(Williams, it seems, is being tolerated by his teammates. There`s no sense he`s going to disrupt anything. But T.O.? Goodness knows what he`ll do next. So I asked Riggins how he thought this T.O. matter could best be handled.) I think T.O. likes somebody to hold his hand, ... It might have taken nothing more than for (Eagles Coach) Andy Reid and (team president) Joe Banner to go hold his hand. The Eagles could have called everybody in, sat T.O. down and told him, `T.O., we will never forget what you did for us last year, especially putting your career on the line like that to play in the Super Bowl coming back from such a severe injury.` And for that matter, they could have worked out a little deal the rest of us would never have known about. But the Eagles were immutable on the matter . . . totally intractable.
- John RigginsThe Arab-Israeli conflict is also in many ways a conflict about status: it`s a war between two peoples who feel deeply humiliated by the other, who want the other to respect them. Battles over status can be even more intractable than those over land or water or oil.
- Alain de BottonBut in this case, the results on the footy field produced a set of circumstances that caused an intractable fixture clash. Just like players, coaches and fans we have to accept the sporting outcome.
- Ken EdwardsThe results on the footy field produced a set of circumstances that caused an intractable fixture clash,
- Ken EdwardsThe moment I saw the model and heard about the complementing base pairs I realized that it was the key to understanding all the problems in biology we had found intractable - it was the birth of molecular biology.
- Andres MartinezGlobalization could be the answer to many of the world`s seemingly intractable problems. But this requires strong democratic foundations based on a political will to ensure equity and justice".
- Sharan Burrow