Sentence examples for rule complacent from inspiring English sources

The cast of characters are equally inclusive, with a cross-section of players: fiery colonials bent upon righting the wrongs suffered under English rule, complacent Loyalists anxious to preserve their status and material well-being, English soldiers either merely doing their professional duty or cruelly enjoying the subjugation of the Colonials, neutral Quakers unwilling to formally take sides.

They are continuing to be hit in the urban north by a public that is sick of Labour's complacent "born to rule" attitude.

In an extract of the piece given exclusively to the Guardian, Vaughan Gething writes: Rodney Berman's verdict on six years of Liberal Democrat rule in Cardiff was as complacent as it was inaccurate.

This is what dinner conversation with good people sounds like in a society whose politicians, years ago, became complacent about the rule of law, where they sold themselves cheap to the highest bidders and where political factions became so polarized and consumed with hatred of each other that they would not let any law, any norm, constrain their behavior.

Are sheep easier to rule over if they are complacent?

What the New Citizens Movement advocates is for each and every Chinese national to act and behave as a citizen, to accept our roles as citizens and masters of our country—and not to act as feudal subjects, remain complacent, accept mob rule or a position as an underclass.

Both parties grew stodgy and complacent in their long years of coalition rule.

As a rule, when this happens, it is too late: you are already complacent, and your miraculous performance is over.

They also seem largely complacent about the erosion of their civil liberties under his rule.

He may be the exception to the rule at Test level but he reckons even the best players become less weary and/or complacent if they are axed occasionally.

We should be evaluating ways of modifying old outdated rules which we may perceive to be the best or that we have become complacent about changing.