Example sentences of "for [art] status [no cls] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ We believe we have some results to show for our efforts and if anybody in South Africa , white or black , believes that opposition to sanctions represents support for the status quo , they are deluding themselves . ’ |
| 2 | The support for the status quo in these two areas had been ‘ soft ’ , with the public acquiescing because there appeared to be no politically workable alternative . |
| 3 | Beneath these divisions on policy lay deeper divisions based on economic and financial self-interest , with the prestige of Nyerere as party chairman adding weight to the argument for the status quo . |
| 4 | But apathy often works for the status quo . |
| 5 | It 's not the job of education to ensure that young people settle for the status quo . |
| 6 | As we shall see later in this chapter , the case for the status quo is perhaps too general and too romantic in its assessment of the value of the existing structures . |
| 7 | With each year that passed , peasant interest in and support for the status quo would increase . |
| 8 | Bowles and Gintis criticise the human capital theory as providing ‘ a good ideology for the status quo ’ and for the fact that ‘ the contribution of schooling to growth over the last half century may on balance have been negative . ’ |
| 9 | Some courtiers were intelligent , some had the desire to educate themselves , but in the whole these people had little interest in politics , beyond a vapid enthusiasm for the status quo which treated them so well , and an unthinking conservatism , which led them to dismiss anyone with views to the left of their own as " Communists " . |
| 10 | But the Service was in its infancy when the matter was under consideration , and there is something to be said for the status quo in those circumstances . |
| 11 | Few , if any , of the media commentators nowadays for the status quo . |
| 12 | I understand him to say that if there is a democratic vote for the status quo , it will be honoured , as will a democratic vote for independence . |
| 13 | Some 96 per cent of voters opted for the status quo . |
| 14 | The overall result of proceeding with such respect for the status quo in the countryside was the decline of agricultural production , the progressive deterioration of the social conditions of small farmers and farm labourers , and the gradual depopulation of the rural areas . |