statuses quo

Sir Julian Paunceforte will purchase a farm near Washington when he returns to this country. His chief crops will be protocols, moduses vivendi, statuses quo, etc.

1889 July 24, “From Points Far and Near. Telegraph, Cable and Mail News and Chat-by-the-Way. […]”, in The Kingston Daily Freeman, volume XVIII, number 235 (whole 5,434), Kingston, N.Y., page [3], column 3

WIDOWS GET STATUSES QUO / Each Side in Protective League Feud Asks for One and Court Finds Easy Way to End Melee if He Can Only Dig Up Enough to Go Around

1926 November 10, The Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles, Calif., part II, page 11, columns 2–3

Similarly, it takes no great historical or contemporary exposure to admit truth in the Marxist claim that religion can prop false consciences and unjust statuses quo.

1980, John Tully Carmody, Denise Lardner Carmody, “Social Justice and Liberation”, in Contemporary Catholic Theology: An Introduction, San Francisco, Calif.: Harper & Row, →ISBN, page 171

People who confuse laws or established cultural outlooks or statuses quo concerning power with the will of God are always making themselves liable to mindless hatreds.

1999, Denise Lardner Carmody, “The People of God”, in An Ideal Church: A Meditation (1999 Madeleva Lecture in Spirituality), New York, N.Y.; Mahwah, N.J.: Paulist Press, →ISBN, page 86

Richardson (1987, p. 341) has written more generally of critical researchers’ efforts to study accounting as a “legitimating institution,” ranging from the existing social, political, and economic statuses quo (Cooper, 1980) to ideology (Tinker et al., 1982).

2003, Richard K. Fleischman, Vaughan S. Radcliffe, “Divergent Streams of Accounting History: A Review and Call for Confluence”, in Richard K. Fleischman, Vaughan S. Radcliffe, Paul A. Shoemaker, editors, Doing Accounting History: Contributions to the Development of Accounting Thought (Studies in the Development of Accounting Thought; 6), Kidlington, Oxon: JAI, Elsevier Science, →ISBN, pages 16–17