Sentences with phrase «protecting the status quo»

Critics have questioned whether increasing veterans» reliance on private doctors might move the VA toward privatization, while proponents of such efforts have accused the VA of resisting steps to implement the program in order to protect the status quo.

The authors identify four principal strategies that communities and institutions use to resist change and protect the status quo: maginalization, diversion, seduction and attack.

The right knows this full well, but they'd rather watch the horsey dance and would do anything at all to protect the status quo — even if it means losing their jobs, their retirement accounts, and their homes.

It's a well used method to manipulate the recalcitrant member right back into the fold and protect the status quo.

You fail to mention that FFP was really to protect the status quo of the established Eurpean cartel.

Try to protect the status quo, as Tony Pulis did at West Brom, and a club will find itself overtaken.

«I think what you see here are efforts by people who are so adamantly opposed to engaging in tax reform because they love the status quo and they're protecting the status quo that they don't want us to be successful in regards to tax reform,» he said.

«Despite the powerful interests working to protect the status quo at the expense of our students» success, this state must become a national leader in student performance.»

Not a quick - fix change that papers over the cracks and protects the status quo; not a change that says «our cuts are better than yours», but change that leads to politicians being judged on how they treat people.

The public is highly unlikely to be sympathetic if lawmakers dare to hold up the budget simply because they want to protect the status quo.

Protagonists of this approach insist this in not about protecting the status quo but it is a means of assisting negotiation of what is clearly contested territory.

On the one hand they can protect the status quo, and with it the privileges that its Member States have gained as the result of WWII and the Cold War.

«It's no surprise that Senator Valesky wants to protect the status quo in Albany, it's allowed him to take home a $ 34,000 a year lulu without doing any additional work.

Gov. Andrew Cuomo has released an on - line «video message to the people» that's essentially a consolidated version of his budget address and an effort to rally New Yorkers to his side as he prepares to do battle with the special interests and lobbyists that want to protect the status quo in Albany.

«There are a lot of forces in Albany that are fighting to protect the status quo.

«The louder special interests scream to protect the status quo — and today they were screaming at the top of their lungs — the more we know we're right.»

«It's not a shock that a right - wing think tank would use a flawed report to oppose paying an honest day's pay for an honest day's work and to protect a status quo that has starved New York's infrastructure needs for generations,» spokesman Rich Azzopardi said in prepared remarks.

«Bill de Blasio and his special - interest friends will do anything to protect the status quo that is failing our children,» Lhota said in a blistering statement issued several hours after Capital broke news of the independent expenditure organized for de Blasio.

«Clearly, the enemies of reform will stop at nothing to protect the status quo.»

«They went completely quiet because what you have in Albany is this deal to protect the status quo.

It's unfortunate, but not surprising that these same corporations will be fighting to protect the status quo.»

Because they are all «wealthy and want to protect the status quo» and won't speak out.

@inappropriateCode as egalitarianism and protecting the status quo are not inherently at odds with each other it would be easy to find (or at least construct) a political ideology which does both; thus showing that your definition of the political spectrum may be right often but can not be right everytime - and should be disavowed

The PRC must take into account a few points: 1) the U.S. is staunchly opposed to a forceful revision of the status quo, regardless of who initiates it, and has proven willing to deploy up to 2 carrier groups to protect the status quo.

«Three months ago, the taxi industry put forward a proposal to protect the status quo, and limit competition and innovation,» emailed Uber spokesman Matt Wing.

As many senior scientists dither and protect the status quo, postdocs organize a conference to take matters into their own hands.

But the Black Panther — a superhero, an archetype entirely defined by protecting status quos — took on a «Prime Directive» approach to foreign relations.

We are also expected to buy into the notion that Johnny is protecting the status quo; meaning things would become even worse if Blackheart were to become the new Devil.

Nicholas Cage plays another character protecting the status quo in National Treasure.

Because blocking is relatively easy, the unions are usually powerful enough to stop reforms they consider a threat to their interests, and thus to protect a status quo that benefits them.

Policy can protect the status quo and further entrench old models, or it can help accelerate reforms and scale innovation.

Some assign responsibility for this disconnect to zealous reformers who are more interested in peddling their nostrums than in evaluating them, or to vested interests that aggressively protect the status quo instead of welcoming evidence about alternatives.

Much of what passes for «reform» protects a status quo in which success is seldom rewarded and failures go unpunished.

Joel Klein, Controversial as Chancellor of NYC Department of Education, Offers Lessons on Fixing Education WNYC: Klein writes about his eight - year mission of improvement: demanding accountability, eliminating political favoritism, and battling a powerful teachers union that seemed determined to protect a status quo that didn't work for kids.

We're designed to protect the status quo.»

Diversity and Distrust calls vociferously for a «transformative liberalism» with «spine,» but it leans more toward protecting the status quo than toward advocating major transformations.

She will be a Secretary of Education who puts the interests of America's children above the interests of an entrenched education bureaucracy that protects the status quo.

Those funds are supposed to be for the education of the students, not for featherbedding and protecting the status quo.

«Waiting for «Superman»» reminds us of two truths — most teachers are good and many are great, even heroic, but the teachers unions are the enemy of reform and work to protect the status quo at every turn.

For those of us deeply involved in public education reform, this issue simultaneously represents potentially the most productive area of reform and exhibits the most intransigent support base protecting the status quo.

Many classroom - management problems are simply calculated distractions by students who want to avoid looking foolish or feeling powerless — to protect the status quo of an academically challenging classroom and thus maintain the illusion of safety.

Giving a free pass to those who want to protect the status quo is no solution for bad schools.

«You've got entrenched political interests protecting the status quo and a worsening fiscal situation.

Protecting the status quo is big business in California.

Unfortunately, those protecting the status quo use a narrow set of data to create a false narrative.

«The Senators that voted to confirm Mrs. DeVos — including Wisconsin's Senator Ron Johnson — should be commended for standing on behalf of parents and students as well - funded forces protecting the status quo reacted with predictable hyperbole.»

It's an attempt to protect the status quo no matter how badly it fails communities, parents, and children.

You can try to dismiss him as protecting the status quo, or maybe you can consider his and other educator's views because they have a wealth of knowledge and experience.

According to the report, many parents are using the schools as a political cudgel to protect the status quo:

The Dump on Indie campaign will continue like many other campaigns protecting the status quo: until it's taken for granted.