Sentence examples for shift the status from inspiring English sources

This week, we're bringing you portraits of young people who are determined to shift the status quo.

In other words, it's hard to shift the status quo in an established industry dominated by big corporations.

It is Corbyn who has to face the age-old radical's dilemma: this business of whether it is best to shift the status quo by fighting it from the outside, or working to change it from the inside and risk alienating ardent supporters who fear the party's soul has suddenly been made available on eBay.

Attracting 100,000 signatures to a letter on the subject of bank capital suggests that at least some members of Congress are trying to shift the status quo.

The U.S. Catholic church has actively fought against reforming the statute of limitations in several states, which undermines the work survivors and advocates have done to shift the status quo. .

The Acid Corbynism talk was led by academic Jeremy Gilbert, it explored how collective, so-called "consciousness-raising" activities – both spiritualist, like yoga and meditation, as well as cultural, like clubs and festivals – might empower people out of political inertia: to feel as if, by working together, we've got the power to shift the status quo.

Haven't we seen massive information dumps from WikiLeaks and Edward Snowden come and go without shifting the status quo?

The finding shifted the status of the case from that of a missing person to that of a death, but the police said they would not know the cause until an autopsy was performed.

The report says that no single company or organisation can alone take on the job of reforming the system because "the transaction costs of shifting the status quo are extremely high".

This control gives you the power to affirm or deny the right to private property, thereby shifting the status to you owning your commodities rather than your commodities owning you.

Recreational marijuana use has been widely debated in Canada since the 1960s, when marijuana's association with 'hippie' counterculture shifted the status of the drug to a symbol of non-conformity for white, middle-class youth (Boyd 2009, Courtwright 2001).