Sentence examples for guarding the status from inspiring English sources
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.
I want school board members who tell us what we can do, not those who sit by guarding the status quo, who only get agitated when they fear that someone is rocking their calm and steady boat.
They've delegated that to you". The message is, it's okay to worry, but it's important that your fears do more than guard the status quo; they should have a constructive edge.
I believe that we will witness in the not-too-distant future increasingly violent clashes between religious groups that feel secularism is hypocritically intolerant and unprincipled, and the old-style Arab elite that thinks secularism means that religion must always protect and guard the status quo.
The observers note which females are displaying oestrus behaviour, which males are present and following or guarding the female, the musth status of all males present, and whether a sexual interaction occurs.
Others noted how difficult it can be to break through the fiefs and jealousies that guard the status quo.
Throughout history it's not been the old guard, the status quo, who have been clamoring for change.
