124 examples of modus in sentences

Thus, let them first place on their table all the INGREDIENTS necessary; then the modus operandi, or MODE of preparation, will be easily managed.

We will here briefly give a description of the modus operandi pursued in this sport.

It is worth while indeed to examine the system of Islâm from this special point of view, and to try to find the terms on which a durable modus vivendi might be established between Islâm and modern thought.

"We are unalterably convinced that England is our mortal enemy, and that all endeavours to find a modus vivendi will be in vain.

If, then, this is spirit's modus operandi for self-expression, we have only to transfer this conception from the scale of cosmic spirit working on the plane of the universal to that of individualized spirit working on the plane of the particular, to see that the formation of an ideal image by means of our thought is setting first cause in motion with regard to this specific object.

"I don't want you to change at all, Mr. Verty," she said; "only to take this modus addendi, which is the Greek for way,to take this way to find out.

But the Powers were not ready to permit the dissolution of their anxiously constructed edifice; and they met together with a view to arranging some secure modus vivendi.

But they have a vital bearing on the modus operandi of economic laws.

course of conduct, line of conduct, line of action, line of proceeding; role; process, ways, practice, procedure, modus operandi, MO, method of operating; method &c; path &c 627.

In the same way, it is sheer gross irrelevancy to speak of Britain as an island, unless indeed the word be understood as a mere modus loquendi arising out of a rather poor geographical pleasantry.

Besides, there are other reasons why I am contented that my father was a country parson, born much about the same time as Scott and Wordsworth; notwithstanding certain qualms I have felt at the fact that the property on which I am living was saved out of tithe before the period of commutation, and without the provisional transfiguration into a modus.

It is so well known in every village, how many have either died for love, or voluntary made away themselves, that I need not much labour to prove it: Nec modus aut requies nisi mors reperitur amoris: death is the common catastrophe to such persons.

" "Which thing hath neither judgment, or an end, How should advice or counsel it amend?" Quis enim modus adsit amori?

Besides, how childish to puff up the empty bladder of an old metaphysical foot-ball on the 'modus operandi interior' of Justification into a shew of practical substance; as if it were no less solid than a cannon ball!

But before the Barrister draws bills of imagination on his tender feelings, would it not have been as well to adduce some last dying speech and confession, in which the culprit attributed his crimesnot to Sabbath-breaking and loose company,but to sermon-hearing on the 'modus operandi' of the divine goodness in the work of redemption?

As the highest forms of thought Geulincx names subject (the empty concept of an existent, ens or quod est) and predicate (modus entis), and derives them from two fundamental activities of the mind, a combining function (simulsumtio, totatio) and an abstracting function (one which removes the nota subjecti).

Modus extensionis et idea illius modi una cademque est res, sed duobus modis expressa (II. prop.

The human mind, as a modus of thought, is active when it has adequate ideas; all its passion consists in confused ideas, among which belong the affections produced by external objects.

And here, as with Beauty, though the test of that be within us, is the modus operandi equally baffling to the scrutiny of the understanding.

As to the process or modus operandi, it were a vain endeavour to seek it out: that divine secret must ever to man be an humbling darkness.

158, n. 1; Powell and Bembridge, case of, iv. 223, n. 3; Present Discontents, iii. 205, n. 4; professor in the imaginary college, v. 108; puns, on the Isle of Man, iii. 80; Wilkes, iii. 322; v. 32, n. 3; modus and fines, iii.

The modus operandi is for all the men to be secreted but one, who stands on the line holding up a red flag which indicates danger; the engineer then stops and the men spring aboard; some hold revolvers to the heads of the engineers, and others go through the train and rob the passengers.

Spenser, however, was himself too much influenced by the popular impulse for his example to be decisive in favour of the regular tradition, while, by the time Milton wrote, a hybrid form had established itself on a more or less secure basis and a modus vivendi had already been achieved.

But it was certainly incumbent on the Government to find a modus vivendi with the least possible delay.

The President concluded his address, which was listened to throughout with the greatest attention, by remarking that, though the processes could be seen and their progress traced, the modus operandi was not traceable.

124 examples of  modus  in sentences