It's probably a necessary trait for anyone trying to overturn an entrenched status quo.
But he has a long way to go before he reaches the entrenched status of Peter Robinson.
The governor is building on his reputation as a man who will criticize both Republicans and Democrats to upend what he considers the entrenched status quo.
LIKE a bubble caption over a cartoon, one major question looms over the government of Japan's new prime minister, Junichiro Koizumi: can an entrenched status quo party pull off major reforms in a democracy that has no effective opposition?
Ms. Finney told the participants, all aged from 20 to 40, that American parties also had "an entrenched status quo" that made it difficult for nonestablished candidates to gain traction.
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.
We read the same headlines, and see the same deeply entrenched status quo, that all of you do.
The flight to New York and Silicon Valley may seem an entrenched status quo to many young professionals when it is actually no more than a recent trend.
