Sentence examples for stands quo from inspiring English sources

The German Embassy is an imposing sight, and hidden within its huge, maze-like gardens, stands "Quo Vadis" (walk 100m past the embassy, left into a children's playground and peer through the railings).

Second, Feldman granted the oil companies a preliminary injunction (in other words, he found that, until further review, the status quo stands and the moratorium cannot be enforced).

The self-preservation act of leaving is curdled by a sense of desertion for letting the status quo stand.

"At this point, there really should be no doubt where the American people stand: the status quo is not acceptable, but neither are any of the proposals we've seen from the White House or Democrats in Congress," Senator Mitch McConnell of Kentucky, the Republican leader, said in a statement, adding: "It should be clear by now that the problem isn't the sales pitch.

But it is doubtful that supporters of the act will rejoice now that Romney is solely focused on letting the status quo stand.

He once had a reputation for Euroscepticism, having said he would vote to leave the EU as it stands because the status quo is "simply unacceptable".

He began to be understood in terms of what Milan Kundera called, in another meditation on the culture of small nations, "antimodern modernism" — a personal style that stands outside the status quo of perpetual progress.

Take it from one of many fed-up Californians: the President should act as though he is what stands between the status quo and the pitchforks.

In The Spirit of Compromise, Gutmann and Thompson point out that on issues ranging from health care to taxes to the debt ceiling the dangerous new normal of the 21 century "biases the political process in favor of the status quo and stands in the way of desirable change".

However hard the effort to overthrow it, the status quo cannot stand.

On Thursday, it was Mr. Romney who called for "big change," of the small-government variety, a dozen times, saying that Mr. Obama stood for "the status quo path".