modus

That seems to be the modus operandi as The League moves closer to the seven-year itch.

Each new creative wave that comes along seems to have to challenge the previous modus operandi.

Rubin echoed this message today, explicitly endorsing it as a modus operandi for the Egyptian military.

As always with CBS, if it's not broken, don't fix it seems to be their modus operandi.

In fact, my whole modus vivendi is dictated by the needs of writing.

Once satisfied that it was just and honourable, and it was comparatively child's work to arrange the modus operandi.

By means of an accepted code of rules a kind of modus vivendi in this respect is obtained.

He had a modus operandi of making the conditional mood mean the imperative.

They might, too, have told us to advantage something about the modus operandi of "walking a plank."

The Major chuckled, and admitted this might be so; his old governor used to say, "Est modus in rebus, sunt certi denique fines."