Word: operandi
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...they haven't shown themselves to be quite capable of an act of this type, such as when they seized scores of hostages at a Russian hospital in June 1995. So even the fact that it's not quite in line with their recent modus operandi, we couldn't rule out the possibility that this is the work of the Chechen resistance groups. It's very difficult to determine a modus operandi, but if there is one it's that these events occur when there's a standoff in Chechnya. But it may well end up that these are freelancers...
...suspect involved in that robbery fits the description of the suspect in the Oxford St. robbery and has a similar modus operandi...
...modus operandi of the attacks have varied--daylight, early evening, nighttime--as have the descriptions of the suspects--white, black, single, pack, old, young. Some crimes have been committed on foot, others on bicycle and even others in vehicles...
...running for political office, Nader is also answering the most important complaint about his previous modus operandi--an overreliance on lawyers and lawsuits. Important social-policy decisions should be made by the voters and their representatives, not by unelected judges. So now Ralph is saying, with Buchananesque bravura: You want the voters to decide? O.K., bring...
...takes a lot for people to change their modus operandi," Mayer says...