Example sentences of "with [art] status [no cls] " in BNC.

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1 ‘ . Theory emerges as and when texts or issues are theorized , usually by academics who are dissatisfied with the status quo .
2 The mobilizing style has a greater appeal when there is dissatisfaction with the status quo and a feeling that new policies are required .
3 She is impatient with the status quo and the traditional style of decision-making by compromising with the major interests .
4 The case against Mrs Thatcher as a Conservative includes her impatience with the status quo and her suspicion , indeed rejection , of so many traditions and institutions .
5 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 ’ .
6 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 .
7 As far as that went , he was quite satisfied with the status quo .
8 ‘ 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 . ’
9 ‘ 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 . ’
10 With the status quo no longer an option , the question is how should health services be reformed , not whether .
11 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 ’ .
12 It followed , too , from the assumptions that the British made about the Masai 's conservatism , it appearing self-evident to them that because the Masai were so conspicuously uninterested in Western civilization they were in all respects content with the status quo ; so closely were Westernization and agitation linked in the administrative mind .
13 Does n't he seem to be content with the status quo ?
14 Or he might stick with the status quo , in which parliament has principal responsibility for the economy , and replace Mr Kuchma with a more pliant prime minister .
15 His version of human freedom and motivation could easily have included poverty as a ‘ rational ’ reason for crime ; and there was no necessary reason for him to equate his social contract with the status quo as far as property relations were concerned ( after all , he did not equate it with the status quo in many other respects ) .
16 His version of human freedom and motivation could easily have included poverty as a ‘ rational ’ reason for crime ; and there was no necessary reason for him to equate his social contract with the status quo as far as property relations were concerned ( after all , he did not equate it with the status quo in many other respects ) .
17 To govern rather than merely preside , to bring about meaningful policy change as distinct from tinkering with the status quo , a president must establish a productive relationship with congress .
18 In pursuing their administrative and legislative strategies , the Reaganites were not fiddling at the margin or tinkering with the status quo .
19 A successful Home Secretary needs enough versatility and openness of mind to listen to what is said before making a choice between tinkering with the status quo and the more radical alternatives which are open to him .
20 The concerns of the Department of Education and Science , Her Majesty 's Inspectorate and politicians alike indicate dissatisfaction with the status quo .
21 Haynes states that PPBS makes an ‘ inherent demand for self-criticism and the need for a creative dissatisfaction with the status quo ’ ( 1980 , p. 79 ) .
22 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 .
23 — refusing to put up with the status quo and what , humanly speaking , is feasible .
24 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 .
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