status in quo

Such was the status in quo on this morning, and with it the Dean had for some time been forced to rest content.

Such was the status in quo on this morning, and with it the Dean had for some time been obliged to rest content.

Action in such a sphere would be hopelessly jerky; with Zeno's flying arrow it would just always rest in statu quo, though its status in quo might have an indefinite series of positions.

If in addressing his audience from the status in quo, to which the Ku-Klux troubles were referred in their origin and bloody career, forcible truths are given their due emphasis, he begs to assure the public that his utterances are no less strongly inflected from a standpoint of contrasted locality and habits of political thought.

But as to proving the case against me, Daniel was at liberty to experiment with the status in quo.