Sentence examples for encouraged complacency from inspiring English sources

Elite civilians encouraged complacency.

It has encouraged complacency, waste and at worst corruption.

The tigers' faster-than-expected rebound from their 1997-98 financrisisrisis encouraged complacency and delayed necessary reforms, which left them more vulnerable to the global downturns in 2001 and now.

"The [good years] encouraged complacency, and there was an abundance of lower-quality work," noted Bejerano, who sees in the current economic turmoil opportunity for a clear-out of the dead wood clogging up the sector.

And so many years of unmitigated success inevitably encouraged complacency, so that governments were slow to act when the first signs of trouble emerged.All this makes East Asia's crisis another (and particularly serious) example of the financial instability which often afflicts economies in the early stages of development.

Unfortunately, this encouraged complacency; governments concluded that further economic reforms could wait.

This is not to encourage complacency.

But that shouldn't encourage complacency.

Yet the risk of playing up good news, of course, is that it may encourage complacency.

Hunt argued that the failure to expose and publicise examples of poor care encourages complacency.

A slump in American demand would reduce both interest rates and oil prices.Perhaps the biggest risk is that the boom may encourage complacency and reform fatigue.