many '50s movies were about all these things and more, the most intractable aspects of human life.

The area is cursed by some of the city's most intractable problems, poverty and violence.

The site of the most intractable conflict in the modern era.

The most intractable fight could well come over education, because each party wants to run in 2000 as a champion of schools.

Culturally, the Balkans may be the world's most intractable area.

The two men talked alone for an hour and a half about their most intractable disagreements.

Public education is one of the most intractable problems the city faces.

The analysis of and is one of the most intractable problems.

What did you say about the most intractable problem of all, namely transport?

The most intractable may have been over the extent of the publicity.