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Example sentences for "modus"

Lexicographically close words:
modulatory; module; modules; modulus; modum; modyr; moe; moenia; moenibus; moet
  1. 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.

  2. 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.

  3. It was his policy rather to achieve a modus vivendi in which the bulk of the Netherlands would concur, and to conciliate England.

  4. The news that a modus vivendi has been signed between the Sultan of Kowfat and the Shriek-ul-Islam has caused a sudden buoyancy in the City.

  5. News comes by messenger that the Shriek of Kowfat who has been living under the convention of 1898 has violated the modus operandi.

  6. But this very fact proves that it is not a dead quality, but a modus vitalis supernaturalis.

  7. So far there was complete agreement among the revolutionists, but with regard to the modus operandi emphatic differences of opinion appeared.

  8. The modus operandi has been already described; vide supra, pp.

  9. Probably it hoped that by that time the proprietors and their emancipated serfs would have invented some convenient modus vivendi, and that nothing but a little legislative regulation would be necessary.

  10. Desaguliers illustrates Van Eckenberg's methods in a very exhaustive set of notes and plates, which are too technical and voluminous to repeat here, but I will quote sufficiently from them to make the modus operandi clear.

  11. This was the secret modus operandi made use of by Richardson, the first notably successful fire artist to appear in Europe, and it was disclosed by his servant.

  12. The whole relation got to be regulated more by internal conditions than by external pressure, by a customary modus vivendi, and not by commercial and state-protected competition.

  13. At Mongpai every effort was made without success to induce Sawlapaw, the powerful chief of Eastern Karenni, to come in and arrange a modus vivendi with the British authorities.

  14. These establishments presented an opportunity to study the artificial propagation of brook-trout, and I soon became familiar with the modus operandi.

  15. The best plan for the angler who is visiting Key West for the first time is to go out with a market fisherman in his boat and learn by ocular evidence the modus operandi of channel fishing.

  16. Such rigidity of principle need not be extended to the affairs of everyday contact between the Vatican and the Italian authorities, with regard to which, indeed, a tacit modus vivendi was easily attainable.

  17. Under Venice the Church had not been recognized; and after having several times almost succeeded in obtaining their bishop, a modus vivendi was at last reached in 1797, with the consent of the Senate and perhaps of Rome.

  18. He said, very rightly, that the population of Macedonia was equally near to Serb and to Bulgar; but unhappily, in his efforts to establish a modus vivendi, he proposed that Macedonia should be divided between the two countries.

  19. Standing at these windows when the cat did not see me, I have many times witnessed her modus operandi.

  20. During this memorable campaign, a curious military modus operandi had been resorted to in the Luray Valley, in which the cavalry had made itself doubly useful.

  21. Now, we come to the mechanics of the thing; the modus operandi, or, as it is professionally known, the M.

  22. He went, at length, into his reasons for thinking so, and described the modus operandi of the thefts.

  23. There was something awfully impressive, in the modus operandi, and exquisite skill of this antagonist.

  24. Modus also uses it in this sense: Les chiens qui viennent chacant apres le parfait (fol.

  25. In Roy Modus the beasts are also divided into bestes doulces and bestes puans.

  26. It is very effective and one that is included in the programme of many European conjurors, though their modus operandi is more efficient and needs less preparation.

  27. Though Mr. B could see the modus operandi of the trick he would be quite unjustified in giving it away or in doing the trick himself without the permission of Mr. A.

  28. Now, let us very briefly discuss the modus operandi through which and by which conscious determination and other psychical manifestations arise from the physical basis--the senses.

  29. The arbitrary impositions of the officials are, however, tempered by the genius of evasion on the part of the Chinese merchant, and by mutual concession a modus vivendi is easily maintained between them.

  30. Why, then, was it that on the ground-level of common material interest, and under the sunshine of the protection spontaneously accorded by authority, the parties failed in two hundred years to evolve between them a modus vivendi?

  31. The ruling order might get what comfort it could out of the Modus Orandi and similar treatises, but if the suggestions therein contained could have been carried out, a something very like the Protestant churches would have resulted.

  32. There was thus, if not a fusion, a gradual mingling of the Mahomedan and Hindu populations which, in spite of many fierce conflicts, tended to promote a new modus vivendi between them.


  33. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "modus" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.

    Some related collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    modus operandi; modus vivendi