status quo

Converse of subject

• engender: The attitude engendered by the status quo is revealed in the opinions of existing landowning interests referred to above.

Converse of object

• maintain: To maintain the status quo here was very important.
• challenge: This means that there are small numbers of men actually challenging the feminist status quo.
• defend: But time and again they unite to defend the status quo and to seek to limit progressive reform.
• upset: But err on the side of caution here as the nutty runners may upset the status quo and go mad.

Adjective modifier

• current: There is no desire to change the current status quo.
• constitutional: Peel's period as Irish Secretary saw him supporting the constitutional status quo.
• political: Student movements have always risen up against the religious and political status quo.
• economic: After all the current political system is simply a way of keep the current economic status quo and the inequalities of capitalism.
• social: For them the movement is giving voice to a social discontent with the social status quo.
• new: The new status quo has received considerable support from low inflation which has helped to moderate wage claims.

Modifies a noun

• ante: We do not see any prospect of a return to the status quo ante.