Sentence examples for a gordian from inspiring English sources

"Yes, a Gordian knot.

The Syrian crisis has become a Gordian knot that cannot be easily disentangled.

It is a Gordian knot the Chinese state has only begun to unpick.

Can't split them up if you tie them into a Gordian knot.

The race problem is a Gordian knot, one the US just can't cut.

Fifa and the Qatar World Cup organising committee are now tangled in a Gordian knot.

Here this opposition is manifest in a large sheet of glass suspended between I-beams and flanked by two columns of the gallery; it serves as an immense frame for a small Gordian knot of a painting, "Design for the Qor Corporation," by the polymath artist and kabbalist Harry Smith.

Richard Fisher, president of the Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas, likened the central bank's stimulus efforts to "a monetary Gordian Knot" -- a complex tangle of programs that must be "gingerly" unwound to avoid havoc in financial markets.

This time, they seem to be trying to cut a musical Gordian Knot by commissioning a young composer, Anna Meredith, to write a new work for the Last Night.

I was about to keep flipping when I saw something soothing on "Scandal" that I had not seen in Washington in eons: acidic adversaries working together on a seeming Gordian knot and quickly settling on a compromise.

The elimination of poster sessions would be a radical Gordian knot solution and it would eliminate a lot of useless work and frustration.