Now this agreement with His Majesty's Government is what you have seen in the papers, called the modus vivendi. From Wordnik.com. [The Newfoundland Fisheries Question] Reference
Ginzberg writes that she herself is personally convinced that the inferential pattern called modus ponens (If p, then q; p; therefore q) is valid. From Wordnik.com. [Feminism and Philosophy: An Exchange] Reference
The basic sentences (2: 1) - (2: 4) combined with a simple categorical sentence as the second premise boil down to what we today know as modus ponens and modus tollens. From Wordnik.com. [The Statue of a Writer] Reference
There was also the fear that Hamas was reaching a kind of modus vivendi with Israel. From Wordnik.com. [Palestinian Election Could Deepen Divisions] Reference
In the government, there are really officials who are skilled when it comes to this kind of modus operandi. From Wordnik.com. [Jesuits lead corruption crusade] Reference
This kind of modus operandi from an influential person creates friction abroad because it says - I do not care. From Wordnik.com. [Logan Nakyanzi Pollard: Those McCain Houses... Why They Don't Matter] Reference
"That's one of my problems with their modus operandi.". From Wordnik.com. [WikiLeaks 'Bastards'] Reference
This was exactly the modus operandi of the Mumbai butchers. From Wordnik.com. [Al Qaeda On the Run] Reference
That describes Budiansky's own modus operandi in a nutshell. From Wordnik.com. [Kerry Trueman: The Myth of the Rabid Locavore] Reference
Charming and friendly if invariably bleak is his modus operandi. From Wordnik.com. [Michael Giltz: Toronto Film Festival Days 7 and 8: Boston, Beliefs and Bang Bang Club] Reference
"Shining Path is radically changing its modus operandi," says Capt. From Wordnik.com. [TURNING THE CLOCK BACK TO CHAOS?] Reference
He says trial and error is the modus operandi of his management team. From Wordnik.com. [More Than A Middleman] Reference
If anything sums Pixar's modus operandi, it's loving the boring stuff. From Wordnik.com. [Pixar's Small Wonder] Reference
Yet it could not escape its real modus operandi: we don't like abortion. From Wordnik.com. [Is Roe Good Law?] Reference
This was the modus operandi of all military - organized ideological and political groups. From Wordnik.com. [Terrorists and Freedom Fighters] Reference
It struck a modus vivendi of mutual paralysis in the Balkan with Russia as early as 1897. From Wordnik.com. [Terrorists and Freedom Fighters] Reference
This is the department's modus operandi these days under Kelly and Mayor Michael Bloomberg. From Wordnik.com. [Len Levitt: Hiding the Truth at John Jay?] Reference
(Soundbite of laughter) GAGLIANO: This is not typically your modus operandi, as I understand it. From Wordnik.com. [The Whigs Play Out of 'Control'] Reference
The modus operandi, though perplexing to the uninitiated, is absurdly simple when the secret is revealed. From Wordnik.com. [Healthful Sports for Boys] Reference
But in the glare of recent public diplomacy, we are getting a fuller view of the man and his modus operandi. From Wordnik.com. [America's New Friend?] Reference
There she quickly learns the secret of the Italian culture - their modus operandi is the art of doing nothing. From Wordnik.com. [Alanna Zabel: The Art of Doing Nothing] Reference
"He prefers that modus operandi," Anne later asserted, "because that way he can say 'I never slept with her.'". From Wordnik.com. [Nigel Hamilton: The Apple Doesn't Fall Far From the Tree] Reference
It was Athena's modus operandi to invite a new protégéinto her estate every six months. From Wordnik.com. [The Bludgeoning of a Burgeoning Young Artist] Reference
Passive aggression is the modus operandi of the '90s, a crucial weapon in the contemporary games-playing arsenal. From Wordnik.com. [Sugarcoated Hostility] Reference
Now, in Joe's seventy-fifth year, that had become his modus operandi -- as close as he came to an article of faith. From Wordnik.com. [The Loneliest Hero] Reference
One conversation between Clinton and Flowers on the recordings could be revealing of Clinton's basic modus operandi. From Wordnik.com. [The Secret War] Reference
Knowing that convenience is their modus operandi, the worst case scenario unfortunately appears to be the more likely. From Wordnik.com. [Jeremy White: Taliban Missiles Likely Supplied by Pakistan, Not USA] Reference
While we do get some information, the answers only open the door for more questions, which is the show's modus operandi. From Wordnik.com. ['Lost' Questions and Semi-Answers] Reference
Merkel, whose modus operandi is to avoid open conflict, has pledged her adherence to the status quo until after the election. From Wordnik.com. [The Radioactive Energy Plan] Reference
Lying and cheating have become the modus operandi of the young -- the idea is to get where you want to go no matter the means. From Wordnik.com. [Dan Agin: America in Decline: From Making It to Faking It] Reference
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