It was his policy rather to achieve a modus vivendiin which the bulk of the Netherlands would concur, and to conciliate England.
The prevailing conditions at any given time were always looked upon as a modus vivendi liable to readjustment when any of the three parties felt impelled to claim a larger freedom of action or a larger power of control.
Publicly and ostensibly as before he remained the chief of the "moderate" party, seeking reconciliation with Spain and a modus vivendi between Catholics and Anglicans; privately he took Essex's vacated place as the friend of the Scots King.
Sleep would come to her, she knew, if she could find a modus vivendi with a loose flood of golden hair, and could just get hold of a feather-quill that was impatient of imprisonment and wanted to see the world.
Adrian felt that chat of this sort was the best after all, to keep safe for him his modus vivendi with this girl, in a world she was suddenly lighting up for him in defiance of his darkness.
Every modus vivendi, at arm's length, between any and every single lady and gentleman, was to be fooled to the top of its bent, in their service.
The search to discover a modus vivendi between a past and present at war may have thrown her a little out of her usual demeanour.
Conflict and Race Consciousness[216] The Civil War weakened but did not fully destroy the modus vivendi which slavery had established between the slave and his master.
They are present in every situation where the fundamental interests of races and peoples are not yet regulated by some law, custom, or any other modus vivendi which commands the assent and the mutual support of both parties.
This sentiment of loyalty has its basis in a modus vivendi, a working relation and mutual understanding of the members of the group.
This accommodation, this modus vivendi, may be relatively permanent as in a society constituted by castes, or quite transitory as in societies made up of open classes.
Whereas an agreement for a modus vivendi between the Government of the United States and the Government of Her Britannic Majesty in relation to the fur-seal fisheries in Bering Sea was concluded on the 15th day of June, A.
Hence John's happy mind, and, a result of the happy mind, a sanguine and eager wish to effect some good, to bring about some sort of reconciliation and a modus vivendi in the Courtland family.
His hopes were not visionary or unreasonable: he did not expect to establish romantic bliss there; a modus vivendi commended itself to him as the best way of expressing what he was going to suggest to Lady Harriet.
For a true evolutionism would propose to discover by what modus vivendi, gradually obtained, the intellect has adopted its plan of structure, and matter its mode of subdivision.
There results between them a modus vivendi, which is organization.
In 1890 they were arranging a modus vivendi with the French government about the lobster fisheries.
Ministers protested against any claims of French, and desired time to be changed till January for reasons given; but that was ignored, and modus vivendi entered into without regard to their wishes.
No pretence that no embarrassment exists between two people, however determined, can do more than encourage a hope that a modus vivendi may be found.
He was in his study, and Bob had probably nearly arrived at the phonograph local plague-centre in Putney, when he got to speculation, acknowledged as such, about a modus vivendi for himself and the mother of those two little wenches.
It is conceivable that under modified circumstances he might have evolved a modus vivendi for Church and State more favourable to the Church than that which emerged from the thirty tempestuous years which followed his death.
But the limitation was afterwards explained away, and the modus vivendi stated to mean the status quo.
We've established a sort of family modus vivendi, my father and I, and I don't want him to think that I'm breaking it by plotting with you.
The modus vivendi, like all other arrangements of its kind, was therefore safe and convenient.
As for his personal relations with Jennie, they changed little from themodus vivendi agreed upon.
During all the weeks of the modus vivendi she had been gentle, submissive, grateful, accepting his terms in the provisional spirit in which she understood them, and carrying them out.
This Note was effective, in that it induced the American Government to dispatch on February 22nd an identical Note to Great Britain and Germany, with the object of arriving at a modus vivendi in the matter.
As regards the question of armed merchant vessels, I hope to arrive at a modus vivendi.
Now, immediate rupture with United States would be certain; after election Wilson's mediation probable on the one hand; on the other hand at least slight possibility of finding modus vivendi by negotiation with United States.
At present we all seem to have a very good modus vivendi, and as I have no pressing engagements, I can conceive of nothing more charming than passing the winter here in your society.
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