Gordian-knot Sentence Examples

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  • The cutting of the Gordian knot by Austria's annexation of Bosnia and Herzegovina, and by the proclamation of the independence of Bulgaria, and of Prince Ferdinand's assumption of the old title of tsar (king), threatened to raise the Eastern Question once more in its acutest form.

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  • Slaves to detail must not win urban battle We have wound ourselves into a Gordian knot.

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  • The Gordian knot is cut, for philosophy and religion no longer touch each other but abide in separate realms.

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