Example sentences of "[adj] [prep] [art] [unc] quo " in BNC.
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| 1 | Does n't he seem to be content with the status quo ? |
| 2 | He has a strong responsibility not to be content with the status quo , but to exert himself to try to find an answer , community to community , to settle the dispute . |
| 3 | Of the 90-odd writers and politicians billed to speak , most hailed from the soft and hard left , and were hostile to the status quo , or abolitionist . |
| 4 | ‘ . Theory emerges as and when texts or issues are theorized , usually by academics who are dissatisfied with the status quo . |
| 5 | While in Clermont he emerged as the focus for those who were dissatisfied with the status quo — just as Childebert I had earlier appeared as an ally for Arcadius . |
| 6 | ‘ The achievement of the uprising , ’ says the journalist Nahum Barnea , ‘ is that the vast majority of Israelis who were happy with the status quo are now much more unhappy with it . ’ |
| 7 | ‘ The achievement of the uprising , ’ says the journalist Nahum Barnea , ‘ is that the vast majority of Israelis who were happy with the status quo are now much more unhappy with it . ’ |
| 8 | She is impatient with the status quo and the traditional style of decision-making by compromising with the major interests . |
| 9 | Mrs Thatcher also appears to have intervened more directly than previous Prime Ministers in the promotion of Permanent Secretaries , preferring less senior and ‘ obvious ’ candidates on the grounds that they were impatient with the status quo and not ‘ defeatist ’ . |
| 10 | The 1964 British Election Survey found that just over half ( 51 per cent ) were satisfied with the status quo , and supporters of further nationalization outnumbered denationalizers by 28 to 21 per cent . |
| 11 | As far as that went , he was quite satisfied with the status quo . |
| 12 | Furthermore , China has been compelled to accept western technology by that universal and all-powerful human trait , which can be summed up thus : — ‘ Human beings are satisfied with the status quo only so long as nothing more attractive is experienced ’ . |