0 an arrangement allowing people or groups of people who have different opinions or beliefs to work or live together:
Was it inevitable that the latter would lead to war or could a modus vivendi have been found?
They reached an implicit modus vivendi: southern civil society would remain intact and southern representatives would support the key elements of the administration's program.
But in the world of real politics, there are many things worse than a modus vivendi (moral education perhaps being one).
Next to the relationship of forces, the respective importance that they attached to the context determined the interactional modus vivendi.
Her modus vivendi is that of the appearance of her existence once it has been emptied of the content of her reality.
Portage presents an artistic vision to protect against confusion and despair by establishing a modus vivendi between the eternal moral opposites.
This also established a cultural modus vivendi that made trading easier, not to mention safer.
The fundamental lack inherent in such a commodified approach is that of an ethical modus vivendi and modus operandi.
