crack a problem informal

He liked a short and finite time to crack a problem.

“I think the high points for me generally come around working on games, cracking a problem,” he says.

And we must do our best to crack a problem that has been ruining the arcology construction projects there.

Materials science: Cracking a problem

Here's a government that is cracking a problem that has eluded government for years of making sure people don't have to sell their home to pay for care.

James Cropper spent four years developing new technology that separates the high quality paper pulp from the plastic, cracking a problem that has vexed Starbucks, for instance.

When you finally crack a problem and develop a solution it makes it all worthwhile but in the meantime you have to keep yourself going and not become despondent.

The best brains in universities and companies are being harnessed in a team effort to crack a problem which, if it is solved, could indeed see a big industrial renaissance in Scotland.

But attempts to construct micro-organisms that make biofuels efficiently certainly are—though it will be impressive if a group of amateurs can succeed in cracking a problem that is confounding many established companies.

He was once a senior manager for the Thinking Machines Corporation, selling supercomputers that used thousands of processors working simultaneously to crack a problem rather than churning through the successive steps of a traditional linear program.

As a writer and an ideas man, he long ago worked out the appeal of a good tentacular mystery in the age of instant information, as well as the collaborative thrill that comes with cracking a problem online.

LONDON — British scientists say that a "Rapunzel Number" may have helped them to crack a problem that has perplexed humanity since Leonardo da Vinci pondered it 500 years ago.

Crisis: If Liverpool City Council's plan to get people living in the boarded up house in areas long since abandoned, they may have helped to crack a problem which has foxed local authorities up and down the country

And if it takes off, then Liverpool City Council may have helped to crack a problem which has foxed local authorities up and down the country: how do you revive a depressed and derelict area without a) a bulldozer and b) money?

Readers may therefore exercise their own judgments by listening to the audio files below, and decide whether, in their opinion, Dr Schwarze has cracked a problem that has defeated instrument-makers for 300 years: matching, or even beating, the Master of Cremona.