Big producers like Saudi Arabia, Iraq and Nigeria have been either mute or in favor of maintaining the status quo.

沙特、伊拉克和尼日利亚等主要产油国要么保持沉默，要么支持维持现状。

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Xi cannot push through the economic package he hopes to table in the fall without support from regime conservatives, especially in the military, who favor the status quo on the Korean Peninsula.

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These factors in favor of the status quo suggest to its skeptics that nothing short of Olympic disaster will bring about a change.

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In 2012, it was a minority of 47 percent in favor of stricter gun laws and 46 percent in favor of the status quo.

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