Sentence examples for present attitudes from inspiring English sources

To control history by rewriting the past subtly influences present attitudes too: every dictator knows that.

Unless we change both our current policies and our present attitudes, failure is inevitable.

Some of the changes I have made do not look at all likely on the basis of our past behaviour as a nation and our present attitudes.

She traces the birth of modern eating habits to the Industrial Revolution, examines past and present attitudes toward snacking, and assesses the current state of the American meal and efforts to reform it.

She traces the birth of modern eating habits to the Industrial Revolution, examines past and present attitudes toward snacking, and assesses the current state of the American meal and efforts to reform it. R.A. "John Updike: The Collected Stories," edited by Christopher Carduff (Library of America), out September 12th.

The naïve agent assumes that any path through the decision tree is possible, and so sets off on whichever path is optimal, given his/her present attitudes.

I can forgive anything if they do that, but the players' present attitude is no good to me at all".

Mr. Lewis this afternoon insisted the United Automobile Workers would maintain its present attitude, refusing to evacuate the Flint plants and also opposing a referendum.

Mr. Long, who won an Emmy for "Cheers," compared the present attitude about branded entertainment with what happened when the "Cheers" writers once "wanted Norm and Cliff to be eating Cheetos" for the purposes of a punch line.

He now viewed his past self as a "booby-trapped idealist", his present attitude to war being quite different: "The only effective answer that a poet can make to barbarism is poetry, for the only answer to death is the life of the spirit".

Variety pointed out at the time, "Under the present attitude, any routine except tap dancing is eligible for the tag 'lewd entertainment.'".