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Gordian meaning
Of or pertaining to Gordium (now Yassihüyük in Turkey), capital of Phrygia. | Of or pertaining to Gordius, king of Phrygia | Of the Gordian knot.
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Perhaps that’s the only way we can cut through the Gordian knot of a robotized late capitalism.
Anselm Kiefer: Superstrings, Runes, The Norns, Gordian Knot at White Cube, BermondseyUntil 26 January, free.
Trump may have cut the Gordian Knot in the Middle East.
Buoyed up by vibrant ministers including Profs Gordian Ezekwe and later Emmanuel Emovon in Science & Technology as well as Prof Olikoye Ransome-Kuti in Health, Science and Health Journalism was a good perch.
HIDOE partnered with Gordian Inc., the creators of JOC, to develop and implement a JOC program, and in January awarded three roofing contractors for O‘ahu and two roofing contractors for Hawai‘i Island.
The challenges faced by the ICC in Africa resemble the proverbial Gordian knot.
The issue “looks like a new version of the Gordian knot”, Tusk told reporters in Brussels.
You’ll step up on an open treadmill spot at a busy hour, and somehow the person before you, who looked unassuming and ready to move onto their next project will have constructed a Gordian knot out of that little red string.
According to Barnes: The people of the South and the West had for years been convinced of the enormity of the "crime of 1873", and they had long since come to regard silver as the sword that would cut the Gordian knot of privilege.
According to reviewer David Haddon: citation Mead has cut the Gordian knot of quantum complementarity.
Koester points out that the cities of Galatia in the north consist of Ankyra, Pessinus, and Gordium (of the Gordian Knot fame of Alexander the Great).
The adults are mostly free living in freshwater or marine environments, and males and females aggregate into tight balls (Gordian knots) during mating.