quo English

Meaning quo meaning

What does quo mean?

quo verb

— (transitive, obsolete) quoth

Examples quo examples

How do I use quo in a sentence?

Simple sentences

They're trying to preserve the status quo, not to improve.

Movie subtitles

Quo's right. You bet what you've got on the table.

Now look, Quo.

Now, wait a minute Quo. You really ain't gonna take a man's only set of teeth, are ya?

My name now Two Jaw Quo.

Two Jaw Quo.

All right, Quo!

Hey, Quo, when you're finished there, get some.

Now look Quo, this is getting to be plumb crazy. We been doing this all day.

Groot, what's Dan riding in Quo's wagon for?

Well, Quo's out gathering wood.

Fortunately, an epidemic of diphtheria restored the status quo almost immediately and even brought me a bonus in the shape of the Duchess.

Uh. Couldn't we just keep things status quo?

Ad hoc, ad loc and quid pro quo. So little time, so much to know.

Ad hoc, ad loc and quid pro quo, so little time, so much to know.

But today, world peace is enforced by our unit, the Guardians, for the United Nations, but I believe you may be unhappy with the status quo.

I am pleased to state, in status quo.

Quo's right.

Now, look, Quo. Them teeth is worth a heap a lot more than your silver dollar.

Quo's out gathering wood. Sent him out before I thought about eating.

Couldn't we just keep things status quo?

From the Appian Way she'll make a pilgrimage here. What can she do, the Quo Vadis?

Forward to the sweet tranquility of the status quo.

Bones. Bones, the normal development of this planet was a status quo between the hill people and the villagers.

Those for the status quo want revenge. and it's believed they'll take advantage of this opportunity.

We must maintain the status quo.

Bones, the normal development of this planet was a status quo between the hill people and the villagers.

Blessed is just about anyone with a vested interest in the status quo.

Otherwise, it becomes a status quo.

Look, sport, you're the one who changed the status quo between us, not I.

Quid pro quo, doctor.

For now, the move's no move: status quo.

Quid pro quo: you will help me, and I will give you a lift to San Antonio.

We're status quo.

This to you is status quo?

Meanwhile, I ask you to stay at your posts. and continue as if everything were status quo.

Status quo.

Everything's status quo.

News and current affairs

Of course, constitutions are not meant to protect the status quo if the status quo is rotten.

As an anti-status quo power, Iran is not pursuing nuclear capabilities in order to destroy Israel, but to gain prestige and influence in a hostile environment and as a shield for its challenge to the regional order.

Its involvement in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict will likely be limited to maintaining the status quo rather than seeking a comprehensive settlement.

Thus, uniting the forces of status quo conservatism, even if some of those conservatives are Christian, is the only viable diplomatic strategy open to Saudi Arabia.

Usually, such a vision provides a scenario for the future that is meant to encourage change, though it may also portray the status quo - or the past - as attractive, thereby encouraging resistance to change.

The Arab public, however, will no longer accept the status quo.

The world should not accept the status quo.

In the quid pro quo that followed, Qaddafi agreed to eliminate his nascent nuclear program in exchange for an end to pariah status.

As long as the status quo persists, with strong global growth and stunning macroeconomic stability, the US can continue to borrow and run trade deficits without immediate consequence.

The status quo would be reinforced further by the principle that no country may increase its security to the detriment of another.

In a state of war, people get used to the status quo and cannot imagine anything else.

Even in places like Venezuela, with both huge oil reserves and a traditional-minded nationalist government, the status quo allowing for foreign investment in energy resources has survived nearly eight years of President Hugo Chavez.

Ansari was accompanied by Commerce Minister Nirmala Sitharaman, who, during her stay, signed an agreement allowing China - without any quid pro quo - to establish industrial parks in India.

A recent study by Andy Haldane and others at the Bank of England casts doubt on the prospect of a return to the status quo ante.

China prefers an imperfect status quo to such alternatives.

In a particularly poignant story, a young man convinces his partner to have an abortion, viewing their unborn child as a hindrance to the status quo.

At best, the agreement maintains the current status quo, and in some respects even allows for further development of Iran's nuclear program.

MADRID - Before his appointment as EU Commission President, Jean-Claude Juncker was pilloried as an old-school federalist who would do little to alter the status quo.

Of course, a grave question arises about the now-ruling Supreme Council of the Military High Command in Egypt: How can the enforcers of the status quo become the agents of change?

Political leaders who dissented from the status quo could no longer easily be jailed on communism-related charges.

Such a strategy implies, first of all, a solid partnership with China, not because it is evolving in the direction of democracy, but because it is a status-quo power.

Given that such a move would imply that China's claim to the islands may have some legitimacy, Abe's possible concession on this point is no trivial matter; it could even mean that he will agree with China to restore the status quo ante.

Attempts to disturb Asia's territorial status quo are an invitation to endemic conflict - a concern that led Asian states to welcome the US and Russia to their annual East Asian Summit.

Through its overt refusal to accept Asia's territorial status quo, China only highlights the futility of political negotiations.

With the status quo it will be hard for the euro to survive.

So the dividing line in Pakistan is not between liberals and extremists, but between those who support the status quo and those who oppose it.

Parties that call themselves democratic are not only going along with Musharraf in this fraudulent election, but are also helping to restore the status quo.