Sentences with phrase «knot of»

You'll find schools, nightlife, apartment buildings and single family homes — South Lamer pulls Austin into one neat knot of culture.

In an action involving many parties and a myriad of construction deficiencies, the challenge of reaching an early and efficient resolution may be met by establishing a structured process leading to mediation, ensuring that relevant documents are disclosed and information is shared, such that the Gordian Knot of who is responsible for what damage can be untangled.

You might feel tightness in your chest as your heart pounds, your breathing quickens, and a knot of nausea forms in your stomach like a volcano about to erupt.

I most enjoy assisting couples untie the knot of dysfunction; step back with intention to gain clarity and then explore other more productive options which might just reside «outside the box.»

Though it's difficult to untangle the knot of forces behind these changes, the rise of single - parent families is almost certainly one of them.

Despite the knot of challenges in this area, there is ample room for headway.

Culture is a cloak, shield, glue and balm for Indigenous people identifying as lesbian, bisexual or queer and held the solutions to a «tight knot of grief», the CEO of the National Centre of Indigenous Excellence, Kirstie Parker, told conference delegates, inviting allies with «good hearts» to listen and raise their voices in support.

College football is a Gordian Knot of conference agreements, broadcasting rights, scheduling, and generally huge amounts of money being made.

Rakha - bandhan, in literal terms, means a knot of protection.

The CRTC should look carefully at administrative agencies that carry out similar hybrid functions: it risks sleepwalking into a knot of legal and procedural issues that are entirely avoidable, and that may seriously compromise the ability of the CRTC to effectively enforce the provisions of CASL.

The second head is the tangle of legal requirements for those on the list: a knot of vague, illogical, ever - expanding, and sometimes contradictory laws that even lawyers, judges, and law enforcement have difficulty interpreting.

But he knew well the Gordian Knot of papers, phone calls, meetings, and actions this would initiate, the long road of process and protection, of which he was one feature.

It has been described as a Gordian knot of a problem but one that has been ambitiously scheduled in the PM's plans for the first 100 days.

He bore no badge of mourning but a knot of purple ribbon on his shoulder.

Three experts discuss the Gordian knot of wealth, fertility, and environmental impact — and why making do with less stuff matters so much.

A thick knot of interlocking forces give birth to a cyclone like Vardah that smashed into the Chennai coast and Nellore and Chittoor districts of Andhra Pradesh on December 12 last year, with wind speeds reaching 100 - 110 km per hour... Read More

Attendees at the conference filled me in on the final sessions, and some frustrations with my story, including my mention of the knot of 19 scientists who posed for a picture.

1979 The Hayward Annual 1979, Arts Council of Great Britain, Hayward Gallery, London and tour This Knot of Life, Paintings and Drawings by British Artists, L.A. Louver Gallery, Venice, California

Anish Kapoor remained fortressed inside a tight knot of rapt hangers - on, while Grenville Davey, back in the public eye after a protracted absence following his win in 1992, appeared, frankly, baffled.

He articulated a vision of the landscape that exists somewhere between memory and experience, twisted into a seaman's knot of American vernacular imagination.

Designed first in architectural software, each painting is a flat, glossy field of color, bisected by a single knot of compressed wireframe — presumably of something that looked more stable from the front.

A journalist's video camera stands beside a piece of work by artist Anish Kapoor entitled «In The Shadow Of The Tree And The Knot Of The Earth II» during a press preview of an exhibition of his recent work at the Lisson Gallery on October 9, 2012 in London, England.

A journalist's video camera stands beside a piece of work by artist Anish Kapoor entitled «In The Shadow Of The Tree And The Knot Of The Earth II» during a press preview of an exhibition of his recent work at the Lisson Gallery on... More

A sculpture by artist Anish Kapoor entitled «In the Shadow of the Tree and the Knot of the Earth IV» is exhibited during a press preview of an exhibition of his recent work at the Lisson Gallery on October 9, 2012 in London, England... More

The child continued: «What what if a bird say a whole flock of birds a whole knot of birds were to eat seed after seed then flying back into the blue causing the white causing the white causing a a a grave to fall down upon the entire earth, what what what then?»

opens up the narrow trajectory of art history into a dizzying knot of possible interconnections and influences, suggesting the shapes and lines formed by art history are works of art in themselves.

More importantly however, after the heart - rending balladry and heart - breaking top knot of Salvador Sobral in last year's Eurovision, Portugal plays host to the singing competition in May of 2018.

If you see a knot of cars pulled over, passengers craning their heads out the windows and pointing up, or possibly even using binoculars or setting up spotting scopes, there's probably a condor or two in the area.

He has a top knot of long, loose curls and a body covered with a dense, crisply curled liver colored coat, contrasted by a smooth face and a smooth «rat» tail.

The lump may be caused by inflammation, the knot of the suture material or if there was dehiscence of the abdominal wall sutures there may be a small hernia from the surgical site.

The financial sword you need to cut all the way through this Gordian knot of life cycle fund choices is forged from life cycle fund information, sharply organized.

Despite the high boredom potential, I'm planning a series of posts to pull apart the Gordian knot of stocks as an inflation hedge.

A little knot of guilt tightened in my stomach.

Another small knot of employees watches something on a screen.

The older of them swears loudly in Spanish and then catches his brother square on the knot of his shoulder with a dead arm that makes him wince in pain.

A woman in a filthy frilled cap was stationed on the verge, a knot of children in the hedge behind her.

A Sherlockian knot of political intrigue, an action - packed blast from a PI's past and more in this month's Whodunit column.

What inspired you to write Jade Dragon Mountain It began with the Astronomical Observatory in Beijing, built hundreds of years ago, now a lone tower in a knot of elevated highways.

This presents a Gordian Knot of a problem: How are you going to sell a book between $ 7.99 and $ 9.99 in a market flooded with $ 2.99 commodities?

We sat on the plush red seat cushions and kissed before Baryshnikov came on stage, the whole of his powerful frame a knot of kinetic energy that leapt as though the stage were a springboard.

The book's strength is that it doesn't give us the answers to our questions, and the author wisely hints that trying to unravel the knot of truth may prove a difficult task.

It hamstrings all the publishers in a knot of anti-competitiveness.

All of these young women seemed to know each other and stood chatting in a close knot of five or six.

The circuit at Portimao is a knot of blind crests, off - camber sweepers and second - gear hairpins, but the Cayman's front end bites like its crocodilian namesake and the car snaps through the turns with easily managed fury.

Our state currently funds public schools through a tangled knot of 11 different formulas that even the best Eagle Scout would struggle to make sense of.

It doesn't sound like an appealing job; more along the lines of untangling a giant knot of yarn that my cat's been playing with for ten years.

Schools have changed relatively little, mainly because of turf battles fought by the knot of organizations that we politely call «the education system»: teachers unions and school boards try to protect their monopolies, publishing companies try to reinterpret all new ideas back into the profitable forms of the past, various levels of government try to protect their relevance by getting in front of every new concern, pretending to lead while aggressively and often destructively following whatever trends they have the wit to perceive.

Can this knot of problems be untangled and solved?

A knot of ribbon placed on a gift package.

«With XQ, Emerson took on a big, tough challenge, laden with a Gordian knot of tradition, state graduation requirements, college entrance requirements (and the tests that go with them), and the traditions of prom, football, and everything else,» observed Mary Ryerse, strategic director at Getting Smart, a Minneapolis — St. Paul nonprofit, who was among the judges for the competition.