Sentence examples for Complacent public from inspiring English sources

Last week he proudly hosted the Bush-Putin summit in Bratislava.In the Czech Republic, the idealism of the early 1990s has collapsed into cronyism and cynicism, thanks to selfish politicians and a complacent public.

By training and temperament, Alexander is well suited to attack the first problem: shaking up a complacent public and spurring parents to take responsibility for improving their children's schools.

The report released today by the defence and security thinktank RUSI paints a picture of prison radicalisation on a mass scale, a "new wave" of home-grown terrorism and a dangerously complacent public.

Activists, the heirs to corporate raiders of the 1980s, say they provide market discipline to complacent public companies resistant to change.

Only then can colleges be the conscience of society as they should, providing an indispensable idealistic balance to our pragmatic politicians and frequently complacent public in this still-immature democracy of ours.

An overwhelming and habitually complacent public rallied into a surge of protest and anger about rape, the likes of which I had not seen in all my years of legal activism.

Child-labor opponents in the early 20th century drew attention to child labor at Christmastime to stir a complacent American public.

"Since the IT problems at TSB began, Paul Pester set the tone for TSB's complacent and misleading public communications.

Younger said he was not complacent about the public's view of MI6, but he believed it had recovered the trust of the British people.

"Far from being complacent, the American public is in many ways more alarmed than political scientists are about the health of U.S. democracy," the report says.

We should be concerned about these figures – they tell us of a picture of neglect – by government with its active impoverishment of poorer parts of our society and with its complacent neglect of public health nutrition.