Sentences with phrase «maintain the status quo as»

Often, that doesn't materialise, but in general, a country is much more likely to maintain the status quo as long as the same person remains in power.

There is a strong internal opposition by partisan elites to maintain the status quo as a way to consolidate power and influence the President.»

They have a fiduciary responsibility to maintain the status quo as long as possible, after all.

ABA President Stephen N. Zack is urging the Bar Council of India to maintain the status quo as it considers whether to allow foreign lawyers to establish law firms in...

We heard rumors that it was going to do it with the Galaxy S8 last year but that didn't happen and the Galaxy S9 has maintained the status quo as well.

Not exact matches

While models that attempt to forecast potential economic impacts provide useful insights regarding potential risks when exploring policy choices, the Commission is of the view that it must also consider the potential upsides of greater choice, including the retention of subscribers in the system, as well as the risks associated with maintaining the status quo in a context of increased demand for more choice.

China has been issuing increasingly strident calls for Taiwan to toe the line, even as Tsai has pledged to maintain the status quo and keep the peace.

When challenged, you realize that there's no such thing as maintaining the status quo.

Factor in the cost of hiring someone new, the hassle of training them and the disruption to business as usual — all of which can be significant — and it's certainly easier to maintain the status quo.

This psychological relationship is then exploited by the priest class as one means of maintaining the status quo.

In their mind, it's a pastor as an authority figure, preaching and teaching all the right things and maintaining the status quo.

Lots of meaningless words intended to maintain the status quo and avoid the hard questions, such as «where's the evidence for your delusions?»

Remember, those who refused to change and were only interested in maintaining the status quo are not the one remembered as saints.

The church institutions now in place — congregations, seminaries, church boards, as well as the multiple institutions of society — are all oriented to sustaining the conditions of their own survival, and in most cases sustaining the conditions of survival means maintaining the status quo.

This would be the closest to a realistic signing as it would get, otherwise the most realistic scenario is maintaining the current status quo.

However if reports are correct and fans are genuinely not being allowed to peacefully protest at home matches so as to maintain the status quo, then the propaganda really starts within the emirates.

As long as the status quo is maintained by the NCAA players will be paid and compensated in some fashion by agents, schools, or companies to sign with a certain school or companAs long as the status quo is maintained by the NCAA players will be paid and compensated in some fashion by agents, schools, or companies to sign with a certain school or companas the status quo is maintained by the NCAA players will be paid and compensated in some fashion by agents, schools, or companies to sign with a certain school or company.

So as long as the status quo is maintained by the NCAA this issue will continue.

David was also the producer of «An Inconvenient Truth,» and just as that film served as a wake - up call for climate change, «Fed Up» hopes to similarly educate the public about the serious flaws in our food system and how the food and beverage industries have a vested interest in maintaining a status quo that puts profits over our collective health — and often with the assistance of the federal government.

Businesses in the UK will face increasing pressure on their margins as they will find themselves paying for a higher customs duty just to maintain the status quo.

The determined refusal of Labour and the Tories to even include PR as an option on the ballot paper makes it * look * as if they are trying to ensure that the status quo which gives them their undeserved electoral advantage is maintained, whatever the outcome.

The court might call for a re-run of the election as happened to the New Patriotic Party (NPP) or ask that the status quo be maintained.

If anyone is not satisfied, they should write to the courts as an independent arbiter for an interpretation of «maintaining status quo»: rather than spread misinformation in the court of public opinion,»

The court has maintained that Status Quo be maintained (This includes BUA's current ownership of our mines in Edo State) but the management of Dangote Group Dangote, as has been their strategy in the past to other companies in competition with them, is still seeking to out - muscle competition through backdoor means rather than let the court decide.

Obama has maintained the status quo (for the well off) just as effectively as Bush did.

BUA added, «Whilst the governor based the legitimacy of his actions on a purported stop - work order from the Ministry of Mines, BUA wishes to reiterate that there is a pronouncement of the Federal High Court sitting in Benin on December 5, 2017 that declared the stop - work order issued by the ministry as a contravention of the court's directives to maintain the status quo and thus deemed it illegal.

«Both dirty and clean firms are active in lobbying, suggesting that while dirty firms lobby to maintain the status quo clean firms view environmental regulation as an opportunity to gain firm - level advantages,» Magali Delmas, Jinghui Lim and Nicholas Nairn - Birch, researchers at UCLA, said in their report.

For all our attempts to change it, our bodies fight back as much as possible to maintain the status quo.

What we need to recognize is that our preoccupation with delivering training often means maintaining the status quo to the detriment of progress because of the infrequency of which they are experienced and that knowledge transfer, as a concept and practice, is seriously flawed.

But by 1980, the report states, the pace of the expansion of special - education programs and services «slowed dramatically,» as the school systems «struggled to maintain the status quo with fewer financial resources.»

Once civil rights statutes banned such de jure discrimination, some fire departments came up with ways to maintain the discriminatory status quo, such as requiring applicants to pass standardized tests before being hired, tests that African American and Latino applicants tended to fail.

Once civil rights statutes banned such de jure — i.e., legally enforced — discrimination, some fire departments came up with ways to maintain the discriminatory status quo, such as requiring applicants to pass standardized tests before being hired, tests that African American and Latino applicants tended to fail.

Framing this year's election of Indiana's top school official as a choice between maintaining the status quo or «rapid changes» to the state's education policy, The Times of Northwest Indiana says it chooses continuing change.

(Calif.) As Gov. Jerry Brown's administration continues to mull adding restrictions on how schools spend billions in new money, the state's top educator, Superintendent Tom Torlakson, said Tuesday the additional funding needs to increase services — not just maintain the status quo.

a) use poverty as an excuse to maintain the status quo and b) think kids living in poverty can't learn and c) want to spend years solving a problem that needs fixing NOW

Companies that look to the past and seek to maintain the status quo don't even notice the innovators (the Amazons and the Googles) as they rush past them and into the future.

Data can't really show you what a complete pivot to a new business model can do esp introducing a new technology as the prime thing, but its pretty good at showing you how to maintain the status quo.

«As with any success that threatens to change the status quo, there are those that will resist that change and take any measures necessary to maintain the existing playing field, even if it is to the detriment of the vast majority and the benefit of the very few.»

The ideal scenario is to maintain the status quo, as far as your employment goes.

He became concerned with such issues as: the evidence of a causal relationship between common feeding practices and serious health problems; the perceived disconnect between the nutritional requirements of felis silvestris catus and all other species of cats; an industry with a vested interest in grain as the basis for its products; a veterinary education system with little nutritional teaching, subsidized by commercial pet food industries; a questionable government concept approval and oversight process; the economic inertia of maintaining the status quo; and the rejection of science - based belief systems on the extremes of both sides of the issue.

And yet, just as Trump conned voters by swaying attention towards his antics, Pierce's vulgar performance disclosed a fact that can be applied to the contemporary media landscape: in a 24 - hour news cycle that needs constant fodder, influence is peddled through an affinity for the obscene, not by maintaining the status - quo.

Matt Calderwood is known for his often perilous performances, sculpture and film works, his carefully controlled sculptural systems transform everyday household items such as buckets, wine glasses, basketballs and shovels into extraordinary structures where every part is physically essential to maintain a delicate status quo.

And as I've written before, all it takes is a sprinkling of uncertainty to maintain the fossil - fueled status quo.

The problem is, as we all know, big business is very slow to innovate, out of both bureaucratic inefficiency and a desire to maintain the status quo.

As alternatives become more viable, and as the consequences of maintaining the status quo become increasingly hard to ignore, getting clean of our addiction will become a no - brainer for most communitieAs alternatives become more viable, and as the consequences of maintaining the status quo become increasingly hard to ignore, getting clean of our addiction will become a no - brainer for most communitieas the consequences of maintaining the status quo become increasingly hard to ignore, getting clean of our addiction will become a no - brainer for most communities.

Here are three reactions to my post about Machiavelli's view of the impediments to making big changes in societies — as in the asymmetrical nature of the battle to take the carbon out of energy systems in the face of both societal inertia and intensive efforts by entrenched interests to maintain the status quo.

My advice to them: don't let the perfect be the enemy of the good (on the other hand, perhaps they do not care: the important thing is to maintain the status quo for as long as possible).

As for the argument for «innovation» over «old - style pollution restrictions», this is nonsensical and an argument to maintain the status quo.

Some skeptics have long tried to use the uncertainty as an excuse for maintaining the status quo.

While we are pleased that the coastal waters off the west coast will not see any new offshore oil drilling (for the time being), we view this as simply maintaining the status quo that has been afforded us for the last 30 years.