It is, perhaps, the knife that will cut the
Gordian Knot of the pending Cyprus problem," the President said, noting that this was something that all interlocutors understood at the UN, Europe and the United States and everywhere else it has been raised.
The only answer to this problem is to cut the
Gordian knot (no pun intended), leave the European Union and repeal all the restrictive, useless legislation emanating from it.
Rather, they would prefer to hide behind an elaborate
Gordian knot of marketing mumbo jumbo built up over the years in an effort to make 'marketing' seem bigger and more scientific than it usually is -that is, at the level of business that most of us work in.
The dispute over costs between the independent care-home owners and the local authorities which pick up the bill is one of
Gordian knot proportions.
Mr James himself believes that the situation has become so complex that a public inquiry is now the only way to unravel the
Gordian knot.
He also called on the Government to tackle the '
Gordian knot of tax complexity' affecting savings and to increase consumer knowledge of finance.
I ended up by saying to the little lass that dealing with them was like trying to unravel the
Gordian Knot. `What knot?' she asked.
The legends around Alexander - the taming of his horse, Bucephalus; his unorthodox unravelling of the
Gordian Knot and so on - are set in the context of a wide-ranging survey and judicious discussion of what available sources tell of the life and character of the charismatic Alexander.
One organisation in particular, the Creative Commons (http://creativecommons.org), is trying to cut through the
Gordian knot of legalese surrounding IP licensing.
The Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors believes it can untie the
Gordian knot baffling Britain's two biggest mortgage lenders - how to arrive consistently at corresponding house price statistics.
* It could have been called The
Gordian Knot, but the manufacturers decided to name it after its Hungarian inventor.
Now, he has abrogated the article of the Indian constitution that conferred a special status on Kashmir to the applause of a vast section of people, including several opposition parties and prominent individuals who have likened it to the cutting of the
Gordian knot, which others were too timid to do.
Beyond the high-end discussions, the conference should help countries to cut the
Gordian knot of human settlement woes.
Among their topics are Ivan the Terrible and Muscovite political culture: cutting the
Gordian knot, unresolved evidentiary issues concerning Rus' heretics of the late 15th to early 16th centuries, words and things: contemporary translation of the Russian institutional vocabulary of the 16th-17th centuries, calculating the casualties of forced labor: Azov as a harbinger of Petrine policies, and princes and Cossacks: putting Ukraine on the map of Europe.
But all that was merely just another twist in the
Gordian knot of the negotiations as a whole.