The word "cohabit" is correct and usable in written English.
It is typically used to refer to two people living together as a couple without being married. For example, you could say: "My sister and her boyfriend have been cohabiting for several years now."
The voters have three times within two decades chosen to saddle a president from one side of the political divide with a National Assembly dominated by the other side witness the past five years, when President Chirac was condemned to "cohabit" with the Socialist-led government of Lionel Jospin.
But it is hard now to imagine Messrs Kiir and Machar once again agreeing to cohabit.
So the pair will have to cohabit.
In many countries couples can decide whether and where to marry, cohabit, divorce or remarry.
Family bonds are already growing more complex, as people cohabit, divorce or set up home with partners of the same sex.
Not so long ago Mr Chirac was being written off as a conviction-free opportunist, dogged by scandal and fatally weakened after the voters in 1997 condemned him to "cohabit" for five years with a coalition government led by his Socialist opponents.
In other words, with a presidential election looming in the spring of 2002, Mr Chirac may start to look like a loser against Lionel Jospin, the Socialist prime minister with whom the electorate has condemned him to "cohabit" since the general election of 1997.
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Tevekelli Yildirim, the local imam, confirms that the Koran allows men to take as many as four wives, provided "that they love, respect and provide for them equally".In fact, both Sumers are breaking the law in a country where tradition and modernity seem as often to cohabit as to clash.
(More than half of Brazilian women in their late 20s cohabit with a partner to whom they are not married. As for contraception, Mexico's birth rate is on course to sink below that of the United States).
By contrast, his presumed opponent in the election, Lionel Jospin, the Socialist prime minister with whom the voters have forced Mr Chirac to "cohabit" for the past four years, is according to the reported words of Mr Chirac number two.
