Word: quos
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...There is no political reason for interference. (a) The United States has refused to assume the protectorate alone, or to join with England and Germany in one.- Samoan Affairs, p. 31. (b) The three powers interested in Samoa have agreed not to change the status quo without general (consent.- Samoan Affairs, pp. 31, 35. (c) There can therefore be no question of a German protectorate without the consent of England and America...
...club going. Though there are half a hundred reasons for desiring the club, no one of them is sufficiently important to become the one prominent motive for it, and as they all, as it were, pull different ways the reasons neutralize each other and matters remain in statu quo...
...conference committee has again met in New York with delegates present only from Harvard, Princeton, Wesleyan and Columbia, and after duly considering the hopeless situation of affairs has decided to leave the whole matter in statu quo, from which desperate strait each faculty is at liberty to rescue it as shall seem best...
Professor in international law (after a long and labored attempt to explain "legitimate consideration"): And now, sir! perhaps you will agree with me when I sum it up in the phrase quid pro quo. Student, desperately. Yes sir! I was of the opinion it was something of that nature...