Still, concerns about toxic emissions rallied Thompson and a small group of other local people -- most of them sick, later joined by dozens of other citizens complaining of similar ailments -- to force complacent regulators to clean up their air.
While I respect Hillary Clinton, I agree with Bernie Sanders on far more, and I'm glad he's forced a complacent Democratic Party to introspect.
The European health insurance card, the abolition of phone roaming charges, food labelling, equal pay for men and women, forcing a complacent UK government to take action on air quality in London – the political union has been a force for good in many different areas for the UK.
The longer sex workers are forced to be complacent in our treatment and our silence, the sooner our rights are forgotten.
Its success in that sphere may have made it complacent in other markets like fixed-price sales, where Amazon has been forced to concentrate.
Unions that had grown complacent are finding a source of fiery energy in the defensive battles they've been forced to wage.
It's not a bad thing that the threat of suicide bombers has forced us to update and improve our security measures to detect and speedily derail violent conspiracies; the end of the Cold War had made us complacent.
Surely, Elle is going to turn out to be a demanding little madam, or even just a normal girl, whose demands – reasonable or otherwise – are going to break into Johnny's complacent world and force him to straighten up and fly right?
Eventually, almost everyone enjoys the journey, even though it forces a diner out of a cozy, complacent restaurant mode.
