Status Quo Ante

But try as they might, the public perception of Dick Cheney will not revert to status-quo-ante. ❋ Unknown (2006)

The result of the war will be a return to the status-quo-ante. ❋ Unknown (1906)

Under normal circumstances, if such disputes occur between utility suppliers and consumers, status-quo-ante terms could be briefly maintained until such time that fresh agreements were achieved. ❋ Unknown (2009)

So the Gazawis don't even have as much "stake" as, for example, Hizbullah's people did in 2006 in seeing a ceasefire that would give them a return to the status-quo-ante; ❋ Unknown (2009)

They will certainly refuse any return to a status-quo-ante in which their small strip of land would once again be completely encircled by a punitive and very damaging Israeli siege. ❋ Unknown (2009)

In such a telelogical vacuum, it seems obvious that the Bernanke-Geithner-Obama "revolution" could be little more than a rearguard action, a very tactical series of moves fundamentally aimed at restoring the status-quo-ante with a minimum of tweaks to placate "the yahoos" (i.e., you and me.) ❋ Unknown (2009)