The president at the time, Fernando Henrique Cardoso, saw a chance to break their complacency.
Perhaps the PBOC wanted to shake their complacency by creating a cash squeeze.
Flip the coin and watch nonbelievers challenge believers to question their complacency in beliefs rooted in an ancient cultural past.
The Republicans are so addicted to the perks of incumbency that they are reluctant to change the status quo.To be fair, their complacency is justified on one count: the uselessness of the opposition.
Bayern, needing a win to wrap up the title, were made to pay for their complacency as they rotated their team and sat back after Thomas Müller had given them an early lead.
"What I want to know of the outside world," he said, "is, are people ever going to rise from their complacency?
Mr Murakami is badgering local asset managers, who hold many of the remaining shares and have been sitting on the fence, to shake off their complacency and vote with their wallets.
The mission was to discomfort, to upset the apple cart and to jolt everyone out of their complacency, from the politicians to the federal drug administration.
Dreher said that he now regretted the occasionally "shrill" tone of his book: "I'm truly trying to shake people out of their complacency about church, but to visit the Bruderhof is to go to a place of quiet and contemplation and kindness.
The feel-good movie has its corollary in the universe of cable television in the feel-bad documentary, the exploration of some illness, catastrophe or political horror whose primary purpose is to wrest viewers from their complacency but whose effect, invariably, is to validate their blessed fortune.
