The idea that the fertiliser industry is one great hydra-headed trust with which there is no competition is quite fanciful.
I hope he will not think that we have now solved this hydra-headed problem, for it will go on until 1965 and thereafter.
Television can be a hydra-headed monster and unless we cut off some of its heads from time to time, we shall be in danger.
I do not know whether the new clauses have created a hybrid or a hydra, but it seems that a third way is being sought.
I look upon it as a thing like the hydra; you can knock off several heads but more spring up in their place.
The problem of spurious qualifications is rather like dealing with a many-headed hydra.
If one reads the citizens charter, one realises that it will spawn more charters than the hydra could grow heads.
We do not have this at the moment: we have a hydra-headed structure for community regeneration, lifelong learning and family support.
