Example sentences of "of [art] status " in BNC.
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| 1 | In a detailed study of the Stormont archives , Bew , Gibbon , and Patterson ( 1979 ) have shown that there were indeed different currents within the Stormont administration but the ones which predominated belonged to those among the ruling protestant classes who were bent on preservation of the status quo for their own purposes , including their own dominance of the protestant alliance as well as their particular sectional interests . |
| 2 | To some extent these academic outsiders are ‘ the enemy ’ of police society , whose training and class aspirations makes them supporters of the status quo and resentful of liberal ideas or academic intrusion ( Reiner 1978a ) . |
| 3 | The Vatican has never officially recognised Indonesia 's annexation of the territory , but it is privately conceded that the Papal visit constitutes de facto recognition of the status quo . |
| 4 | His critique of the alternative is more convincing than his defence of the status quo . |
| 5 | The controlling agents of the status quo may know the power of lies ; dissident sub-cultures , however , are closer to knowing their value ’ ( cited in Bronski , Culture-Clash , 41 ) . |
| 6 | Thatcherism has been both a matter of style — combining impatience with much of the status quo and a relentless promotion of new attitudes — and policies . |
| 7 | Throughout Europe vested interests in the medical profession , supported by opposition parties hungry for votes and journalists eager for copy , have mounted vigorous protests in favour of the status quo . |
| 8 | It was next to impossible for even the most reactionary supporter of the status quo to claim that Government should not even examine the pensions system . |
| 9 | The supporters of the status quo within the Labour Party seem to think that a united Ireland will somehow develop by some inconceivable means out of the current sectarian stalemate . |
| 10 | All this conduces powerfully to the maintenance of the status quo . |
| 11 | At first sight this option seems the political equivalent of the status quo with low-level waste . |
| 12 | The Commission says that the government 's practice of propping up the company by waiving interest payments due on CNP 's debts of ECU 1410m ( £987m ) — owed mainly to the state — serves to promote artificial preservation of the status quo , and to ‘ postpone necessary adjustments ’ . |
| 13 | But the language your correspondent then goes on to use in her letter belies her true position — that of a supporter of the status quo and of the present head teacher . |
| 14 | Another tragic effect of this emphasis on ‘ Anglican ethos ’ and the maintaining of the status quo by parish boundaries is the disincentive to leaders to stay and build a work whose multiplication is limitless . |
| 15 | So often defence of our hospitals is portrayed as a ‘ reactionary ’ defence of the status quo . |
| 16 | This protection of the status quo is a matter for considerable public concern . |
| 17 | The real issues are never discussed , nor do they have to be , for established patterns of family behaviour eventually ensure the maintenance of the status quo , albeit an uncomfortable and unhappy one . |
| 18 | I told myself that my intention was maintenance of the status quo , but this was at best a half-truth . |
| 19 | He told 20,000 supporters : ‘ This is a contest between the courage to change and the comfort of the status quo . |
| 20 | A major exhibition of nineteenth-century Provençal painters , ‘ Le Paysage Provençal et l'Ecole de Marseille avant l'Impressionisme ’ showing at the Musée de Toulon until 30 May , aims to show that Impressionism was a logical development of the status quo ante , rather than a startling innovation . |
| 21 | But most worrying of all , the subordinate group may be unaware of its ‘ real ’ interests and subscribe to the inevitability of the status quo : a fact which Lukes ( 1974 ) recognised when calling for a ‘ three-dimensional ’ or radical approach to the study of power . |
| 22 | Researchers were encouraged to explore the assumptions and mechanisms underlying the acceptance of the status quo which may favour the interests of dominant groups ( in this case , the bourgeoisie ) . |
| 23 | peace was patched up on the basis of the status quo but military victory made it impossible to destroy the new Bulgarian union . |
| 24 | Further agreements in December 1887 and May 1888 extended the guarantee of the status quo to the integrity of the Ottoman Empire and Turkish rights over Bulgaria , while Spain agreed not to support France against the Triple Alliance . |
| 25 | One further argument is used by defenders of the status quo . |
| 26 | The Boards ' lines of defence against this — replacement costs were hypothetical and difficult to estimate , tax complications might follow — read like a weary defence of the status quo , but the Ministry did in the end accept that their creation of special ad hoc depreciation reserves did go some way to meeting the point . |
| 27 | The legislative response reasserted the fundamentals of the status quo : the relatively dominant position of men , the need for monogamous sexual relationships and the primacy of the family . |
| 28 | Group leaders can easily be bought off in some way , and once co-opted can usually deliver a quiescent membership in support of the status quo . |
| 29 | Their philosophical idealism was at once a retreat from the material world of unruly mobs and declining privilege and a programme for maintaining their position while accommodating some change : ‘ Socratic political thought was an intellectually sophisticated and ingenious justification for counter-revolution in democracy and the maintenance of the status quo in oligarchy ’ ( ibid. p. 4 ) . |
| 30 | Management in particular is not about the preservation of the status quo , it is about maintaining the highest rate of change that the organization and the people within it can stand . |