The press, critical of what was perceived as the Conservatives ' complacency in power in the 1990s, presented much material interpreted as evidence of questionable government practices.

In 1968, he was caught out by the Tết Offensive due to complacency, and during the 1971 Operation Lam Sơn 719 and the communists ’ Easter Offensive, the I Corps in the north of the country was under the command of his confidant, Hoàng Xuân Lãm, whose incompetence led to heavy defeats until Thiệu finally replaced him with Ngô Quang Trưởng.

He believed that Gladstone had taught people to combat materialism, complacency, and authoritarianism ; Buchan later wrote to Herbert Fisher, Stair Gillon, and Gilbert Murray that he was " becoming a Gladstonian Liberal.

The group's primary influence was Antonin Artaud, who espoused the Theatre of Cruelty, which was supposed to shock the audience out of complacency.

Ironically, Horne was using the term to criticise the complacency of Australian society in the early 1960s.

He was one of the principal leaders of the fight for the Reform Act 1832, earning the nickname Finality Jack from his complacency pronouncing the Act a final measure.

The title story of the collection, Goodbye, Columbus, was an irreverent look at the life of middle-class Jewish Americans, satirizing, according to one reviewer, their " complacency, parochialism, and materialism ".

Of course the story goes that it was all part of Kuranosuke's plan to lull Kira into complacency.

For Artaud, this was a cruel, yet necessary act upon the spectator designed to shock them out of their complacency:

They had successfully managed to drive a wedge between France and Spain, and demonstrated the power of the Royal Navy-although it was suggested by critics that this gave Lord North a level of complacency and an incorrect belief that the European powers would not interfere in British colonial affairs.

Rediffusion had believed that their contract renewal was a ' formality ' and their application reflected this complacency: The company had treated the ITA high-handedly in interviews.

Yet another possible factor was the incumbent's complacency: its original application was a mere 16-pages long.

Prior to January 2010, the size in which hail in a severe thunderstorm would be considered severe was ¾ of an inch ; public complacency due to overly frequent issuances of severe thunderstorm warnings and recent studies stating that hail does not produce damage until it reaches one inch in diameter caused the upgrade.

A sense of complacency fell upon those in charge of developing tanks in the U. S. Army because the M4 Sherman in 1942 was considered by the Americans to be superior to the most common German tanks: the Panzer III and early models of the Panzer IV.

" Twachtman's temperament -- by turns gregarious and introspective, restless and serene -- was a major factor in preventing the Cos Cob art colony from becoming a backwater of nostalgic complacency.

Although Third Man Upholstery never lacked business, White claims that it was unprofitable, because of his complacency about money and his business practices that were perceived as unprofessional, including making bills out in crayon and writing poetry inside the furniture.

There was complacency on the part of Portland railroad interests, and the Bangor lumber interests oppose the continental economic integration envisaged by the treaty.

The setback to Australia, and to Ponting as Australian captain, of the 2005 Ashes defeat, was to prove a strong motivation for the Australian camp to improve their standards and overcome any complacency that may have arisen from Australia's being the world's premier cricketing nation for a decade.

The promises of a new world order based on the forswearing of military use of force was viewed partially as a threat, which might " lure the West toward complacency " and " woo Western Europe into neutered neutralism.

" This phrase was used repeatedly by Kennedy during the 1960 presidential campaign to criticize the Republicans for what he saw as complacency in regard to supposed Soviet ICBM superiority.

This later success however was not followed up and the complacency of both forces led to stagnation of the front.

Later, after Kate is abducted she is jolted out of her complacency, and with the aid of software written by " Sandy " she is able to penetrate the government smokescreen.

His brave efforts to present his case, passionate, deeply pondered, for the concession of fundamental liberties-no taxation without consent, independent judges, trial by jury, along with the recognition of the American Continental Congress-foundered on arrogance and complacency of his peers.

::* complacency brought about by the very existence of the institutions which drove the revival ;

( Although Singapore's strict and no-nonsense government system matches the " strict and authoritarian " system that Montesquieu cited as being necessary for a country in warmer areas to succeed by counteracting the environmental complacency of the tropics with human-induced strictures.

Macaulay's approach has been criticised by later historians for its one-sidedness and its complacency.

In November 2011, U. S. Nuclear Regulatory Commissioner Gregory Jaczko warned power companies against complacency and said the agency must " push ahead with new rules prompted by a nuclear crisis in Japan while also resolving long-running issues involving fire protection and a new analysis of earthquake risks ".

A good programmer will not be lulled into complacency by such reasoning, he will be wise to look carefully at the critical code ; but only after that code has been identified " — Donald Knuth

It is in contrast to the contented feeling of self-satisfaction of complacency, driven by the illusion of the " ego ".

Kreisky turned 70 in 1981, and by this time the voters had become increasingly uncomfortable they saw as his complacency and preoccupation with international issues.

A minor group of impatient young Irish members, the genuine " Home-Rulers " distanced themselves from Butt ’ s lack of assertiveness and led by Charles Stewart Parnell, Joseph Biggar, John O ' Connor Power, Edmund Dwyer Gray, Frank Hugh O ' Donnell and John Dillon, some of whom had close connections with the Fenian movement, adopted the method of parliamentary " obstructionism " during 1876-77, to snap Westminster out of its complacency towards Ireland by proposing amendments to almost every bill and making lengthy overnight speeches.

Like the group's appearance, their lyrical subject matter reacted against the then dominant New Wave scene, and the perceived complacency that many first wave punk bands, including The Clash and The Damned seemed to have fallen into by the early 1980s.

Spinola, however, failed to take advantage of the new situation, lulled into complacency by Maurice's unceasing peace-feelers.

:" What is needed is for White South Africans to shake themselves out of their complacency, a complacency intensified by the present economic boom built upon racial discrimination.

In recent interviews, Walker has suggested that by his third solo LP, a self-indulgent complacency had crept into his choice of material.

Of Elgar's music he wrote, " it reflects the complacency and stodginess of the era of the antimacassar and pork-pie bonnets ; it is affected by the poor taste and the swollen orchestral manner of the post-romantics ".

Shor states that students have previously been lulled into a sense of complacency by the circumstances of everyday life and through the processes of the classroom, they can begin to envision and strive for something different for themselves.

Overall, though, the Muslim commentators demonstrate a remarkable degree of complacency in the face of naskh's more theologically disturbing implications, supremely confident ( as expressed in the following gloss on a famous Ā ' isha hadith ) that whatever the mechanisms used to expurgate or cancel the Divine revelation, what has ultimately come down to us is exactly what Allah intended mankind to have:

That theme cuts through hypocrisies, complacency and double-talk.

therefore we need guardians to demonstrate against the ghastly stupidity of nuclear weapons and jolt the people out of their complacency ''.

All this near tragedy, which to us borders on comedy, enables us to tell the story over and over again, always warming ourselves with a glow of complacency.

On the other hand, he claims that there are casualties of progress whose influence is underestimated and that, from such stolid adherence to natural science and intelligence, arises arrogance and complacency.

This brought a certain sense of complacency amongst some pension actuarial consultants and regulators, making it seem reasonable to use optimistic economic assumptions to calculate the present value of future pension liabilities.

The CAB earned a reputation for bureaucratic complacency ; airlines were subject to lengthy delays when applying for new routes or fare changes, which were not often approved.

It is often implied as well that Wiggum genuinely wants to do good with his job, but a mix of complacency, various difficulties with being a cop, and his own limitations have made him weary of his duties.

Whatever the case may be, the defeat encouraged the Crusaders and inspired a notion of deliverance from the East, and it is possible Otto recorded Hugh's confused report to prevent complacency in the Crusade's European backers ; according to his account no help could be expected from a powerful Eastern king.

This is the story of the proverbial outsider who blows into town and subsequently manages to upturn complacency, shake convention, disrupt, rearrange lives and — reset the fates of all those with whom he comes into contact.

The investigation strongly criticized Babcock and Wilcox, Met Ed, GPU, and the NRC for lapses in quality assurance and maintenance, inadequate operator training, lack of communication of important safety information, poor management, and complacency, but avoided drawing conclusions about the future of the nuclear industry.

This period of complacency ended with the 1957 USSR Championship, where out of 21 games played, Petrosian won seven, lost four, and drew the remaining 10.

In the poem, Robert I's character is a hero of the chivalric type common in contemporary romance, Freedom is a " noble thing " to be sought and won at all costs, and the opponents of such freedom are shown in the dark colours which history and poetic propriety require, but there is none of the complacency of the merely provincial habit of mind.

Talbot Mundy a contemporary of Kipling makes use of the term in " King of the Khyber Rifles " ( p. 265 ) to describe a cuckold, " And what kind of man must Rewa Gunga be who could lightly let go all the prejudices of the East and submit to what only the West has endured hitherto with any complacency -- a " tertium quid "?

Besides telling a yarn of tense suspense, the picture is concerned with a social message on civic complacency.

The ideological function of the mass media is not to create a ' panic ' - which is precisely what the post-war elite do not want-but a combination of concern and complacency in an endless circular process with no political momentum.