Word: operendi
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Rather than accepting the argument that her headwear posed a threat to secularism, Kavakci said she views secularism as a tool for oppression, used by a government for which "violation of human rights is its modus operendi...
Indeed, Helprin's purpose seems to be a very refined escapism, and he works as a conjurer, producing wonderful effects through his meticulous modus operendi. At the conclusion of "Tamar," a careful story in which a man recalls his infatuation with a young girl at a London dinner party in the '30s. Helprin eloquently adopts the manifesto of the fantasizer...
...Mather, what happens to this country depends on two factors: "catastrophe for the world through war or accepting the fact that we will have to live with communist countries. I think we will have to find a modus operendi between the United States and the Soviet Union. We should not try to change the internal government of these communist countries--it isn't our business to do this. There is damn little we can do about relations but it is not too early to start adapting our feelings to accepting Russia...
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