The phrase "alter the status" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when discussing changes to a particular condition, position, or state of something.
Example: "To proceed with the project, we need to alter the status of the application to 'approved'."
Alternatives: "change the status" or "modify the status".
But the U.S. has been reluctant to adopt a slogan intended to alter the status quo.
Until recently, Europeans had appeared reluctant to alter the status quo, fearing a dilution of their power.
He insisted that Taiwan was not trying to alter the status quo with China, which regards Taiwan as a renegade province.
Administration officials have stuck to that position despite repeated appeals from Taiwan, which has said that the referendum is not intended to alter the status quo.
Only Koech tried to alter the status quo by forcing things after 400m and again at 3,000m but it did not last.
It's an old story on Long Island: When an ambitious project seeks to alter the status quo for the greater good, the Nimby beast rises to kill it.
Last year, three reformist legislators altered the status quo after they appeared in Parliament in bright tight-fitting head scarves instead of all-encompassing chadors.
"It is about raising awareness, trying to level the playing field, altering the status quo a little bit and changing perceptions," says Nwanoku.
"This is a time, during the second world war, which altered the status of women in society for all time, and it was precisely because of the sort of activities that are detailed in this archive".
Indeed, local leaders who have tried to make changes complain of running into a thicket of local interest groups and powerful bureaucrats in Tokyo — both forces against altering the status quo.
The document, from the European Parliament's Committee on the Environment, Public Health and Food Safety, stops short of altering the status quo on cattle feed, pointing out that because cows are vegetarian they should not be fed so-called "processed animal proteins" (PAP).
