This is code for what has long seemed the only feasible solution: something not far from the status quo.
The victors in Iowa, Senator Barack Obama for the Democrats and former Gov. Mike Huckabee for the Republicans, are as far from the status quo as possible.
As outsiders do not often understand, and perhaps should, the clash between Canada's centre and its provinces extends far beyond the status of French-speaking Quebec.
In this paper, the calorimeter design, the R&D studies carried out so far and the status of engineering are described.
Our considerations so far of the status of Daltonian atomism have not yet taken account of the area in which chemistry was to be making spectacular progress by the middle of the nineteenth century, namely, organic chemistry.
While the public remains mixed in its view regarding the NSA, the issue of surveillance, and where to draw the line — allowing the false dichotomy for the moment — between privacy and security, the technology industry is increasingly in-step: The government has gone too far, and the status quo is unacceptable.
The Draft European Union (Referendum) Bill, published by the Conservatives in 2013, proposed this form of words: "Do you think that the United Kingdom should remain a member of the European Union?" Some thought that leaned too far towards the status quo, encouraging a yes vote, and the Electoral Commission said it was not clear and direct enough.
On top of being bookish, Taylor was far outside the status quo of his midwestern peers.
In the workplace, I've encountered various versions of, "Well that's not how things work around here," when I propose a radical new idea or deviate too far from the status quo.
Or, to seek the ideal body type as assigned to us by media and fashion, to make sure we are exercising, staying "healthy" and not moving too far outside the status quo of pleasure, appetite, desire or expression.
