Status quo Sentence Examples

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  • There is no desire to change the current status quo.

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  • Student movements have always risen up against the religious and political status quo.

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  • For them the movement is giving voice to a social discontent with the social status quo.

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  • The attitude engendered by the status quo is revealed in the opinions of the existing landowning interests referred to above.

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  • But time and again they unite to defend the status quo and to seek to limit progressive reform.

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  • The name is derived from the formal Protestatio handed in by the evangelical states of the empire, including some of the more important princes and 14 imperial cities, against the recess of the diet of Spires (1529), which decreed that the religious status quo was to be preserved, that no innovations were to be introduced in those states which had not hitherto made them, and that the mass was everywhere to be tolerated.

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  • More and more, those wishing to change the status quo adopt this as their primary tactic.

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  • Through all of this, we can end war by making it a worse choice than the status quo for everyone. 3.

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  • The creation of the so-called " Little Entente," aiming at the preser vation of the status quo in central Europe, was the primary outcome of Czechoslovak foreign policy.

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  • With these precedents and current instances of tendency to place the territorial relations of the powers on a permanent footing of respect for the existing status quo, it seems possible to go beyond the mere enunciation of principles, and to take a step towards their practical realization, by agreeing to respect the territorial status quo throughout still larger tracts of the world, neutralize them, and thus place them outside the area of possible wars.

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  • To maintain the status quo here was very important.

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  • The attitude engendered by the status quo is revealed in the opinions of existing landowning interests referred to above.

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  • The island remained a Spanish province until the War of the Spanish Succession, when in 1708 Cagliari capitulated to an English fleet, and the island became Austrian; the status quo was confirmed by the peace of Utrecht in 1713.

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  • With characteristic foresight, Visconti Venosta promoted an exchange of views between Italy and France in regard to the Tripolitan hinterland, which the Anglo-French convention of 1899 had placed within the French sphere of influencea modification of the status quo ante considered highly detrimental to Italian aspirations in Tripoli.

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  • All this, however, did not argue an intention on the part of the government to revert to the autocratic status quo.

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  • It was at this conjuncture that Warren Hastings displayed his political genius and rendered signal service to his country, by succouring from Bengal the defeated Bombay army and negotiating a peace (in 1782) that restored the status quo.

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  • But Napoleon's actions, especially the annexation of Genoa, at last brought the three powers to accord, with the general aim of re-establishing the status quo ante in Germany, Holland, Switzerland and Italy, or, in short, of restoring the balance of power which Napoleon had completely upset.

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  • The Spaniards invaded the duchy from Lombardy, and although the duke was defeated several times he fought bravely, gained some successes, and the terms of the peace of 1618 left him more or less in the status quo ante.

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  • It accepted the status quo as a working basis, but no amount of pressure could wring from it a disavowal of Trumbic and his colleagues.

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  • It is Dohrn's merit to have pointed out 1 that this assumption is not warranted, and that degeneration or progressive simplification of structure may have, and in many lines certainly has, taken place, as well as progressive elaboration and in other cases continuous maintenance of the status quo.

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  • The Natal invaders fell back to the mountains which enclose the north of the colony; Oliver and Schoeman retired from Cape Colony before the small forces of Gatacre and Clements; and the presidents of the republics, realizing that the British Empire was capable of more resistance than they had calculated upon, put forward feelers aiming at the restoration of the status quo before the war.

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  • To these ought perhaps to be added the transformation of the Franco-Russian entente cordiale into a formal alliance, since the alliance in question might be regarded as favourable to the preservation of the status quo in Europe.

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  • The Germans had for long past given up all efforts at Germanization; their watchword was " maintenance of the national status quo " - that is to say, not an aggressive but a defensive principle.

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  • But on the whole the false prophets deserve that name, not for their conscious impostures, but because they were content to handle religious formulas, which they had learned by rote, as if they were intuitive principles, the fruit of direct spiritual experience, to enforce a conventional morality, shutting their eyes to glaring national sins, after the manner of professional orthodoxy, and, in brief, to treat the religious status quo as if it could be accepted without question as fully embodying the unchanging principles of all religion.

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  • Other cases of regulation by treaty are certain contractual engagements which have been entered into by states for the preservation of the status quo of other states and territories.

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  • It is a treaty for the maintenance of the status quo in certain parts of Asia in which the parties to it have dominant interests.

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  • Differing from these general acts in not being contractual is the Monroe doctrine, which is a policy of ensuring the maintenance of the territorial status quo as regards non-American powers throughout the American continent.

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  • Another such guarantee of a vaguer character is that which the North Sea powers recently entered into for the maintenance of the status quo of their respective North Sea territories; and the similar one entered into by the Mediterranean powers for the same objects in the Mediterranean.

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  • Lastly in the same order of ideas Austria-Hungary and Russia are said to have concluded an arrangement between them for the maintenance of the status quo in the Balkans.

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  • The legislature of Virginia appointed him a commissioner to confer with President Buchanan and arrange, if possible, for the maintenance of the status quo in the matter of Fort Sumter, in Charleston harbour; but his efforts were unavailing.

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  • After the suppression of a military revolt the war with Persia was continued with varying success, and terminated in 1736 by a treaty of peace restoring the status quo ante bellum.

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  • On the 4th of August 1791, was signed at Sistova the definitive peace with Turkey, which practically established the status quo.

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  • The British government intervened and after considerable pressure upon Turkey obtained a telegram (dated the 8th of April 1892) from the grand vizier in which it was declared that the status quo was maintained in the Sinai peninsula, but that the sultan resumed possession of the posts in the Hejaz heretofore garrisoned by Egypt.

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  • He disapproved of Major Anderson's removal of his troops from Fort Moultrie to Fort Sumter in December 1860; but there is probably no basis for the charge made by Southern writers that the removal itself was in violation of a pledge given by the president to preserve the status quo in Charleston harbour until the arrival of the South Carolina commissioners in Washington.

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  • Government will continue to direct all their efforts to the observance of the status quo in the Gulf, and the maintenance of British trade; in doing so they have no desire to exclude the legitimate trade of any other Power."

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  • It was then closed by the treaty of Salbai, which practically restored the status quo.

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  • The status quo ante was restored, the diet met in extraordinary session, and proceeded to the entire recasting of the Finnish government.

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  • In an imperial manifesto dated the 7th of November 1905 the demands of Finland were granted, and the status quo ante 1899 was restored.

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  • He succeeded in maintaining the status quo practically unimpaired, additional security being found in intermarriage between the two dynasties.

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  • Ignoring the declaration of the Great Powers that" under no circumstances would they agree to any change in the status quo in S.E.

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  • Should, however, the status quo be disturbed, the powers were to concert to safeguard their special interests.

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  • But the Venetians were victorious, and by the peace of Turin Carrara found himself in the status quo ante, but he bought Treviso from Austria, to whom Venice had given it in the day of her trouble.

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  • In 449 the war was ended by a five years' truce, but after Athens had lost her mainland empire by the battle of Coronea and the revolt of Megara a thirty years' peace was concluded, probably in the winter 446-445 B.C. By this Athens was obliged to surrender Troezen, Achaea and the two Megarian ports, Nisaea and Pegae, but otherwise the status quo was maintained.

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  • None of the inhabitants of Monaco have access to the tables; and their interest in the maintenance of the status quo is secured by their complete exemption from taxation and the large prices paid for their lands.

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  • Frederick's reply was to annul the treaty of Constance and place the cities under the imperial ban; but he was forced by lack of military strength to accept the mediation of Pope Honorius and the maintenance of the status quo.

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  • In 1650 Frederick William attacked his rival, but a variety of circumstances, among others a change of government in the Netherlands, and the resistance of the estates of Cleves, thwarted his plans, and he was compelled to listen to the mediating powers, and to acquiesce in the status quo.

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  • He was a conscientious historian with a standard biased in favor of maintenance of the status quo.

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  • The new status quo has received considerable support from low inflation which has helped to moderate wage claims.

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  • We do not see any prospect of a return to the status quo ante.

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  • Thus popular cultures protest or resist in a contradictory manner, for they are already implicated in the status quo.

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  • Quite how British officials became so indoctrinated with this ethos of the status quo is a mystery to me.

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  • But in spite of its apparently unassailable position, opposition has emerged from a variety of states intent on challenging the status quo.

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  • Yet the drain on the country's strength was severe, and when news arrived in 453 that the whole of the Egyptian armament, together with a reserve fleet, had been destroyed by the Persians, a reaction set in, and Cimon, who was recalled on Pericles' motion (but see Cimon), was empowered to make peace with Sparta on the basis of the status quo.

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  • Italy, who had made the integrity of the Ottoman empire a cardinal point of her Eastern policy, felt this change of the Mediterranean status quo the more severely inasmuch as, in order not to strain her relations with France, she had turned a deaf ear to Austrian, Russian and German advice to prepare to occupy Tunisia in agreement with Great Britain.

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  • This assurance, dictated by Jules Ferry to Barthlmy Saint Hilaire in the presence of the Italian ambassador, and by him telegraphed en ci air to Rome, was considered a binding pledge that France would not materially alter the status quo in Tunisia.

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  • But cautious counsels prevailed, and by the victory of the Russian arms the status quo was restored (see Poland).

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  • The capitulation of Vilagos, which ended the Hungarian insurrection, gave Schwarzenberg a free hand for completing the work of restoring the status quo ante and the influence of Austria in Germany.

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  • The struggle against the bishops, in which a clamour for a reform of clerical life and a striving for local self-government were strangely interwoven, had raged for a couple of generations when King Henry V., great patron of municipal freedom as he was, legalized by a series of charters the status quo (Cremona, 1114, Mantua, 1116).

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  • Science can transcend the dominant status quo to reshape society for the public good, which is also the private good.

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  • Mike 's bedroom door has been kept closed for sanity sake and Mike did n't see a reason to change the status quo.

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  • Either way, the status quo is not an option.

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  • This means that there are small numbers of men actually challenging the feminist status quo.

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  • A ' Holy Alliance ' of Christian States on the Continent was formed to preserve the new status quo.

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  • Even if this was realistic, are we just to accept the status quo and lobby for a change in its balance toward Muslims?

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  • But err on the side of caution here as the nutty runners may upset the status quo and go mad.

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  • Peel 's period as Irish Secretary saw him supporting the constitutional status quo.

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  • After all the current political system is simply a way of keep the current economic status quo and the inequalities of capitalism.

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  • It 's undeniable that change in the workplace is often a traumatic process, even when the status quo is problematic or even unsustainable.

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  • They do not want unquestioning acceptance of the status quo.

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  • That is, the assumption based on the available information is that your situation will stay status quo.

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  • Quirky hair patterns, difficult curls and lifeless locks can hamper your status quo before the first bell rings.

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  • He is not one for great change or vision, but, instead, seeks to maintain the status quo.

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  • Sagittarius is not threatened by Gemini's constant need to question the status quo.

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  • However, you may find that you are at an ideal weight, and your day to day healthy routine may be all you need to do to maintain the status quo.

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  • While stress tends to be viewed negatively, stress in the physiological sense is merely a change in the status quo.

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  • Before music videos became status quo for successful bands, musical groups could still sell albums without adhering to a certain image.

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  • Stick to the Status Quo - This song was performed by the entire HSM cast, including Drew Seeley and was written by David Lawrence and Faye Greenberg.

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  • By the peace signed on the 24th of December 1502, however, the status quo was practically restored, the sultan contenting himself with receiving Santa Maura in exchange for Cephalonia.

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  • To this suggestion, which would have excluded the Treaty of Kuchuk Kainarji, the emperor Nicholas replied by a haughty demand that nothing should be altered in the status quo.

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  • He demanded the recognition of the status quo in the holy places, and of the tsar's right, under the Treaty of Kuchuk Kainarji, to the protectorate of all Orthodox Christians in the Ottoman dominions.

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  • Her never-ending quest to ' upset the status quo ' is akin to a snake eating its tail.

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  • Peel's period as Irish Secretary saw him supporting the constitutional status quo.

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