Sentence examples for was once content from inspiring English sources

No matter that Mr Clegg was once content with the first draft, his party refused to wear it.

Microsoft was once content to stick to software, ceding processors to companies like Intel and the PCs themselves to an array of other manufacturers.

He was once content to let his songs into the world backed by the kind of synthesisers and drum machines that Stock, Aitken and Waterman would have eschewed as a bit too Woolworths for their own good, as if the words were the only thing that really mattered to him.

For Mr. Sondheim's shows have induced a coterie of fans and critics to bring higher expectations and an analytical sensibility to a form that was once content to be a brash feel-good compendium of catchy tunes and peppy dances attached to love stories with happy endings.

On the Democratic side of the aisle, Florida's Alan Grayson — a guy who was once content just to be a strong liberal, but who seems to have made a deliberate decision to be just plain noxious recently — is coming back to the House, after he lost in 2010.

Scientists were once content just to try to rid us of fatal diseases.

But the riot has now engulfed the boys who were once content to play with chemistry sets in the basement.

The difficulty is once content has been available for free the whole generation expects things for free and it's difficult to reverse that.

Consumers who were once content to sit back and absorb what was beamed at them are demanding more control over how and when they consume movies, television, newspapers and music.

Not only are more high school graduates in New Jersey going to college these days, but while students were once content to head home after class each afternoon, today they are looking for college life.

Companies that were once content to fight in grocery-store aisles and on television commercials are now choosing a different route — filing lawsuits and other formal grievances challenging their competitors' claims.