However, despite Radha's struggle against feudal oppression depicted in the film, her action of stopping the rebellious Birju and upholding status quo the feudal and patriarchal order is seen as "regressive" by various authors.
It didn't feel like they were going to uphold the status quo".
Beholden to the small wealthy class that controlled banking and industry, the rulers opted to uphold the status quo.
"This victory has cemented the gallery's mission to uphold its status as an activist space dedicated to nurturing freedom of creative expression in South Africa.
Dispassionate geopolitical calculations, blatant economic self-interest and justifiable concerns about international security fed the instinctive wish of the great powers to uphold the status quo.
For months, the Portnoys fought back, winning a series of legal victories that suggested they might be able to uphold the status quo.
The really fascinating thing about that coronation, watched by so many on their newly bought TVs, was its sheer finesse and professionalism, exploiting the skills of photography, dress design and staging to uphold the status quo of monarchy.
In South Dakota, which received $3.2 billion in farm subsidies over the last five years and stands to gain an even larger amount in the coming decade, candidates of both parties swore to uphold the status quo.
Directing his policy primarily toward maintaining close relations with France and Great Britain, Sazonov also eased Russia's relations with Germany (November 1910) and worked to uphold the status quo in the Balkans.
"You could also make a point it is the duty of a new chairman of the board [Charles Gurassa] to come in and look at options, new chairmen don't usually come in to uphold the status quo, especially when [change] has been widely canvassed".
And the definition of "Jew" has become more stringently Orthodox since the nineteen-seventies, owing to a series of Likud compromises with theocratic parties and to rulings by Supreme Court justices who feel themselves bound to uphold the "status quo" agreement concluded between Labor Zionists and the Orthodox rabbinate when the state was founded.
