This is because agribusiness has invested billions of dollars in keeping us complacent through using their influence in the media, government, educational institutions, and environmental organizations.
We have been very complacent about energy use for a very long time".
Slocombe, who racked up 25 years' experience in the private sector before joining Westminster council, said the public sector had been complacent in its use of its buildings.
Thinking back on all the complacent conversations I used to have in Brussels, I was struck by a quotation I read this week in The Economist.
Mittelstand companies like Stührenberg's employer have not been complacent, and have used the dead time waiting for European recovery to scan the horizon for the next big innovations.
Hernán's analogy that we are complacent about seat-belt use because risks are small (1) is misleading.
Possible explanations, other than differences in populations and methods, include the specificity of the case definitions we used, which might have excluded cases that would have been positive if other, more complacent diagnostic criteria were used.
Complacent was the word used most often.
Stephens cites the complacent phrase British officials used about the "constructive ambiguity" behind the agreement, but what that really meant was that the position was misrepresented to both sides -- all too characteristically on Blair's part, his critics would say.
Success can make us complacent.
