Sentences with phrase «status quo around»

I had some overripe bananas, which I had to protect with a label or our cleaning lady would have thrown them away: I also had an itch to do something new, a craving for peanut butter (which is really just status quo around here, «around here» being inside my -LSB-...]

Change is no longer periodic or episodic, that is, something you can accurately anticipate, gradually move to accommodate, and then settle into a predictable new status quo around.

The current status quo around the United States immigration policy is bad for innovation and bad for our economy.

Not exact matches

So whilst the closed door discussions will be about how to keep the status quo regardless of the rapidly increasing power costs and breakdown of service that is now being experienced around the country, the open conversations being had by the people are excited discussions about the future because we trust the likes of Elon Musk and Mike Cannon - Brookes to get the job done more than we trust big power and Government to come to any kind of meaningful and affordable long term solution.

The status quo typically tends to stick around for a while in a telecommunications merger like this one, which could take a year or more to be considered by regulators.

As he himself explained, when he didn't question some aspect of the status quo, more often than not it was because he hadn't yet had a chance to noodle around with other options.

TND Guest Contributor: Nathan McDonald People around the world are sick and tired of the status quo.

The currencies of laboring fundaments revolving around systemic issuances of the civil and even the moral duties may one day dry out and we here in the USA will find the ends means of welfare capitalisms to be as a blockage within status quo partisanships giving rises to and toward just the opposite of long nurtured agendas within passive welfare issues long held holdings.

«Transparency is essential given that the backroom deals around HB 142 have only resulted in a status quo that continues to subject trans student - athletes, coaches, and fans to discrimination,» he said.

Two things — this «whole blog is about accepting the status quo» — look around you on this site, the AOBs are out in force, the most numerous and vocal of all the «Arsenal supporters» on here by far.

if every body holds such shortsighted and myopic views on managerial appointments then some of the best young managers we have around now will still be on the sidelines watching anachronistic dinosaurs managing teams just to maintain the status quo.....

It is certainly anti-establishment: There is a lot of money around keeping the status quo, and local farmers don't have an industry mouth - piece to make their case.

It's like stepping out of the matrix, or stepping into an alternate reality — one of freedom from the status quo, of freedom from anger and fear and the surge of emotion that comes around right before you spank your child.

As this matter plays out, we will preserve the status quo and continue to engage with the New York legislature, as we are in dozens of states around the country.»

And if it is to sell change successfully it needs to be united around an alternative course of action, and clear that this alternative is better than the status quo.

«Certainly, we need the roads paved, we need the sewers upgraded, but that kind of keeps us hovering around the status quo.

When those expiration dates come around and the parties can not reach an agreement on how to replace the fiscal policy, they will often simply do a temporary CR just to keep the status quo in place.

«So it could be the status quo, it could be a big change, but what we do know is the president is in place for three more years, and some of the worrisome realities around budgeting could certainly [be] exacerbated.»

Their campaign is connecting to the desire for an electoral alternative to the status quo — in order to fight around ecological questions, among many other issues.

That approach is now being tied together with an attack on the status quo which seeks to provide a new unity around economic recovery.

«Change comes about when millions of people look around them and they decide that the status quo is simply not acceptable,» he said.

Indeed, if land managers in Africa were as well funded as Yellowstone National Park, at around $ 4,100 per square kilometer, they could afford to manage the average unfenced lion population at around two - thirds its potential size, a step up from the current status quo.

Given this apparent failure of the status quo, Williams suggests a re-branding of graduation as a «life in recovery transition day,» built around a commitment to a long term recovery plan, and reinforced by the recovering person's support network.

Interestingly, there's another coal - dependent state that's never gotten around to adopting an RPS where schoolchildren are also being used as pawns in the battle between science and the status quo.

Kering is partnering with startups, universities, and an advisory group of 15 forward - thinking millennials from around the world to track down what she calls «disruptive innovations» — the forward - thinking ideas that will challenge the status quo.

About Site - We want to encourage Christians to be salt and light in the full panoply of life, living out the norms of the kingdom in ways that do good to people around us while challenging the cultural status quo with the norms of the kingdom and the prospect of a new heaven and a new earth.

While she has assembled around her an incredible team of vendors, she is the heart and soul driving an operation known for defying the status quo.

We as human beings have always strived to push the status quo, regardless of how impossible those around us feel it is.

About Blog We want to encourage Christians to be salt and light in the full panoply of life, living out the norms of the kingdom in ways that do good to people around us while challenging the cultural status quo with the norms of the kingdom and the prospect of a new heaven and a new earth.

As states and districts look to turn around their own failing schools, creating an RSD - like vehicle would give them a powerful way to free a troubled school from the shackles of the status quo.

With the ability to throw this kind of money around, NEA's effect on maintaining the status quo with its attendant failing educational policies can not be exaggerated.

But rather than use substantial salary increases to drive groundbreaking reform, the de Blasio administration tinkered around the edges, by and large preserving the status quo.

Georgia voters rallied around the charters because they want something better for their children than the dismal status quo.

Secondary report cards are currently remarkably similar around the province, and the template differs little from this convergent status quo.

Or if it was, it was only that for a few short weeks, until the industry forces manning the status - quo battlements got their mind around the fact that the internet wasn't going to go away no matter how many ruby - slippered heel clicks they threw at the damned thing.

The world around innovators expects them to snap back into place, to resume their role within the status quo.

Any of these choices are politically risky, so barring a major fiscal melt - down, I would place my bets on minor tinkering around the status quo.

If that's the case, it will be in your best interest to change the status quo, and turn things around.

I would note 2012 free cashflow was only $ 0.2 m — but if we assume a stabilisation in working capital (& the current status quo re AREO), that would elevate underlying free cashflow to around $ 1.5 m. Also, as mentioned above, increased (non-AREO) management fees & continued expense restraint will hopefully make a contribution in 2013.

Our employees don't drive fancy cars or fly around the country spewing status quo rhetoric to the masses of how its better for an animal to be dead then to find them appropriate and loving homes.

They have no business lecturing about what butterfly effect catalyst could have diverged the paths that WW2 took when they were bullshitting us about Saddam's «yellowcake», Assad's chemical weapons, and throwing around terms like «fascist» around to smear someone with no political history while sanitizing efforts of nationalization, corporatism, incorporation of Marxism, all the collectivism, the authoritarian / totalitarian approach to bring about the aforementioned, and down to eugenics from the other end of the USA's faux - political spectrum and status quo.

Focusing more on the player's ability to traverse the world around them, it removes the limits and the status quo of forced tight spaces that have become expected from the genre, and gives players a sense of freedom that we have never before been seen in a zombie title.

They provide a great insight into the international, and more importantly vibrant local art scene and exhibit groundbreaking art, especially the smaller places that bravely challenge the status quo and where one can find the most challenging art around.

, an Instagram project that challenges the status quo of social media, by encouraging users to utilize the platform to gain support around entrepreneurship, innovation, and authentic storytelling.

About the instructor: Larissa May is a creative consultant, fashion blogger, and founder of @HALFTHESTORY, an Instagram project that challenges the status quo of social media, by encouraging users to utilize the platform to gain support around entrepreneurship, innovation, and authentic storytelling.

Since disrupting the status quo with her 1994 exhibition «Black Male: Representations of Masculinity in Contemporary American Art» Golden has continued to create challenging dialogues around art and artists, making her one of the most respected curators in America.

From the transformation of New York City's Bohen Foundation into a 13th Street Subway Station in 2004, to the siting of a Prada boutique in a Texan desert in 2005, and the insertion of institutional spaces within the architecture of a public gallery, as in the Serpentine Gallery's critically acclaimed The Welfare Show in 2006, their work raises issues around social models and social spaces, and prompts a re-thinking of the status quo.

There is a path toward action that can avoid the paralysis around the cap - and - trade concept that has become the best friend of stasists seeking status - quo energy policy.

You know a lot of focus on economic incentives for the greenies gets thrown around, but there is a consistent lack of skepticism for all the (much larger) groups benefiting from the status quo.

Interestingly, there's another coal - dependent state that's never gotten around to adopting an RPS where schoolchildren are also being used as pawns in the battle between science and the status quo.