Sentence examples for curious status from inspiring English sources

(Photograph: Carin Baer) "Mad Men" has a curious status in our household.

By George Packer November 9, 2009 "Mad Men" has a curious status in our household.

Baikonur the town (formerly Leninsk) has retained its curious status as a closed, Russian-administered city within Kazakhstan.

Indeed, the island retains a curious status: It is technically part of Manhattan, but the state holds a lease on it until 2068.

This practice reflects the curious status of people, like Tuluzko, who come from immigrant families with Jewish ancestry: While they can obtain citizenship in Israel based on their Jewish roots (for example, a Jewish grandfather on their father's side), they might not be recognized as Jews by the rabbinate (because to the Orthodox Judaism is passed through the mother).

As a principle, Church's Thesis has a somewhat curious status.

In 1982, with Bosnia under hardline communist rule, Izetbegovic got a 14-year term for his publication Islam Between East And West, an attempt to define the curious status of Bosnia's Muslims, a population of semi-westernised Balkan Slavs.

He joked and he jousted, all the while taking great delight in his curious outsider status.

(Loewenheim 1989: 1) This highlights the curious legal status of programs.

So we have the curious position of no one really defending the status quo and no one clearly explaining how it is supposed to be fixed.

Others are obviously curious about CIO status.