Sentences with phrase «significant changes to the status quo»

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At this point, there was a significant push to enshrine the office as a two term limit for the sake of changing status quo and in 1951 they drafted an amendment to the constitution doing just that (Though it allowed the incumbent FDR and VP Truman to be exempt from this law until they were voted out, though this did not happen.

«For months, Mayor de Blasio has been asking us to support the status quo, and now that appears to be the position of the Democrat leadership in the Assembly, even though they requested and received significant changes to the mayoral control statute when it was first renewed in 2009,» Flanagan said.

In a statement announcing their endorsement, the Freedom Caucus said «our constituents will simply not accept a continuation of the status quo» and that «under the present circumstances and without significant changes to Conference leadership and process, [Webster] would be best equipped to earn back the trust of the American people.»

Undoubtedly, this has to do with the pace of change in tax and customer characteristics but I think that a significant reason is that the law publishers, with their legacies, have more to lose from abandoning books and print subscriptions and use lack of customer push as an excuse for maintaining the status quo.

1) For a profession whose raison d'être is to provide access to justice by meeting the public's legal needs, the fact that the status quo has left and continues to leave significant legal needs unmet in Ontario is another (perhaps the most important) driver of the need for change;