Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Tunis to close down all the Catholic churches in the country, forced the Holy See to accept an agreement of the type known as a modus vivendi, a term that literally means "a way of living". This particular agreement was unofficially described as instead a "modus non moriendi" ("a way of not dying"). By it, all but 5 of the country's more than 70 churches were handed over to the state, including what had been the cathedral of the archdiocese, while the state, for its part, promised that the buildings would be put only to use of public interest consonant with
Latin syntax a direct object: Deponent verbs are frequently used in their perfect participle form (e.g. "profectus" 'having set out'): As well as the indicative mood illustrated above, which is used for stating and asking facts, and an imperative mood, used for direct commands, Latin has a subjunctive mood, used to express nuances of meaning such as 'would', 'could', 'should', 'may' etc. (The word "mood" in a grammatical sense comes from the Latin "modus", and has no connection with the other meaning of 'mood', in the sense of 'emotional state', which comes from a Germanic root.) There are four tenses of the