Word: operandi
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...this modus operandi tends to have a few adverse effects. The first is that we find ourselves constantly trying to win other people’s approval. We campaign for extracurricular positions, we dress nicely for recruiting interviews and we want peers and professors to agree with our arguments. The second is that our resources of such high-intensity time and energy are limited. Sometimes we’re so preoccupied with chasing our own personal cyclones that our friends or others who would be close to us are left behind. The third is that we end up being good...
...outfit the city has come to know well over the past decade. According to press and police reports, more than 100 thieves and drug pushers?some convicted, some charged, others not even formally arrested?have been killed in the city during that time, almost always with the same modus operandi: two men on a motorcycle with a .45 or a 9-mm firing at close range. Such killings were heavy in 1996 and 1997, then sporadic during Duterte's time in Congress. The pace picked up during and after his mayoral campaign last June, spiking last fall after Duterte ordered...
...object is to project power in order to destroy an enemy's military capability. Terrorism is more in the nature of violence-as-propaganda, using spectacular attacks to terrorize an enemy's support base as well as to embolden and inspire the terrorists' own supporters. Al-Qaeda's modus operandi over the past four years has been to conduct one or two spectacular attacks a year (which may require them to attempt a few more, on the assumption that some will be foiled). Theirs is a war of messages in which mass murder is the ultimate propaganda tool - the message...
After all, the EU’s “long-term goal is to bring all the democracies of Europe together.” This goal cannot dwarf the EU’s foremost concern: to maintain shared security. Given this modus operandi, it seems implausible to expect that the EU will take in Serbia and Montenegro...
...unless the world's leading economy plays a larger role in redressing the global balance of prosperity, there will be fertile breeding ground aplenty for terrorists. And being the lone superpower will not buy security. "Let them hate so long as they fear" is not a viable modus operandi in a world in which the acquisition of weapons of mass destruction is no great challenge. As the events of Sept. 11 showed, U.S. invincibility should not be confused with U.S. invulnerability...