Sentence examples for complacent citizens from inspiring English sources

After the "Day of Rage" fizzled, he rewarded his complacent citizens with $130 billion in salary increases, new housing and financing for religious organizations.

Each week the paper's police blotter is filled with descriptions of thieves running off with iPhones grabbed from complacent citizens who are often in the midst of using them.

In a speech in Vancouver after he took his seat in the Lords, he said Canada was a one-party state doomed to mediocrity by leftwing policies and complacent citizens.

In the real world, however, there is little evidence that happiness creates complacent citizens; in fact, studies show that happy people are more likely than alienated people to get politically involved, not less.

And the activism of the Obama campaign that we're seeing here in Denver might be ephemeral, the heat of the electoral moment inspiring normally complacent citizens.

In the Peter Parnell play "QED," the smell was still in the air when Alan Alda, playing Richard Feynman, the physicist and Manhattan Project veteran, exclaimed about his apparently complacent fellow citizens, "Don't they all realize everything's going to be destroyed very soon?" And all the air went out of Lincoln Center's Vivian Beaumont Theater.

Business booms but fatter wallets make citizens complacent and swell the Al Saud family's status.

It's a fact that hundreds of thousands of citizens were complacent because of polls projecting an easy victory for Clinton.

Fake news, with its many loyal foot soldiers, is difficult to fight and eliminate because well-meaning citizens are complacent in its propagation – and academia is not immune from its influences.

Which is not to say that the U.S. should be complacent about the philanthropic freedom citizens enjoy.

Otherwise good citizens were "indifferent, or complacent".