It over-represents the status quo, the ideological middle, and the wealthy, and leaves everyone else unrepresented. |
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We need more people who are both questioners of the status quo and visionaries. |
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Our politicians have no desire to change the status quo for they would be out of a job and all its benefits. |
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They were breaking with the status quo, upsetting the apple cart, taking part in a 60s style rebellion against the establishment. |
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The establishment decided in her favour and threw their weight behind her claim to the throne and maintaining the status quo. |
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The true view is that wherever the remedy of rescission is available it operates to restore the status quo ante so far as that is possible. |
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The partisans of the status quo don't hesitate to answer in the affirmative. |
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Retrospective media coverage has whitewashed King while ignoring how his messages are radical challenges to the status quo of today. |
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Practical realism must dictate that there is no alternative but to maintain status quo on a permanent basis. |
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Well, individuals fighting or rebelling against the status quo, the establishment, is good for drama. |
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I encourage all councillors and our reeve to open the books widely, to solicit public input and challenge the status quo. |
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Australia is a status quo country in alliance with the greatest revisionist country in the world. |
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I also saw that men were relegated to supporting the status quo even at their own expense if they choose to accept it. |
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I'd have to say I was content with the status quo or, alternatively, that I wanted change. |
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In that case, removal of subsidies will at worse simply maintain the status quo. |
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They zealously desire to preserve the status quo, which means to preserve their power. |
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This, he explains, would analyse our make-do-and-mend culture, our suspicion of the bravely new, our ingrained preference for the status quo. |
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Or are they to give the benefit of the doubt to the antis, and preserve the status quo? |
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Trudeau, who at age 40 still lived with his mother, emanated an attractive temptation to revolt against custom, to fight the status quo. |
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His presumed pragmatism upholds the status quo by ridiculing the relative few who dare to challenge it. |
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I'll choose a company with ideals they're trying to live up to over a business that's aiming for the status quo any day of the week. |
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Electorates are generally risk-averse, upholding the status quo unless they are thoroughly convinced that change is needed. |
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Recently, a few rumblings of discontent with the institutional status quo have been felt from various parts of Canada. |
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The AU was quick in its condemnation and has threatened sanctions against Togo unless it restores the status quo. |
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They can also see that the candidates have avowed not to disturb the corporate status quo. |
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Their intimidation tactics too often succeed, and the rental board authorities only maintain their status quo. |
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These cooperators were not utopians, but rather male heads of households seeking to make it to old age without upsetting the status quo. |
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His role as maverick was most evident was during his stints on the Open Market Committee, where he frequently squared off against the status quo. |
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Two incumbent selectwomen were trounced during the April 2 annual town election, showing voters' dissatisfaction with the status quo. |
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There is no doubt that the voters wanted to shake up the status quo and they have done this by creating what is almost a hung parliament. |
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Besides, it also summarizes the status quo of international service outsourcing transferrer and destination market. |
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Bundles are then arranged in pairs or triads, and respondents asked to choose between them and some status quo alternative. |
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Most of the time, they serve the status quo happily under the disguise of providing pure, unadulterated information. |
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In those and other works, he boldly challenged the music world's status quo, and his challenge has resonated through the ensuing decades. |
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Yet, brought to an extreme, a cohesive team can be complacent and unreceptive to new ideas that challenge the status quo. |
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The only legitimate and productive political action must be bounded by the limits of the status quo and the Democrats who protect it. |
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When there is no cash, there is no social mobility and therefore no threat to the status quo. |
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And he expects the status quo to remain the same this year, despite a raft of rule changes designed to spice up grand prix weekends. |
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In almost every aspect of daily life, vitality seems to be measured by the desire to change the status quo. |
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The demand for social change offers them but one alternative, viz., that of upholding the violent method or of maintaining the status quo. |
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Punk music, with its live-fast ethos and objurgation of the status quo, never was meant to last long. |
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Default options are the dirty options and because of status quo bias they are likely to stay that way for a while. |
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It's contemplated on the basis of principles that will not allow a return to the status quo ante. |
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Bangalore, Oct 22 Ahead of the Credit policy banks have sought status quo for categorisation of investments in their portfolios. |
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Those restrictions remained in force despite efforts to have them lifted and to have the military status quo ante at Strovilia restored. |
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On the other hand the status quo ante the Oslo Accords is looking pretty good now. |
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As a remedy, the Judge recommended, among other things, a return to the status quo ante with regard to the change in the staffing requirement. |
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This will cost more than the government would like, which is why we are being offered the carrot of a salary increase to accept the status quo. |
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As is often the case in the cosy cartel of party politics, the bigger parties are more than happy to retain the status quo. |
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Respondents unanimously rejected maintaining the status quo, expressing instead an openness to, and a desire for, change. |
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The Germans and French will seek to maintain the status quo but McCreevy is no stranger to bruising political battles. |
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The chapter also indicates that defenders of the status quo tend to misperceive the challenger of the status quo more than vice versa. |
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Kids will be kids, and kids, as we know, constantly challenge the status quo. |
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A challenge to the religious status quo carried strong political overtones, and vice versa. |
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So hopes of a quick snap-back to status quo ante at the end of hostilities quite misread the situation. |
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Whenever a policy change is enacted or whenever the status quo remains, life and limb are implicitly valued. |
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It is always more difficult to try and justify the status quo than to wave the banner for a bold, if imprecise, vision of things to come. |
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Hatch returns to the 1995 status quo and the Democrats agree to stop filibustering. |
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The denials issuing from Santos are almost pathetic in their plaintive appeal to maintenance of the status quo. |
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The firman of the Sultan contained also a guarantee for the status quo in the sanctuaries. |
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The instinct is to preserve the status quo against this irruption, not to see the irruption as constitutive of the status quo. |
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Though commercial forms of play buy release from work and responsibility, traditional play allows for temporary inversion of the status quo. |
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With no room for metaphor and no place for pagan poetics, Protestant discourse was undermining both a symbolic and a social status quo. |
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By supporting the status quo they have put political expediency before the interests of our children. |
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The fifties were free and easy if you endorsed the status quo, but repressive and suffocating if you did not. |
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It's a dark, cutting satire that's frighteningly relevant to the status quo. |
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The cynic within suggests that perhaps the status quo is driven by self interest of the major parties who benefit. |
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Or else a fall from the pretence, or realization of the true circumstances, may be a greater jarring of the spirits than the status quo. |
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Puppets are intentionally ugly against the glittery status quo, and inherently worthless in the eyes of the money economy. |
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However, we can all help to maintain the status quo of good versus evil in the world. |
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Given the strong desires of those who wish to maintain the status quo, however, the plan faces an uphill battle before being adopted. |
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One of the things that happens when you are in power for a long time is that, despite yourself, you become the status quo. |
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But his approach to changing the status quo is gradualist rather than revolutionary. |
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In the event, the two became great friends and the status quo was maintained. |
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Conversely, after the Chinese intervention, support declined, based on dimming prospects for gains beyond the status quo. |
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Under this approach, a court does not start with any presumption favoring, or disfavoring, the status quo. |
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Nevertheless, any move to Europeanize a policy sector will produce counter-pressures from groups that benefit from the status quo. |
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This makes it much easier to push a kind of fascist dogmatism onto people who do not make much attempt to question the status quo. |
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Abbas is toying with making an appeal to the international community and Netanyahu is clinging onto status quo. |
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If we're content to stick with the status quo and not search for alternatives, new products and ways of doing business will have a difficult time getting started. |
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Once upon a time, books were meant to upset the apple cart, to make politicians nervous, threaten the status quo, shake up our expectations, make us question things anew. |
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Unions must once again be able to inspire and enhance the dreams of the majority of working people instead of leading them up a blind alley that serves the status quo. |
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My fear is that although there are glimmerings of the notion of sustainability in this Budget, it is largely about perpetuating the status quo and the unsustainable. |
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All wars are set off by actions taken by a Reactionary Power who is dissatisfied with the existing status quo, a state of affairs which suits the status quo power. |
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The newly established status quo could not be left unchangeable. |
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I recognise the imperial shelteredness, the island suspiciousness, the old-world cultivation of private hopes and habits which leave the status quo alone. |
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In 2005, a sort of freeze was ordered, leaving the residents in the unsound status quo. |
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Men are a solitary animal and are generally content with the status quo. |
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I'm there to upset the status quo of someone's self-induced limitation. |
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Despite the vitriol voiced in September which prompted the dress-code discussion in the first place, the district is satisfied with the status quo. |
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Then there are those who come softly, slipping so silently under the wire that, if you don't look hard enough, can easily be mistaken for the status quo. |
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When hegemony breaks down, as it did for liberal democracy in late Weimar, there will be a recourse to extreme measures to preserve the status quo. |
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Its larger than life premise, prefixed with a true story tips its hat to every humanitarian unthankfully slogging for long hours to change the status quo. |
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Any deviation from the status quo risks shifting the spotlight onto the moderator, notes Louden. |
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But on the other hand, you can read books about the politics of the effort to discredit him. His cause was obviously unpleasant to the status quo. |
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It forced him to question the status quo at a very young age, it also left him with an extraordinary technical facility as a master concert percussionist. |
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He experimented boldly without much regard for precedent or the status quo. |
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Around 1,500 armed riot police were sent in to enforce the status quo. |
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Any sense of community and collectivity is subverted by the status quo. |
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Since the status quo is a product of the political system of the State it is ludicrous and illogical to conclude that more of it will somehow change things for the better. |
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The chief goal of the traditionalistic political culture is the maintenance of the status quo, with political power concentrated in the hands of established elites. |
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Sure, it was nice leaving her complicated life behind for a little while, but she knew she had to go back to the real world and figure out a way to deal with the status quo. |
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The position spots will be the hardest holes to fill maybe making it a necessity for some level of temporary status quo for 2008 slowing the transition. |
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You'll need something better than insisting that I or my hypothetical puppetmasters have something to gain from the status quo to argue your point. |
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When the problem is already political, when the intolerable situation is the status quo? |
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So the Congress of Vienna must be one of history's best examples of a concerted and successful attempt to defend and preserve a major and long-lasting status quo. |
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Enlightenment humanism freed the individual from the status quo of natural identity, allowing humanity to reach beyond self, to change rather than simply be. |
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A class is created of dogged self-righteous obstructionists with a vested interest in the status quo, however obsolescent, however decayed, however inappropriate to the site. |
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When asked about Scotland's future, 32 percent of Scots wanted devo max, 25 percent wanted to retain the status quo, and 31 percent backed full independence. |
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The status quo conditions depend on the continued existence of riprap and seawalls, which in turn result in an unchanged distribution of beach conditions. |
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We needed a three-year lead-in period where the status quo remained. |
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The thing to observe, however, is how masterful the educrats are at mounting a noisy, well-masked offensive at the slightest threat to their Soviet-style status quo. |
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There is no purpose in asking people to walk the neighborhood to canvass for someone who would support the status quo. |
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The unspoken controversy surrounding Hall lies in that he is challenging the status quo, which is cherished in Texas. |
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But it does signal that the status quo is up for grabs and that undistinguished pols like Cantor should be shaking in their boots. |
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It radiates her inner light and compass, her disregard for status quo. |
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In other words, the results of the debate quite frequently upheld the status quo. |
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Orwell liked to provoke arguments by challenging the status quo, but he was also a traditionalist with a love of old English values. |
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When many Scots compared what they had to the Irish offer of Home Rule, the status quo was considered inadequate. |
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The Government of Bermuda eventually reached an agreement with the Parliamentarians in England which left the status quo in Bermuda. |
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The treaty simply restored the status quo of 1748, with Silesia and Glatz reverting to Frederick and Saxony to its own elector. |
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The leaders were conservatives with little use for republicanism or revolution, both of which threatened to upset the status quo in Europe. |
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The King's intent was to respond to dissent while making as few actual changes in the status quo as possible. |
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While the Alliance Party supports the status quo position of Northern Ireland, it does not define itself as Unionist. |
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The incident ended when both countries agreed to return to the status quo ante which existed prior to the Moroccan occupation of the island. |
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Another war of stalemates, it ended with the status quo restored, after the threat of Persian intervention on behalf of the Spartans. |
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Despite the agreement at Alinagar, neither side was content with the status quo. |
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Serbia in turn declared the dissolution of the union as unconstitutional and the Yugoslavian army unsuccessfully tried to maintain status quo. |
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His consulship may therefore have been intended to emphasize the stability and status quo of the regime. |
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Banks had groomed the engineer, author and politician Davies Gilbert to succeed him and preserve the status quo, but Gilbert declined to stand. |
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Hong and fellow faculty member Huang have been perhaps the most visible agents provocateurs of the finance status quo. |
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Dadaism was an art rebellion, a backlash against the status quo, a breaking free of constraints and conventions. |
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Do not expect Lew to end the finance-friendly status quo at Treasury. |
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For them, the cowardly cynicism of the status quo will do just fine. |
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Borrowing a quote from Newton's first law of motion, the organization finds itself mired in its status quo quagmire, and doesn't want to move. |
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Each season witnesses a wholesale reinvention, with new galleries, styles, and power bases quaking the status quo. |
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But the Greeks thought otherwise and, according to the Armenians, wanted to enshroud the variation in the cleaning routine in a new status quo. |
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This sick status quo is a result of the rigged system of redistricting. |
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The status quo, based on a self-aggrandizing and insatiable commercial model, is untenable. |
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Caught in the dilemma between inflation and economic growth, the CBC chose to stick to the status quo. |
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Defenders of the status quo claim the old rules protect consumers. |
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He attacked the status quo and he pilloried the powers that be. |
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Today, China's leaders are stressing stability and the status quo. |
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At the time, existentialism was the philosophical equivalent of beatnikism, conjuring up images of berets, iconoclasm, and the rejection of status quo values. |
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However, despite the status quo, Belgium recovered surprisingly quickly. |
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If an offender recidivates during pretrial release, then he is detained after rearraignment under the 64 policies in Table 1 and the status quo policy. |
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He had also backed a successful campaign to retain the status quo in a referendum on changing the voting system held at the request of his coalition partners. |
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For both temporary restraining orders and preliminary injunctions, the goal is usually to preserve the status quo until the court is able to decide the case. |
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A separate peace agreement between Austria and Prussia was concluded at the Treaty of Hubertusburg on 15 February returning Central Europe to the status quo ante bellum. |
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Historians report there were very few signs, noting that social movements such as Methodism strongly encouraged conservative support for the political and social status quo. |
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Capacitor, like any company, is always trying to attract viewers, and it's by no means the first to challenge the concert dance status quo to do so. |
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However, most of the Commission's recommendations, such as its proposals to abolish Rutland or to reorganise Tyneside, were ignored in favour of the status quo. |
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In 1762, Spain invaded Portuguese territory as part of the Seven Years' War, but by 1763 the status quo between Spain and Portugal before the war had been restored. |
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In 1703 Louis pressed James into a more accommodating stance in the hopes of detaching England from the Grand Alliance, essentially promising to maintain the status quo. |
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Republicans are broadly in favor of the status quo, or a reform of the financing system that gives more power to the citizen, often through tax credits. |
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Even with some screening, banned-categorization outcomes may still be distributionally preferable to a status quo regime with legalized categorization. |
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The colony made a separate peace that respected its internal status quo. |
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The default position of local government is always to be against change, and most councillors in Birmingham are probably more than happy to rub along with the status quo. |
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However, the farmers in the current study also kept cattle for ceremonies, meat, draught, manure, lobola and status quo as observed in similar studies by Mapiye et al. |
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For the crime of asserting their rights, for daring to question the status quo, they find themselves subjected to days of almost Torquemadan torture. |
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I have always been clear that the status quo is not an option. |
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Nothing in this article is to be construed as a neo-Luddite plea for a return to some ancient status quo of quill pens, ink stands, and parchment. |
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Disruptive innovation challenges the status quo, stimulates discussion, and advances originative thinking Disruptive innovation is called for to address staff RN retention. |
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