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He defended a “resistance economy” vis-à-vis the West and the U.S.

Je vis M. le Baron d'Holbach environn d'une vieille femme et de deux villageois, l'un vieux comme elle et l'autre jeune.

The controversy of the vis viva was what was the proper definition of the measure of force.

In the debate of the vis viva, it was assumed that in the mutual action of bodies the whole effect of the force is unchanged.

But in this instance, that which the author calls in another passage of his work, the vis Lucilii, fell upon the hard rock.

My fair vis-a-vis looked me now full in the face and smiled, so that a dimple in her right cheek was plainly visible.