The dividing and reuniting of river channels a phenomenon known as braiding has created several islands along the river's middle course, of which the two largest are Elephant Island and MacCarthy Island.
He embarked on the Murrumbidgee River and was "hurried into a great and noble river [the Murray]." A week later he encountered another big river flowing into the Murray from the north, that he rightly concluded was the Darling, the middle course of which he had explored the year before.
But it was the wind across the exposed middle of the course which stirred up perilous conditions.
Ahead of Innerhofer in the top two sections of the track, Svindal made several errors in the middle of the course, which cost him the race.
The surgeons deliberations can be understood in an Aristotelian perspective as an expression of clinical phronesis; a search for the middle course of action, which lies somewhere between the excess involved in "doing everything possible" or "doing nothing at all" [ 44, 45].
But, of course, which facts?
If the group is split evenly, the baboons chart a middle course or "vote" on which baboon to follow.
The administration hopes this middle course will mollify Beijing, which has said the sale of the destroyers would be unacceptable, and at the same time meet some of the defense needs of Taiwan.
Schleiermacher notes at one point that he wants to chart a sort of middle course between ancient dialectics, which had the virtue of openness but the vice of courting skepticism, and the dogmatism of the scholastics, for whom everything of importance was pre-decided in an assumed religious principle.
Adams attempted to steer a middle course between these partisan camps, which left him vulnerable to political attacks from both sides.
