Sentence examples for complacency through from inspiring English sources

The EU has allocated $160m in grants to ease the transition, provided Caribbean governments do not encourage complacency through price support.

I question the I.C.A. director Jill Medvedow's claim, in the show's catalogue, that Fairey pursues a "quest to challenge the status quo and disrupt our sense of complacency through his art".

In his best-known and most influential work, One-Dimensional Man: Studies in the Ideology of Advanced Industrial Society (1964), he argued that the modern capitalist "affluent" society oppresses even those who are successful within it while maintaining their complacency through the ersatz satisfactions of consumer culture.

Preaker's well-meaning boss sends her back to Wind Gap, the Missouri town where she grew up, to cover the abduction and murder of a couple of pre-teen girls, and it soon emerges that "a town that bred complacency through cable TV and a convenience store" can hold its own in the horror stakes with Chicago any day.

Through complacency and bitter experience, the scope of progress has narrowed.

Any anger should be directed at the government, which, through complacency and incompetence, has contributed to this disaster.

But politicians who should have defended the Union over the same period are guilty, through complacency or grubby motives, of abandoning the cause.

With virtually every other member of the cabinet having ruled themselves out through complacency, incompetence and hubris, Rudd was the last woman standing.

Egypt have suffered through complacency before, and they might have been undone again had Mozambique been able to match their approach play with an quality in front of goal.

It seemed to me that he was doing the one thing that no one else, in those years, had the courage to do: drill through complacency and denial to hit at the nerve of our pain and fear, to enflame us into action.

"In general, it seems that when people know about how their privacy is being invaded, they care more – and much of the current problem, particularly in the UK, is through complacency and a feeling that the 'nothing to hide' argument holds water.