Word: coexistent
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...explained why. In doing so,Acheson sought to quiet those Americans who wanted some kind of spectacular new approach to the Kremlin. Just as emphatically, he rejected Russian hints that it might be possible to divide the world peacefully into two spheres. The U.S., said Acheson, was willing to "coexist" with the Communists-to use the current Soviet phrase for it-but only on realistic and hardheaded terms...
...monotheism which the Hebrews, by whatever process, finally attained must not be looked upon as a good in itself. Monotheistic doctrines might well coexist with an evil state of society. It was because the prophets always attacked the theological problem from its ethical side that we owe such an immeasurable debt to the civilization which produced Amos and Isaiah...