I asked Kim France, the editor in chief of Lucky, the new shopping magazine, what Easter means to her vis-à-vis clothing.
"Benazir Bhutto desperately wants to be the prime minister, and Musharraf needs her vis-à-vis the United States," said Robert Oakley, a former United States ambassador to Pakistan.
You need to give Allie time and space to work out her relationship with her boyfriend vis-à-vis the rest of her life.
Something similar, if somewhat less definitive, could be said of her position vis-à-vis her potential Republican opponents.
She wouldn't have to wear her hi-vis jacket this time.
In retrospect, it seems illuminating that it was a question about her role vis-à-vis Madison that so unnerved Hillary Clinton, a seasoned campaigner, known for being cool under pressure and fast on her feet.
The longer France waited, the more delicate her position vis-à-vis Metternich became.
We also interpreted the emphasis with which she expressed her WTD in part as an appeal for moral support for her own position vis-à-vis her family (function 1).
In her memoirs, Rasputin's daughter Maria (who had her own shaky relationship vis à vis facts) quoted her father telling the tsarina in a telegram, after one particularly harrowing hemophilic incident, "Have no fear.
At her instigation Caelius, who had deserted her, was prosecuted for vis ("violent acts") in 56, but Cicero and Marcus Licinius Crassus spoke in Caelius' defense and he was acquitted.
But when, in this week's Newsweek, Eleanor Clift spoke so openly and eloquently about her admiration for Clinton alongside worries about her recent campaign tactics vis a vis Obama, it stirred up for me some worries of my own.
