Example sentences of "[prep] [art] [adj] status [no cls] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Neutralisation still had conservative connotations ; it would encourage the stabilisation of the political status quo in the country or region concerned and impose restraints on the unilateral pursuit of Soviet interests at a time when national liberation movements were achieving success with Soviet assistance . |
| 2 | In each case , the ‘ temporary ’ augmentation of the Soviet garrison became a permanent feature of the new status quo : after 1956 the Soviet Union doubled the strength of its Hungarian garrison from two divisions to four ; the Central Group of Forces owes its entire existence to the events of the Prague Spring . |
| 3 | A more accurate appraisal of the new status quo is that that would be the case … except for the small print . |
| 4 | In a new study on the future of trade unions , P. F. Beaumont examines a number of structural forces , all of which are working against a re-establishment of the growing status quo ante ( see The Decline of Trade Union Organisations , Croom Helm , Beckenham , 1987 ) . |
| 5 | The first Mediterranean Agreement ( February 1887 ) promised to Italy the support of Germany in a war with France over Mediterranean questions , while Great Britain exchanged with Italy mutual guarantees of the Mediterranean status quo and support . |
| 6 | This would range from total recovery to the maintenance of a vegetative status quo . |
| 7 | Had Peter implied , or worse even , said , that Anna had rushed impetuously to take a job in a supermarket because anything was better than the prospect of an unchanged status quo ? |
| 8 | The new president was fundamentally at odds with the international status quo that he encountered in January 1959 . |
| 9 | Salmond called on Sept. 27 for a referendum to be held setting out the choices for Scotland as full independence within the European Communities , limited self-government or continuing with the constitutional status quo . |
| 10 | Always the police prefer to exhibit bodily constraint in their styles , for restraint and decorum have a symbolic history as an indication of subcultural insider purity , a comfort with a vanishing status quo , and a rejection of the changing outside world . |
| 11 | Klein s work rests upon a moral and normative order which can either , as in the work of other object-relations theorists , become associated with a particular status quo in terms of family structure and roles , or else , if rechannelled , be used for a radical critique of these same institutions ( e.g. Frosh 1987 ) . |
| 12 | Her parents and sisters were sympathetic but expected her to conform to the existing status quo . |
| 13 | From the early 1880s he was conscious of the need for reform both for its own sake and to check the potential threat from labour to the political status quo . |
| 14 | An individual 's attitude to the question of the political context in which the legal system operates will depend on whether he or she takes a supportive attitude to the political status quo or wishes to challenge it . |
| 15 | That institutions work in this way , contributing to the general status quo , becomes taken for granted by Radcliffe-Brown . |
| 16 | What he envisaged was an access of " philosophical " seriousness : the positive alternative to a discredited status quo was " Schopenhauerian " . |
| 17 | The referendum had been organized to offer a choice between six different options , plus the existing status quo , ranging from full independence to incorporation as a state of the USA . |
| 18 | Indeed , the national is often a concept used deliberately to conceal conflict over the issues , to force one kind of unity around an existing status quo ( and if the arguments do not achieve unity , troops can be used to enforce it on the recalcitrants ) . |