Sentence examples for grow arrogant from inspiring English sources

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

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

The Eternal One gives the nation every opportunity and so much inspiration, rescuing the people from the straits of bondage with signs and wonders, leading them through the wilderness, pointing them toward a home and a path of seeking righteousness - only for the people to grow arrogant and forgetful, drifting from the way of justice and of covenant.

However, do not give him/her too many - either he/she may grow arrogant and perhaps expect them from you or he/she may grow suspicious and slightly withdrawn.

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

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

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.

It is one thing to say that an entire police force has grown arrogant and brutal; it is another to establish that these four officers acted unreasonably under the circumstances.

These decisions reinforced a growing public sense that Mr Koizumi whose reputation as a tough-talking maverick made him wildly popular three years ago has grown arrogant and out of touch.Despite the setback, Mr Koizumi said this week that he will not step down.

Easy to say that managers grew arrogant and lazy.