Strikingly, all the leading candidates have so far been deferential in their statements on the military and their jealously guarded status, secret budgets and economic empire.
The left, by contrast, focuses on guarding the status quo, a less animating mission.
He recognizes that the accumulation of interest groups guarding the status quo, and the remarkable increase in partisan polarization (especially on the right), are structural changes, difficult, at best, to reverse.
They were opposites: Miller the urbane economist bent on breaking an industry's antilabor policy, Kuhn the starchy lawyer guarding the status quo and arguing that baseball would be doomed if the reserve system were toppled for free agency.
These outcomes need to be delivered to the public not merely as opposition to the opposition or guarding the status quo, but as a viable vision for the future, one which elicits passion worthy of a vote.
Male response to copulation calls should therefore vary in accordance with social status of the mating and listening male, with female mate-guarding status as well as with the occurrence or absence of ejaculation.
"At every opportunity 'rebels' turn into 'self-satisfied masters' who oppose any changes and jealously guard their status and privileges".
Daisy carefully guards her status, but that is the only effort she takes, and she would have been horrified to have been likened to a Kardashian.
"This is especially damaging to us because we so jealously guard our nonpartisan status," Mr. Bond said.
"We talk to people about the problems, and I tell them it is absolutely O.K. to guard your negative status.
Though not a wealthy country, like Switzerland, Thailand has always carefully guarded its neutral status.
