Sentence examples for often complacent from inspiring English sources

Incumbents are often complacent, slow to recognise the threat that their inferior competitors pose.

Its lean, customer-focused management contrasts sharply with the often complacent governance and bloated costs at existing private schools.

His argument, in essence, is that the most famous chateaux of Bordeaux, based mainly on the left bank of the Gironde river, are often complacent and snobbish traditionalists who trade off their names.

My former teacher Andrew Morgan, who has died aged 88, was ever ready to challenge the often complacent assumptions among his students with a combination of humour, gentleness and firmness.

In its February issue, the Harvard Business Review (no less) said that "an arts degree is now perhaps the hottest credential in the world of business", with corporate recruiters trawling places such as the Rhode Island School of Design".Managers not MBAs" throws a stone into the often complacent world of management education.

Managers too often become complacent about longtime employees and don't consider the possibility that someone may be blackmailed or coerced into helping terrorists.

Hungarians have "great technical ability", he says, but can often be complacent, harking back to the imperial Austro-Hungarian era and "thinking the world owes them a living".

Dr. Leo Heitlinger, a pediatric gastroenterologist at St . Lukes Hospital in Bethlehem, Pa., said doctors can often be complacent about drugs that were never approved by the F.D.A. for children.

In the words of another critic, "Great artists often challenge complacent truths; their trajectories cross periods of shadow and light.

So often, we become complacent and turn a blind eye to abuse (whether verbal, physical or emotional) and view it as a "family issue" that should be dealt with privately.

Kennedy's legacy is one that challenges an often cynical and complacent Washington to remember that there is room for second chances.