Sentence examples for from its complacent from inspiring English sources

Birt was marked as the outsider who could shake it up and reform it, drag it forth from its complacent ways.

Its dramatic grille aside, the A6 takes its complacent styling cues from the latest A8 flagship.

Shame prevents us from being complacent; it urges us toward self-critique.

THE rest of the world may gasp in awe at China's surging economy and cower somewhat in face of its growing might, but its own leaders seem far from complacent.

It keeps solvers from getting complacent.

It would take a genius like Bob Fosse to revitalize the form, but, in the meantime, serious theatregoers and producers should listen to the humor of "The Wire: The Musical," and learn something from it about how complacent we've become when it comes to musical theatre.

I wish to focus on these two pillars alone, for these two pillars will move us from knowers to learners, from complacent to curious.

In fact, some regulatory competition is useful, because it should stop regulators from growing complacent or overweening.

"Some cuts on me, some cuts on her — it kept the band from getting complacent," he said.

Estimates for those who died range from 100 to 800, though Donald Rumsfeld, the defence secretary, insists the latter may be too high.When American Airlines flight 77 tore a gaping hole in one of the largest office buildings in the world, it dragged the capital from the complacent calm of a sunny September morning into an eerie world of destruction, tension and terror.

It was a gift not from a complacent old world to a nascent new one but from a newborn republic to one that, after its civil war, was firm and coherent.