| All seek a modus vivendi as a means of diluting extremist attitudes on both sides and isolating the rejectionists in their own communities. |
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| Your modus vivendi depends on being able to control how people talk about you, much like a politician or pop star. |
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| Serious problems arise, however, when instrumental reason dominates the institution's modus operandi and modus vivendi. |
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| If you've already been living apart for four years, you may have established a modus vivendi with your spouse. |
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| Why could not a modus vivendi have been struck between Britain and Germany? |
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| Despite divergences in perspectives, it did not follow that an amicable modus vivendi could not be accomplished. |
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| He realized early on that the idea of achieving a modus vivendi with the National Socialist dictatorship was out of the question. |
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| To some extent, this reflected a standoff or even a temporary modus vivendi between the antagonists. |
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| The modus vivendi that was reached did not allay the popes' fears of the territorial expansion of the kingdom that might take over Rome itself. |
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| But the Prime Minister and the Chancellor have worked out a modus vivendi which allows for the business of government to carry on. |
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| The two sides have to find some kind of reconciliation, some kind of modus vivendi over time. |
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| Whoever becomes mayor will first have to achieve a modus vivendi with the council. |
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| Every administration seems to reach its own modus vivendi, squaring expectations with realities between the policy and intelligence communities. |
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| Far from a road to Damascus moment, the agreement was rather a modus vivendi by cunning, ruthless political operators. |
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| There is the problem of finding a modus vivendi on the constitution. |
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| A modus vivendi with Russia had to be found, even more so as the European NATO Allies remained nervous throughout. |
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| For the agreeable modus vivendi on which civilized social relations rest cannot be enforced by written law. |
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| They seemed to be intelligent, broad-minded people, who had achieved a modus vivendi with contemporary culture. |
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| Afghanistan's well-established channels of corruption, meanwhile, have been useful in this modus vivendi. |
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| As long as we make sure we are dealing with issues of political substance and not something else I am sure we can find a modus vivendi. |
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| Provocation leads to violence, which is met by violence, which leads to revenge and a slippery slope away from a just and peaceful modus vivendi. |
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| This brings me on to my second request: could you please confirm that a modus vivendi for the participation of Parliament will be found. |
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| Depoliticizing problems will help find solutions, or at least some modus vivendi that addresses the practical needs of regular citizens. |
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| I welcome the fact that the Committee on Regional Policy, Transport and Tourism has finally managed to find a modus vivendi. |
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| African culture has had to negotiate a contemporary modus vivendi between writing in French, its own traditional oral forms and the facts of post-colonial cultural life. |
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| Right now, the prospects for any kind of modus vivendi are grim. |
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| To cut it smaller would go against the entire Home Depot modus vivendi. |
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| Add to that a healthy dose of optimism, and her modus vivendi starts to jibe with current findings about lifestyle choices and sustained vitality. |
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| A sort of modus vivendi exists where Hezbollah keeps a low profile for its fund-raising and other activities and Europeans do not crack down. |
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| Over the years the European Parliament Committee on Petitions and the European Ombudsman have established a successful modus vivendi, referring matters to each other where appropriate. |
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| Knowing that the scope of each organisation is restricted to certain areas, I therefore believe that there may be a modus vivendi between them both. |
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| In addition, as an observation of political current affairs over the last few years has shown, the modus vivendi existing between Congress and the Ecuadorian people is highly conflicting. |
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| It specifically said that, whilst under the present modus vivendi this resolution could not have any binding impact upon its actions, it would be taken fully into account. |
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| Still, there was a modus vivendi available for the short term. |
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| We have reached quite a comfortable modus vivendi. |
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| Commissioner, our approaches may sometimes have been different, but I believe that we have the same objective, which is to develop a beneficial modus vivendi, a way to coexist with this important eastern neighbour. |
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| A modus vivendi has been established on the basis of assurances from the committee that this power would be used sparingly in exceptional circumstances. |
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| The best modus vivendi for a secret Judaist in Elizabethan London was a pragmatic compromise between inward conviction and outward conformity. |
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| The Mountbattens slipped back into their old modus vivendi, 'but it was particularly easy now, for my father trusted them both. |
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| It has just started featuring Cyprus and Modus Vivendi is one of its best finds of the year. |
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