Sentence examples for accustomed to overlooking from inspiring English sources

Some of those who have long supported Mr. Armstrong have grown accustomed to overlooking his personal life, including his divorce, because they believe so strongly in his strengths as the face of a movement, said Howard Chalmers, a longtime nonprofit consultant who headed the Lance Armstrong Foundation from 1999 to 2001.

This is especially true if they are accustomed to overlooking or brushing off issues of inequality.

Sanitation workers tend toward gallows humor and self-deprecation; they proudly call themselves "trash hounds" and are long accustomed to being overlooked.

When we become accustomed to our surroundings, it's very easy to overlook the beauty, culture and even the foreign and sublime in the nooks and crannies right outside our front doors.

But there were signs of the dangers from above, dangers that many New Yorkers accustomed to the power failures and minor inconveniences of snowstorms tend to overlook: fallen tree limbs, cordoned off by police tape.

Bright people are accustomed to succeeding through their thinking skills, but can sometimes overlook when a different approach would be more beneficial.

When you're accustomed to seeing them on the grand green lawn of Boscobel, overlooking the postcard-perfect Hudson River Valley in Garrison, this urban setting seems wrong.

Because people are so accustomed to surfing the Internet with one of the popular browsing programs, they tend to overlook alternative ways to tap into cyberspace.

The Hay-Adams, which overlooks the White House and served as the Obama family's temporary home before the president's first inauguration, is accustomed to seeing Secret Service agents on and off duty.

She's accustomed to that.

CANADIANS are accustomed to immigrants.