Sentence examples for complacent assumptions from inspiring English sources

It is a specious salmagundi of complacent assumptions and frightening arrogance.

It upended the complacent assumptions of postwar liberalism and ushered in the rise of the radical left by corroding faith in American government and values.

Conservatives and anti-immigration groups seized on the increase, claiming it ripped apart the government's "complacent assumptions" about the numbers coming into the country.

Decades of complacent assumptions about America's unending, unquestioning adherence to the democratic model have left it vulnerable to subversion within and without.

Yet many businesses (particularly in deregulated, service, and manufacturing industries) have made complacent assumptions about the need to go global and moved full steam ahead toward failure.

My former teacher Andrew Morgan, who has died aged 88, was ever ready to challenge the often complacent assumptions among his students with a combination of humour, gentleness and firmness.

The complacent assumption in European capitals has always been that America would fill any capability gaps.

That is to say, he seeks to challenge their complacent assumption that they are Christians.

This complacent assumption was true of the postwar reconstruction, but only as a "consequence of war and of policies adopted to cope with the shocks of war".

The EU, for its part, may be shocked out of its complacent assumption that America will always be there and that spending on security is a luxury.

And given Britain's prosperity in recent decades, popular cynicism may be the product of a kind of complacent assumption that the good times would just keep rolling.