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
- Now this agreement with His Majesty's Government is what you have seen in the papers, called the modus vivendi. The Newfoundland Fisheries Question
- More importantly, Rawls make a difference between a modus Vivendi and an overlapping consensus.
- After 1940, a modus vivendi between church and state was achieved.
- For years, the Vatican has worked to restore what Pope Benedict XVI has called a modus vivendi between modern reason and faith. Islam
- All seek a modus vivendi as a means of diluting extremist attitudes on both sides and isolating the rejectionists in their own communities.
- After 1940, a modus vivendi between church and state was achieved.
- This is true not only in cases of evident marital failure but also in marriages characterized by a modus vivendi which is bearable or at least borne. Conflict and The Web of Group-Affiliations
- Yet the Chinese are not necessarily prisoners of their past and they have overwhelming economic reasons to seek a political modus vivendi with America.
- 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?
- 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