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1. Then it was to get a case to the Supreme Court where something magical would slice through the Gordian knot tied by American voters.
2. Of course, if we can mix our classical references, Russia has its Sword of Damocles to cut this Gordian Knot.
3. Berlusconi, it is true, did not cut this Gordian knot, but neither did he tie it in the first place.
4. Entwined within this Gordian knot is a truth so terrible as to be rarely spoken.
5. Under Gordian and Philip a respite was again granted to the persecuted church.
6. He did not know whether he could break off his engagement at all, so great was his horror of ruptures, of cutting Gordian-knots.
7. To follow the interlacing line of an ornament, gives the mind the pleasure of untying the Gordian knot, without cutting it.
8. The compulsory exercise of governmental authority cut the Gordian knot with the result that substantial justice now obtains.
9. It might not please him exactly but—he went round and round from one problem to another, trying to untie this Gordian knot.