It's wise to first try and change the status quo and then submit the result to the public for its approval or rejection.
The borders should not be changed by force and the status quo ante should be restored as a pre-condition for a subsequent demarcation and delineation of the border.
Cohan, I can no longer defend Goldman Sachs and the status quo on Wall Street.
The elections have come and gone, and the status quo has been maintained.
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And the status quo has become sufficiently frustrating that a few new senators have considered a radical option: mutiny.
And that status quo in Washington has fought us every step of the way over the last four years.
Sure does to me and I love these words because they challenge our thinking, our beliefs, our feelings and the status quo.
But voters increasingly see Democrats as beholden to teachers' unions and the status quo, says Eric Hanushek, an education expert at Stanford University's Hoover Institution.
And the status quo is simply neither tenable nor acceptable.
Its job is to recommend a single proportional alternative to Britain's current first-past-the-post electoral system, with voters asked to choose in a referendum between that alternative and the status quo.
We see-saw between our aspirations and the status quo.
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However, their generations of monopoly status and their overregulation by government have led to a level of complacency and entitlements that has them naturally relying on government to preserve their business model and the status quo.
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It's a status quo that extends beyond any particular party and right now that status quo is fighting back with everything it's got, with the same old tactics that divide and distract us from solving the problems people face, whether those problems are health care that folks can't afford or a mortgage they cannot pay.
Voters are dissatisfied and angry at the status quo, and thus their opinions are swayed frequently based on recent news developments.
This subtle shift will motivate unions to bargain in sincerity and not hide behind status quo, and it will also allow state employers to bargain in good faith for structural and work rule changes.
Rather, it will seek to defend and perpetuate the status quo, while expanding bureaucratic power and prerogatives at the margin.
Network broadcasters would be better served spending less time and assets trying to preserve the status quo and better served by trying to create new business models.
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Whatever his instincts, Bashar has to deal with powerful security and political interests that benefit from the status quo and have mindsets firmly rooted in the past.
Regulators may interfere with the ability of entrepreneurs to price their services attractively, and beneficiaries of the status quo may deploy lawyers and politicians to defend their franchises.
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The first thing that came to mind is the power of women and how crowdfunding can help alter the status quo and Wall Street stranglehold on the distribution of capital.
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Thatcher has shown that there is power and dignity to be won by defying the status quo and the majority rather than by adapting to them.
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And as long as Americans accept this status quo, and continue electing politicians who refuse to speak the truth about our dire fiscal situation, then the blame should be put squarely on us.
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And it is - women definitely in Pakistan are challenging the status quo and I think that this film and Kainat's story represents that.
Your energy goes into defending your actions and maintaining the status quo.
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He or she repeatedly asks "what if" when thinking about how the world works and how the status quo could be dramatically improved.
"His success is a reminder that no one who dares to stand up and challenge the status quo does so alone, " she said.
Connelly begins his race with two huge problems: his lack of a connection to the state of Maine and the status-quo political environment.
In short, he is not afraid to pursue major structural changes, even in the face of the conventional wisdom and an entrenched status quo political establishment.
The concentration on redistribution policy and the developing status quo-like conditions indicate that the fiscal cliff fight is not a fight over making economic conditions better for the middle class.
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Senior business leaders will need to sponsor this mindset shift and challenge the status quo engrained in so many organizations, or risk being de-positioned by a competitor who becomes more productive.
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