Sentence examples for common complacency from inspiring English sources

But in recent years one publication has towered above the others, thanks to its willingness to question the common complacency of policymakers: the annual report of the Bank for International Settlements (BIS), the so-called "central bankers' bank".

The most common weakness was complacency.

The cost of no Europe would be enormous!" Complacency or common sense?

But, here, that picture proves to be a minor skirmish in an amazingly varied and sustained assault on the complacencies of common sense.

But, in the MOMA show, curated by Anne Umland, that picture proves to be a minor skirmish in an amazingly varied and sustained assault on the complacencies of common sense.

Then in January 1776 the publication of Thomas Paine's irreverent pamphlet Common Sense abruptly shattered this hopeful complacency and put independence on the agenda.

Americans in public service and in the private sector must remember that our success in promoting peace and prosperity is not the result of complacency, but of our common commitment to dynamic action rooted in enduring values.

But expect talk about fighting the sort of complacency demonstrated in the Commons last week by Kelvin Hopkins, the MP for Luton North, who told Cameron that he was bound to lose the next election.

Justin Welby said foreign correspondents and war reporters were a "God-given calling to inspire others to serve our common humanity" and helped challenge people's complacency that what happened elsewhere in the world "did not matter".

In a damning report this week, the Commons defence select committee accused Nato of complacency over the threat from Russia and ill-prepared to respond to an attack by its former Cold War adversary.

We then need to be better acquainted with risk taking, preparation, maturity management, complacency emerging from routine operations, and educated common sense.