Sentence examples for longer rest on from inspiring English sources

But as competition for globe-trotting students grows worldwide, British universities can no longer rest on their laurels at home.

"I think the big four banks have now realised they can no longer rest on their laurels.

However, our reason for tree planting should no longer rest on the belief that greenhouse gas emissions will cause catastrophic global warming.

That trend was partly by necessity as the post-PC era has begun in earnest and Microsoft can no longer rest on its software licensing laurels.

A new culture of physically and chemically instructed in vitro biology ensued that in large parts did no longer rest on the presence of intact organisms in a particular experimental system (Rheinberger 1997; Landecker 2007).

On Tuesday, the Federal Emergency Management Agency released a new policy guide stating that eligibility for federal disaster relief will no longer rest on whether a facility is used primarily for religious purposes.

"The mosquito changed its behavior," he said, "and no longer rests on walls that are treated with insecticide.

On this account, membership of a nation of citizens no longer rests on an appeal to a shared language or a common ethical and cultural origin but merely reflects a shared political culture based on standard liberal constitutional principles.

His complaint is that movies no longer "rested on the assumption that their function was to present some intelligible, structured image of reality — on the simplest level, to tell a story and to entertain, but, more generally, to extend the spectator's meaningful experience, to offer him a window on the real world".

According to the OECD, the ratio of house prices to rents is nearly 70% higher than its average since 1970 well above the peak it reached in the overheated market of the late 1980s.The danger is that the boom has built on itself to a point where it no longer rests on firm foundations.

No longer resting on premises, those truths are self-evidently recognized as true whenever I attend to them.