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  • She has an irreverence that suggests confidence - even arrogance - and an uncynical modus operandi. Times, Sunday Times
  • I do not pretend to be proficient in the modus operandi of the hankey - pankey man, but I know that he has a method, all the same, -- one susceptible, too, of facile explanation. The Beetle
  • It also excluded eight crimes that had been incorrectly identified with an apparent modus operandi. Times, Sunday Times
  • His modus operandi involved merely the use of his bicycle. Times, Sunday Times
  • Emotional demonstrativeness has never been our particular modus operandi.
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  • Unfortunately, this Administration's modus operandi is to withhold from the public any information at all, even at a very general level, about what the government is doing in the war on terror -- and to keep the vast majority of Congress in the dark, as well. Balkinization
  • Fun is the band's modus operandi as they try to infuse the crowd with a swirl of positivity.
  • An example of her modus operandi was provided during a terse exchange with the defendant.
  • Rather than hitting back, her modus operandi is to send pictures of cute kittens to trolls in an effort to disarm them. Times, Sunday Times
  • Rather than hitting back, her modus operandi is to send pictures of cute kittens to trolls in an effort to disarm them. Times, Sunday Times
  • Almost 40 years after its initial release it has tremendous resonance because it demonstrates the modus operandi of contemporary colonial oppression and reveals what gives rise to and fuels a nationalist insurrectionary movement.
  • With a spurt in railway crimes the railway police have hit upon the idea to bring out posters and laminated sheets depicting the modus operandi employed by the offenders.
  • Rather than hitting back, her modus operandi is to send pictures of cute kittens to trolls in an effort to disarm them. Times, Sunday Times
  • An example of her modus operandi was provided during a terse exchange with the defendant.
  • Particularly notable is his description of the wonderful wourahli (urari) poison, its extraordinary effect, and the _modus operandi_ of its making; a poison used extensively by Amazonian tribes but not made by all. In the Amazon Jungle Adventures in Remote Parts of the Upper Amazon River, Including a Sojourn Among Cannibal Indians
  • An example of her modus operandi was provided during a terse exchange with the defendant.
  • This was in the days before satellites and instant communications, and I have often wondered what would have happened had our modus operandi been widely known at the time.
  • In fact, as we talked, we realised that the biggest difference in process derived from the character and modus operandi of the boss. Times, Sunday Times
  • Rather than hitting back, her modus operandi is to send pictures of cute kittens to trolls in an effort to disarm them. Times, Sunday Times
  • Indeed, this has become a kind of modus operandi. Times, Sunday Times
  • This is the classic Moscow modus operandi. Times, Sunday Times
  • Home visiting was from the outset the modus operandi of this practice. Taking Child Abuse Seriously: Contemporary issues in child protection theory and practice
  • Rather than hitting back, her modus operandi is to send pictures of cute kittens to trolls in an effort to disarm them. Times, Sunday Times
  • And Cirque Berzerk is just that with the modus operandi being “berserk” and “berserk” being the applicable word for the entire evening…but in a good way — areally, really good way. Buzzine » Cirque Berzerk!
  • The usual complaints about the presentation of Match of the Day by a cozy, dozy gang of highly remunerated ex-pros were reinforced on Saturday night after the programme had shown an interview in which Neil Warnock very pointedly accusing Robin van Persie of making persistent fouling part of his modus operandi. Sir Alex Ferguson wants three more years, but he might not get them | Richard Williams
  • They have examined his modus operandi, and are narrowing down suspects. Times, Sunday Times
  • The modus operandi, they said, was for divers with aqualungs to collect perlemoen which they then took ashore at dusk in sacks and left in a hideout in the bush and dunes.
  • Given Takeshita's modus operandi, bribes were necessary, and he argued that the Recruit deal was above board.
  • It was his usual modus operandi. Times, Sunday Times
  • His modus operandi is to plunder the kind of recent scientific research that often gets little media airtime because it's just too controversial. Times, Sunday Times
  • His favorite modus operandi over the years has been construc ... Jackson Williams: Dr. Rove Will See You Now, Gov. Palin
  • It's their normal modus operandi. The Sun
  • Here's what baffles me about this particular modus operandi. Times, Sunday Times
  • But when it comes to alcohol, the modus operandi is to warn of its dangers, preach of the virtues of abstention, ostracise those deemed "problem drinkers" – but never go the whole hog and relegate it to its proper place of illegality like the rest of its peers. Don't blame binge drinking on cheap booze
  • Rather than hitting back, her modus operandi is to send pictures of cute kittens to trolls in an effort to disarm them. Times, Sunday Times
  • True about UTC revenue, point is that a typical govt contractors modus operandi seems to be to maximize revenue from the customer (the govt) while appearing to cut costs (apparently to support execs lavishness & maybe shareholders). Today's Video: Encouraging Innovation at NASA - NASA Watch
  • Baluster roadrunner freight is instances subject to transshipment costs since it sine qua non be transferred from one modus operandi to another in the succession; these costs may call the shots and practices such as containerization aim at minimizing these. Article directories Celibataire Urbaine
  • All the thefts had the same modus operandi (as they say on the telly). The Sun
  • The modus operandi is to send off from each Armenian village day by day as many as the trains can carry. Times, Sunday Times
  • a modus operandi for hypnosis that pulled him downward by osmosis to the tesselate musical mosaic The Necromancer
  • While Commissioner Paul Tagliabue was an attorney by trade, he doffed his barrister modus operandi for that of partial, but reasoned, advocate. Michael Huyghue: NFL Labor Dispute: First Thing We Do Is Get Rid of All the Lawyers
  • So it certainly fits with the Government's modus operandi, which is to have a Minister to control and dictate everything, and, where he cannot do that, to ignore a commission.
  • Its typical modus operandi is not to bid but threaten effectively to liquidate the trust, a vote of corporate hara-kiri.
  • There is a case of murder involved here - and a foul murder, at that - by a person who had a modus operandi that has been known to the police now for years.
  • The Kolbe," as it is casually known, measures what she refers to as an instinctive modus operandi, or conative skills, the traits each of us is born with. Kansas City Star: Front Page
  • But your modus operandi is nowhere near the summit of the ambition you ought to have. Times, Sunday Times
  • Poe's general modus operandi was to meld together facts with fiction.
  • Indeed, their modus operandi often appears to be to maximise that damage. Times, Sunday Times
  • It was daring of Mr. Holroyd to take on a major writer, and for all his forcing of themes, the book thrives on sheer wit and, most important, on welcome asides, when he steps forward like a Shakespearean character to soliloquize about his modus operandi. The Biographers' Biographer
  • This modus operandi is one of the main causes of the problems that redundant executives face. Personnel Management: A New Approach
  • Traces of the modus operandi of the light infantry of old still live on amidst special forces such as the SAS.
  • There are also serious ramifications in the modus operandi of betting exchanges. Times, Sunday Times
  • Such a proposal is distinct from pantheistic notions which equate God with the natural world, because D'Espagnat relegates the natural world - the world of space, time and matter - to what Kant referred to as the 'phenomenal' world, the world produced by the modus operandi of our minds upon the noumenal world. Archive 2009-03-01
  • The modus operandi is always the same. Times, Sunday Times
  • Their modus operandi of presenting ultimatums while refusing to negotiate can only mean that this administration is not seriously interested in obtaining compliance.
  • Monolithic refusal to cooperate is their current modus operandi. Wonk Room » Reid To McConnell On Health Care: ‘This Issue Is Too Important To Be Manipulated For Political Purposes’
  • The modus operandi was simple: He would not remit the betterment charges collected from the residents to the bank.
  • There is too much danger that the subject may notice the sameness of the modus operandi.
  • His modus operandi is to plunder the kind of recent scientific research that often gets little media airtime because it's just too controversial. Times, Sunday Times
  • I believe they want to alter its culture and modus operandi.
  • I think their modus operandi was to look transparent. Times, Sunday Times
  • Closed-door discussions about which technologies in the clean tech landscape get how much from our government coffers is the modus operandi for the fits-and-starts approach we seem to have in building any sort of energy and economic platform that de-toxes us off our addiction to extracted energy. Alison Wise: The Clean Economist: Clean "Corruption"
  • He provokes much of it by a photographic memory that greatly abetted his modus operandi: intense preparation. Times, Sunday Times
  • Despite a string of victories-the judge's stinging decision enumerating Allen's "fraudulent modus operandi," occasional media coverage, and the support of real CIA agents and military heroes-he is no closer to collecting the $40,000 he says was "conned" from his family in 1993. Edgar Allen
  • Anyone who has ever spent any time in a political chatroom will recognize both the mentality and the writing style, which are the modus operandi of the booboisie.
  • The West Yorkshire Volume Crime Unit, one of only seven being piloted across the country, will use the same modus operandi as is currently in place for tackling murder and other ‘serious’ crimes.
  • From the start, he was explicit about his modus operandi: We were to give him our program, and he would give us a design.
  • There are also serious ramifications in the modus operandi of betting exchanges. Times, Sunday Times
  • This excerpt sums up the modus operandi of a rogue vice presidency in an at-times acephalous executive branch: William E. Jackson Jr.: The Vices of Cheney: The Burden is Upon the House Judiciary Committee
  • Living out of a suitcase is her modus operandi, as she is usually on tour. Elisa Goodkind and Lily Mandelbaum: Electro-Pop Artist Uffie Shares Her Effortless Style: 'You Should Live The Hell Out Of Every Moment' (PHOTOS, VIDEO)
  • The police gave a full description of the thief's modus operandi.

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