The true king would reveal himself by solving an intractable problem — the Gordian knot. This knot was a nightmarish tangle of wrist-thick cornel bark that was twisted around an ox cart’s yoke and ...

But we should be mindful in doing so that the entire region is an historical Gordian Knot of poorly understood but ancient intertwined and competing threads -- one that may risk being cut by a ...

But we should be mindful in doing so that the entire region is an historical Gordian knot of poorly understood but ancient intertwined and competing threads — one that may risk being cut by a ...

He advises them to cut their Northern Gordian knot by severing Schleswig from Denmark proper, as well as Holstein and Lauenburg, and by establishing four diets in the kingdom instead of one.

Alexander the Great, short in patience, simply took his sword and sliced it in two! A Gordian Knot, slowly formed from the beginning of our democracy, was woven by an ever-present dark group ...

The Gordian knot wasn’t solved by patience or incremental fixes. It was solved by seeing the problem differently and taking decisive action. Financial leaders now face the same choice ...

Merchan’s eventual solution to this Gordian knot of his own creation was to announce prior to sentencing that he would not sentence Trump to anything at all. Invoking an “unconditional ...