How to use "status quo" in sentences with meaning in English and Hindi

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Example sentences for "status quo" in popular movie and book plots

  • The ones formerly in power either have to pay for their status quo or have to submit to survive:.  - Bellamira (play)
  • Even while she tries to maintain the status quo ante, her main concern is her fragile son Charles who is having a birthday.  - The Burnt Ones
  • This status quo is one of uneasy teetering between subsistence and poverty.  - Bad Land: An American Romance
  • The new status quo opens the door for new discoveries.  - Victor (1993 film)
  • Captain Jared Heath, however, disturbs the status quo one day by going out and capturing some of the enemy.  - Advance to the Rear
  • It is winter AD 79 during the five-day festival of the Saturnalia, a time when the status quo is upset.  - The Twelve Tasks of Flavia Gemina
  • He feels deeply disillusioned with the political and materialist status quo and talks pessimistically while Kelli is over for dinner.  - The Second Coming (The Sopranos)
  • In the end, dr Wily escapes, dr Light is freed, and the status quo is restored.  - Mega Man 9
  • This status quo is disrupted by the arrival of the Paris, an exploratory spacecraft of the Viagens Interplanetarias, Earth's space authority.  - Rogue Queen
  • In effect, Todos Santos has won, if only by restoring the status quo ante.  - Oath of Fealty (novel)
  • "Extremists" favour subversion and conquest of Earth, while "moderates" favour the status quo of paternalistic collaboration.  - The Game-Players of Titan
  • Mister Mind alters events in the 52 universes, creating new histories and a new status quo for each.  - 52 (comics)
  • The general status quo of the storyline, tone and atmosphere is maintained until volume 6, at which point Misaki discovers Futaba's secret.  - Futaba-kun Change!
  • His attempts to maintain the status quo result in both women taking lovers.  - The Captain's Paradise
  • He challenges the status quo and slowly introduces changes that Narayan dislikes.  - Mohabbatein
  • Yamata is arrested, and the new Japanese government accepts America's generous offer of status quo ante.  - Debt of Honor

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