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Professor Mayer is wise not to be complacent, yet the pedigree of his school's parent institution could well make Saïd a force to be reckoned with.

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Truth be told, a 16-point gap to fourth-placed Torquay means Chesterfield could stagger over the finish line in an automatic promotion spot, but manager John Sheridan isn't getting complacent just yet, which means bad news for Barnet and their new boss Martin Allen.

"Vol. 3" was Jay-Z at his apex, brash and experimental and not yet complacent.

Yet complacent because, in a swill of fat-sodden comfort eating, no one can find a way to break free.

Creagh said: "The Irish government has called in the police and fraud experts, yet complacent British ministers have not and are asleep on the job.

Click here to view Anurag Kashyap cast himself as an enfant terrible, subverting a complacent, cliched Bollywood, yet its all-encompassing, unavoidable embrace meant he and his offbeat cinema inevitably became part of it.

The Bellows conjured in the Met show comes across as a talented and ambitious yet complacent artist, earnest and hard-working but often remote, an artist who frequently failed to work from that crucial point where criticality and desperation forge ambition and skill into something indelibly personal and expandable.

"Britain's jobs crisis shows no signs of letting up, yet complacent ministers are failing to act," said shadow work and pensions secretary Liam Byrne.

Yet this complacent goblet of patriarchy is not totally without interest.

The America of 8/11 was already too bureaucratic, too constitutionally sclerotic, too fearful and yet too complacent, too damned conservative (small "c") for comfort.

"I find it enormously dissatisfactory that the agencies are utterly complacent about challenging standards, yet all agree there needs to be greater clarification and a renewal of the contract with students," he said.

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