Example sentences of "[prep] the [unc] quo " 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 . |
15 | The opposite positions may be identified as the status quo ( p&l account only ) and the equivalent of annual financial statements ( p&l account , balance sheet , cash flow statement and full notes ) . |
16 | The tension between the status quo and change is an inherent part of transformation . |
17 | The tragedy is that , whatever the direction that market forces blow , when they are left to their own devices , the choice for workers in such industries is not between the status quo and redeployment , but between the status quo and loss of their jobs . |
18 | The tragedy is that , whatever the direction that market forces blow , when they are left to their own devices , the choice for workers in such industries is not between the status quo and redeployment , but between the status quo and loss of their jobs . |
19 | As I understand it , he offers a choice between the status quo and independence . |
20 | People are angry and are pitching hard because of the polarisation of the debate between the status quo or independence . |
21 | Franco 's own forces were similarly , if less virulently , shot through with internal rivalries and disagreements ; but if confronted with a choice between the status quo and the risk of " the reds " returning , they would all opt for the former . |
22 | Looking after the status quo is rather more their tendency , so we can perhaps expect a greater emphasis on defence with rather less activity from the operatives up front — the strikers . |
23 | 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 . |
24 | 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 ) . |
25 | 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 . |
26 | His critique of the alternative is more convincing than his defence of the status quo . |
27 | 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 ) . |
28 | 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 . |
29 | 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 . |
30 | 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 . |