Sentences with phrase «maintaining the status quo against»

Very often, emphasis on reconciliation has in effect meant a way of maintaining the status quo against necessary radical changes.

The inbuilt checks allow for more extreme popular positions not to result in more extreme outcomes but it doesn't prevent the de facto institution of a narrow ruling class capable of using considerable powers to maintain the status quo against their removable which must then be by revolutionary means.

Not exact matches

Removed from day - to - day business operations, many top executives develop a bias against action and toward maintaining the status quo.

That horrendous cost must be weighed against the supposed benefits of maintaining the TBTF [too - big - to - fail] status quo.

The status quo is heavily slanted in favor of fiat currencies, against gold, and maintaining their power and wealth.

Brueggemann acknowledges that in every social dispute some participants seek to maintain the status quo, others caution against hasty change, and still others engage in transformative action.

However, on 10th July, the Commission received an order given by the Federal High Court, Abuja and dated 6th July, 2017, directing the «parties to maintain the status quo till the determination of the Plaintiff's motion on notice, in respect of the suit filed by the concerned senator, seeking orders of injunction against the Commission to stop it from acting on the petition by the Kogi West Senatorial District Registered Voters.

But on the same 10th July, the Commission received an order given by the Federal High Court, Abuja and dated 6th July, directing the «parties to maintain the status quo till the determination of the plaintiff's motion on notice» in respect of the suit filed by the concerned senator, seeking orders of injunction against the Commission to stop it from acting on the petition by the registered voters of Kogi West Senatorial District.

INEC had suspended the recall process against Melaye after it was served with an order granted by Justice John Tsoho of the Federal High Court, Abuja which directed the commission to maintain the status quo pending the determination of the suit that Melaye filed to challenge his recall process.

After he is blackmailed about his sexuality by a smart - alecky but sad - sack classmate (Logan Miller) who reads the private emails Simon has written to his mystery love, Simon will do anything to maintain the status quo in his life, his escalating cover - up lies unintentionally pitting his friends against each other and creating confusion and resentment among the group and, finally, toward him.

Without such mechanisms, Hollywood may remain a world where people maintain the status quo by hiring folks they already know, a place without institutional guardrails protecting against sexism and racism.

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.

I am very much against maintaining the current status quo.