cut the Gordian knot

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We cannot, however, go so far as to agree with those who would cut the gordian knot by asserting dogmatically that the ascetic communities in Syria and Egypt were founded by these Buddhist propagandists.

From Apollonius of Tyana, the Philosopher-Reformer of the First Century A.D. by Mead, George Robert Stowe

We shall have cut the gordian knot of slavery, and the death agonies of the hydra would soon be visible.

From The Continental Monthly, Vol 3 No 3, March 1863 Devoted To Literature And National Policy by Various

He was continued at his post the next year and hailed with joy the proposition to cut the gordian knot that bound the Colonies to mother Britain.

From Sages and Heroes of the American Revolution by Judson, L. Carroll

In 1824 Elizabeth Heyrick, a Quaker woman, cut the gordian knot of difficulty in the anti-slavery struggle in England, by an able essay in favor of immediate, unconditional emancipation.

From History of Woman Suffrage, Volume I by Stanton, Elizabeth Cady

It was Captain Martin who cut the gordian knot and ended the already too-long debate.

From The Sword of Honor, volumes 1 & 2 or The Foundation of the French Republic, A Tale of The French Revolution by Sue, Eug?ne