NOUN
- a manner of living that reflects the person's values and attitudes
- a temporary accommodation of a disagreement between parties pending a permanent settlement
How To Use modus vivendi In A Sentence
- The Japanese government, Roosevelt, and some Japan officers in the State Department all proposed abandoning the search for a comprehensive agreement in favor of negotiating a temporary agreement, what the diplomats called a modus vivendi from the Latin, a way of living. Interpretations of American History
- He realized early on that the idea of achieving a modus vivendi with the National Socialist dictatorship was out of the question.
- More importantly, Rawls make a difference between a modus Vivendi and an overlapping consensus.
- We managed to achieve a kind of modus vivendi.
- Our two countries must put aside the memory of war and seek a modus vivendi.
- After year of confrontation, they finally have achieve a modus vivendi .
- After 1940, a modus vivendi between church and state was achieved.
- Meanwhile, he is working out a modus vivendi with the Supreme Leader, who, despite his conservative instincts, realizes that the clerics' obstructionism could eventually backfire.
- Now this agreement with His Majesty's Government is what you have seen in the papers, called the modus vivendi. The Newfoundland Fisheries Question
- The only possible solution I can see to this dilemma is a drawing together forthwith of the 3,500,000 Frenchspeaking Canadians and the 5,000,000 English-speaking Canadians to evolve a modus vivendi in those fields where we can act as a unit. How Can We Build A Nation?
