How To Use status quo In A Sentence
- As Marx said, faith in God too often becomes a way for people to abnegate our responsibility, deny our power and become passive in the face of a sacrosanct status quo. Philocrites: Back to the reverence debate!
- It is a rebuke to those who grumpily accept their snail-paced status quo. Times, Sunday Times
- If the reform stuck to a market-based insurance system - so went the reasoning - access could be within reach of more people without causing disruptions to those benefiting from the status quo. Anja Rudiger: With all eyes on the 'market,' health reform overlooked human rights
- There is no doubt that the voters wanted to shake up the status quo and they have done this by creating what is almost a hung parliament.
- This continued until war broke out and when war broke out, General Hertzog, again with his strong feeling of South Africanism, said, "While we do not wish to be disassociated from the British Empire, while we are willing to remain with the British Empire on the same footing as heretofore, we do not see why we should declare war now, why we should not maintain neutrality and the status quo, even though Great Britain go into war. Racial Relations in the Union of South Africa
- NCIS was perturbed at the end of last season, and the pendulum is slowly returning to status quo. Prone and supine : Bev Vincent
- Pending a settlement, the status quo of the boundary should be maintained.
- Yet restoring the status quo ante will be phenomenally hard. Times, Sunday Times
- This expansive alteration of the Federal System was to have been achieved by converting the rights of the citizens of each State as of the date of the adoption of the Fourteenth Amendment into privileges and immunities of United States citizenship and thereafter perpetuating this newly defined _status quo_ through judicial condemnation of any State law challenged as "abridging" any one of the latter privileges. The Constitution of the United States of America: Analysis and Interpretation Annotations of Cases Decided by the Supreme Court of the United States to June 30, 1952
- These old people have been brain washed by the conservative special interest that want to the status quo to continue. House to back off from controversial plane purchase
