Sentence examples for complacent if from inspiring English sources

In our schools, how can we be complacent if French and German children are achieving higher standards than ours?

The government is being complacent if it thinks it can grandstand against onshore wind without worrying other market players.

Policymakers are too complacent if they think inequalities will simply disappear with new generations of ethnic minorities.

That would put them at the risk of becoming complacent, if they confused their past good fortune with a genuinely insurmountable advantage.

You may feel safe or complacent if you live in a quiet neighborhood with no reported burglaries, but it's possible that thieves simply haven't discovered your area yet.

And in the third sector, sometimes too much of a complacent, if not arrogant "we are best simply because we are the third sector" approach.

The consensus estimates, including HSBC's call, could be considered "complacent," and "if the February snowstorms prove to have the same impact of the largest storms in the past," Wang concluded," history suggests the risk of major downside surprise remains high".

"I bet if you'd asked them if they were complacent in August, they wouldn't have said it.

Because I think good lefties are not complacent or, if they were, they would try to get rid of it.

Rereading would be a dull and complacent business if it always resulted in a simple confirmation of what you had previously thought.

At another, the candidate, who usually celebrates Americans' can-do spirit, observed that "a lot of people feel extraordinarily complacent, as if this will always have to be like this".