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    quo


    1. Those who governed sought to maintain a status quo


    2. The world has seen many marvels during recent years, and one of the many things that helps to illustrate the fusion of technical modernism with the established status quo is the way in which England’s ancient feudal institutions have embraced the social and political structures of modern times


    3. modernism with the established status quo is the way in which


    4. Hollow; when she danced with him despite the popular status quo; when they


    5. I see a prophetic generation rising that challenges the status quo


    6. While some dismissed it as a trifling detail, of no real concern to their desired status quo, it was a striking development to this agent


    7. Quid pro quo


    8. Though Hunters have become legendary in Nuria—and feared by wizards—the organization never developed enough clout to threaten the status quo


    9. Having grown too comfortable, perhaps, many oftentimes acquire a taste for easy living, maintaining the status quo and aversion for confrontations; choosing to appease or soften criticisms both foreign and domestic, rather than standing on its traditional principles


    10. That is to say, authority is often conferred as a quid pro quo in exchange for (public) favors

    11. Such impressions, (oftentimes) guided by (opportunistic) political and social ―leaders‖ harboring a vested interest in maintaining the status quo in order to consolidate their political power base by forging racial alliances designed to sever popular accord, are unlikely to change anytime soon in the absence of alternative, more creditable viewpoints


    12. Be that what it may, France‘s troubling economy can ill-afford a diminishing role in the Middle East which arguably explains its reluctance to upset the status quo, if I‘m permitted to put it so bluntly


    13. Ford's pardoning of Nixon for his crimes during the Watergate Scandal, defended by Ford as best for the country, were seen by many as a quid pro quo, a payoff, with the pardon being exchanged for being appointed Vice President and then becoming President


    14. Some scientific dissenters argued the status quo, but did not mention global dimming


    15. Whilst there are people coming forward to train for diaconate and readership, there is not enough to go round, assuming a status quo model


    16. Extensive mats of uprooted vegetation could have lodged in different places that, in turn, would have been covered over by the eroded rock ground to silt as an end result of this overwhelming disturbance of a geologic status quo


    17. The CAA only requires a NAAQS revision "at least" every five years, so EPA is not required to revise the status quo


    18. The status quo of joint use by both Thais and Cambodians has worked well until recent weeks


    19. The Romans, they feared, would use an uprising, any disturbance of their dictatorial status quo, as they had many times in the past, to upbraid their truculent subjects additionally, in their sullen acquiescence to the rule of this abhorrent “invader


    20. Now what could I make of that? She was dismissing the whole thing, that whole scene on the tennis courts as if it had never happened, as if the status were quo

    21. Any new understanding that tended to destabilize the status quo ante and the prerogatives of established authority were resisted ever more persistently


    22. have had to fit into the status quo


    23. Technology, Status Quo, Religion, and Perspectives are undergoing dramatic restructuring


    24. The guests were the colleagues and their many friends who had a status quo and label such as him


    25. For no end point exists, and you need to continue chasing after more and more power just to stay in the same place, just to maintain your status quo, just to preserve your rule over others


    26. The status quo will be


    27. There is, at best, the status quo better known as business as usual


    28. of a failing status quo


    29. Thirdly, it shows that the rebel has to be strong-willed in order to avoid being crushed by the status quo


    30. 5 In a utopia, there will be no impetus to innovate; on the contrary, vested interests will exert a strong and continuous force in favor of the status quo

    31. “The Nexus approaches, Amirgath, and there are three paths that we may follow! There is the way of the foolish, there is the status quo, and there is the way of justice! Consider which of these three would best prepare us for the Nexus!


    32. “One faction favors the status quo, and is represented here by Amirgath and Gvetwa


    33. The Initiate knows that many laws are sensible, many are simply there to protect the status quo or the vested interests of powerful people, and yet others are simply outdated, stupid or irrelevant


    34. interested in preserving the status quo than change, while he’ll use


    35. Using James Howard Kunstler’s term, the psychology of previous investment makes them feel obliged to defend that status quo


    36. to maintain the status quo


    37. The rich and educated Indians were afraid of losing their status or well paying job and did not want to make an effort out of shear self-interest, apathy, and fear to bring about any change in status quo


    38. just to maintain the status quo


    39. What a quid pro quo that is


    40. But with lack of interest, the tendency is towards the status quo

    41. Grandchildren of the appropriate age are having a status quo home and domestic year


    42. You are more or less satisfied with the status quo


    43. status quo than trying to go back to the


    44. Those in or working on their third marriage have a status quo kind of year


    45. In the meanwhile, we proceed gropingly in the organizational magma among committees and meetings and extra hours, hoping to have time enough (trusting in our big start) to pin the right move, to look for the rule that allows us to “take off”, to perpetuate the status quo


    46. Is he definitely a defender of the status quo? Or simply trying to be one of us? Technically he is not one of us


    47. Siblings and sibling figures also have a status quo kind of family year


    48. Parents or parent figures are having a status quo love year


    49. Single or unattached siblings or sibling figures will find serious love next year, but this year is a more or less status quo kind of year


    50. Where Capricorn or Taurus will err on the side of tradition and the status quo, an Aquarian will err on the side of the new

































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