As one of an upstart "Gang of Seven" of new Republican Congressmen, he harassed the long-entrenched, over-complacent Democratic leadership, contributing to the Republican triumph of 1994.
Despite David Cameron's best efforts not to come over as complacent, his overly smooth responses made him sound like a sloganeering salesman.
Another reform proposed by Mr Shiozaki would extend criminal charges to include accounting companies, not just employees who helped pad accounts.Even so, the FSA has fired its first warning shot over a complacent industry.
"Half my cabinet, generals, and not one of them could smell yesterday that today it is war?" In fact, Meir presided over a complacent national security establishment taken wholly by surprise by the 1973 attack.
They are complacent, over-entitled and kind of mean.
Complacent over-prescription of antibiotics by doctors, and their reckless, profligate use in livestock rearing, has provided ample opportunity for resistant strains of pathogenic bacteria to proliferate through natural selection.
Then thinking that made me worry I was being cocky or at least complacent, over-confident.
Generally, he presented an air of calm, neither complacent nor over-excited.
Nevertheless, some believe the Government is being complacent over its handling of the group.
The Philadelphia officials and priests, he said, had become "arrogant and complacent" over the years, contributing to the crises today.
Johnny Cameron, then head of RBS's investment banking division, told the regulator that he now acknowledged that the board was complacent over the risks the ABN deal entailed.
