Sentence examples for grew arrogant from inspiring English sources

The president and his staff grew arrogant and certain that they could spin anything.

Mr. Rogowski grew arrogant, alienating himself from his skateboard buddies, falling into trouble with the law.

Easy to say that managers grew arrogant and lazy.

And let's not forget that utterance from a Baldwin Locomotive Co. executive, just before diesel-electrics swept over the business: "They'll never replace the steam locomotive". Easy to say that managers grew arrogant and lazy.

Before long, Darnley grew arrogant.

"When companies are good at breeding their own talent, they grow arrogant," he says.

By the early 1990s, even moderate House Republicans felt that the ruling Democrats had grown arrogant and corrupt.

Unchallenged, companies have grown arrogant and self-serving, and the market has become an end rather than a means.

They may yet grow arrogant, but for now they have settled into the more quotidian realities of day-to-day governing.

Second, businesspeople suspect Labour has grown arrogant in power and no longer feels obliged to keep its side of the bargain struck a decade ago, especially with that friend of the rich, Tony Blair, out of the picture.

One is a string of scandals, including several cases of nepotism, that have made the Social Democrats seem a party that has grown arrogant and too accustomed to the perks of government.