Sentences with phrase «like maintaining the status quo»

We are prone to getting comfortable quickly and tend to like maintaining the status quo, especially when it comes to our jobs.

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So when influential figures in Chicago like Fried resist comparisons to the very cities that are siphoning Chicago's best native talent, they're maintaining the status quo.

Puerto Rico, like Detroit before it, represents the endpoint of politicians maintaining a failed status quo: total financial collapse.

In Spain, there is clear monopoly in terms of the rights with the likes of Barcelona and Real Madrid able to negotiate their own separate deals, which maintains the status - quo.

Most have found, though, that it's easier to just maintain the status quo than it is to unleash features that their readers would like and help distinguish themselves from a crowded market.

We buy from baen and sourcebooks but the vast majority of purchases come from the US kindle store (because in the Aussie one amazon is maintaining the status quo pricing) I would like options but the publishing industry failed to pay attention to the lessons that the music and film industry offered.

I still would like to maintain the status quo; Chase is the only one which has disturbed that and they ought to get smacked real hard for being so dishonest if they go through with the changes.

I'm sure that's the way that the likes of Princess Peach and Bowser see it, but the grim reality for the vast majority of the population is a nightmarish 1984 situation with the interminable wars that they are engaged in merely a smokescreen for the real war being waged against the working populace of Mushroom Kingdom to maintain the intolerable status quo.

The few shows where she participated were devoted specifically to Latin American artists, categorisations (like female art) that sadly just maintain the status quo.

Those like you, Basil, who call upon the authority of journals and persons in the climatology field (who obviously, like yourself, demonstrate a serious lack of understanding of such matters as thermodynamic equilibrium, entropy and unbalanced energy potentials) epitomise the process whereby the greatest hoax of all time has been, and continues to be promulgated by those with personal pecuniary interests in maintaining the status quo.

Like other greenwashing campaigns, it's about using the iconography of sexy technology and down - home Americana to maintain the status quo.

Maybe it is because many bar associations have been around since the late 1800s, but they really like to maintain the status quo.

By refusing to even countenance the fact that there may be bias, people like you help to maintain the status quo, by not asking the right questions.

Maintaining the status quo is exactly what led to the demise of some big, successful businesses like Circuit City, Blockbuster, Toys R Us, and others.

Whether you're struggling to keep up or simply maintaining status quo, feeling like someone else is experiencing success after success — whether earned or not — can be aggravating, and soon enough you start to question your career, your degree and even your coffee order.