Sentence examples for best complacent from inspiring English sources

Speaking in Bethnal Green earlier today, he said that New Labour's encouragement of the postal vote system made them "at best complacent and complicit at worst" in the scandal.

The example he gave, with supporting evidence from Conrad, was boring little Belgium and its horrendous crimes in the Congo; but there are some episodes in British history where we were at best complacent about avoidable mass killing, though they did not often involve war and the only ones that I can think of were a couple of famines and the African slave trade.

One cannot help but be struck by the stark contrast in how President Bush acted so swiftly in naming Judge John G. Roberts Jr. as his nominee for chief justice, in comparison with his at best complacent, if not callous, response to help the victims of Hurricane Katrina.

Student campaigners, of course, will object to such arguments as moral relativism at best and, worse, complacent acceptance of racial discrimination.

Alan Wolfe's review of Diane Ravitch's "Death and Life of the Great American School System" (May 16) was complacent at best, misleading at worst.

"We are doing our best to not be complacent," said Dr. Linda Detwiler, a veterinarian with the Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service at the United States Department of Agriculture.

Previous responses have been complacent at best.

"I always hope for the best, but will never be complacent about my health ever again".

Uruguay – their captain Obdulio Valera strutting around as if he owned the joint – bested their expectant and slightly complacent hosts 2-1 in what was effectively the final (although with Juan Alberto Schiaffino and Alcides Ghiggia also in their team, Uruguay were probably just the better side).

We should be evaluating ways of modifying old outdated rules which we may perceive to be the best or that we have become complacent about changing.

The very fact that he was so effortlessly part of the complacent ruling elite was his best cover.