status quo in the PONS Dictionary

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In order to continue publishing stories of its most popular characters, maintaining the status quo became necessary.
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And they have no respect for the status quo.
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The elite hoped to continue tradition and the status quo, through institutions such as the law of primogeniture (first-born son inherits everything).
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Education is about the students, not the adults running the system, but those adults will be determined to keep the status quo.
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We note on every hand this same easy and willing accommodation to the status quo, regardless of how onerous it may be.
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For less than the cost of opening a tent pole movie, you can change the status quo.
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A narrow struggle for higher wages by a small sector of the working-class, what is often called economism, hardly threatens the status quo.
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Of this total, 28% wanted fundamental changes, 66% gradual reforms. 10% expressed satisfaction with the status quo.
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In a classical bargaining problem the result is an agreement reached between all interested parties, or the status quo of the problem.
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This status quo is challenged in this episode as the objectifying gaze is highlighted and deconstructed, although not between the partners themselves.
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