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Besides, he was an intractable ruffian; otherwise he would have been of use.
When he looked about him for another and a less intractable damsel to immortalize in melody, memory produced one with the most obliging readiness.
The spirit which served her was growing intractable: she could neither lay nor control it.
He was, too, very learned, and rational enough on all points which did not relate to his treasure; but on that, indeed, he was intractable."
Those people are very intractable; they understand but very little of the language which you speak, although it appears to me to be composed of three languages.
When little Fanny came into the schoolroom, I hoped she would be mild and inoffensive, at least; but a few days, if not a few hours, sufficed to destroy the illusion: I found her a mischievous, intractable little creature, given up to falsehood and deception, young as she was, and alarmingly fond of exercising her two favourite weapons of offence and defence: that of spitting in the faces of those who incurred her displeasure, and bellowing like a bull when her unreasonable desires were not gratified.
Ishmael regarded his intractable mate with a smile of indulgent pity.
V anstone, with many excellent qu alities, was a man of fierce and intractable temper.
He has a sullen, rebellious spirit; a violent temper; and an untoward, intractable disposition.
She felt that he was praising her, too, and blushed; certainly she had done all she could with his intractable friends, and had made a special point of kowtowing to the men.
Steyer's launch video focused on 'pushing power down to the people' and blaming corporations for most of the nation's 'intractable' problems.
The company will continue to work with wholesalers, hospitals, interventional pain doctors, and pain management centres across the country to ensure availability of the product for patients with intractable chronic pain.
Medtronic announced the first patient enrolled in the Embrace TDD (targeted drug delivery) clinical study that will evaluate the use of the SynchroMed II intrathecal drug delivery system as an alternative to oral opioids for patients with chronic intractable non-malignant primary back pain with or without leg pain.
After the meeting, Hasbani said "discussions touched on the issue of cancer and intractable diseases' drugs, and the challenges we face in the health sector in general, mainly the lasting problem of medicines for chronic diseases."
The typical clinical features of OMAAV, recently proposed by the Japan Otological Society, are the following: (1) intractable otitis media with effusion or granulation that does not respond to antibiotics or insertion of a tympanic ventilation tube; (2) gradual hearing loss (in most cases) due to effusion and granulation in the middle ear, followed by sudden, progressive hearing loss within 2 months; (3) the MPO- or PR3-ANCA positivity (in most cases); (4) facial palsy and hypertrophic pachymeningitis (occasionally) [3].