It's our complacent insularism.

But we should not become complacent.

But as for him who is stingy and complacent.

But as for him who is stingy and complacent.

We cannot be complacent about the challenges it confronts.

That is why we cannot afford to be complacent.

It has taken away excuses from those who are complacent.

But as for him, who is stingy and self complacent,

But as for him, who is stingy and self complacent,

43. The international community cannot be complacent about the present African recovery.

We must not be complacent in our efforts to collectively tackle those challenges.

While much has been achieved in Afghanistan, particularly over the last year, we must not be complacent.

Those developments should not, however, make us complacent, as the road ahead is a long and arduous one.

We cannot afford to be complacent about terrorism and will contribute, within our resource constraints, to the war against terror.

Relative stability in today's world should not make us complacent and lead us to compromise on the need for total disarmament.

We cannot be complacent and need to work at preserving the harmony that underpins the fabric and foundations of our global society.

Do they remain complacent over Allah s punishment coming and surrounding them, or the Last Day coming suddenly upon them whilst they are unaware?

Do they remain complacent over Allah s punishment coming and surrounding them, or the Last Day coming suddenly upon them whilst they are unaware?

The significant milestones that we have attained on this matter over the years are cause for satisfaction but should not make us complacent.

A few of us who are clever enough to see that there's much more to be done than just live small, complacent lives.

Will Putin, like Stalin, unleash his own great terror, and murderously pursue supposed adversaries? Or will Nemtsov's death finally move complacent and obedient Russians to action?

Although there are fewer countries in a state of armed conflict and civil strife on the continent, we should obviously not be complacent because of what has been achieved so far.

Many international observers believe that politics simply no longer matters much in Britain, because the economy is fundamentally sound and growing at a fairly healthy pace. But this is a dangerously complacent argument.

In the current presidential election campaign, the Democratic Party is attacking Obama s Republican challenger, Mitt Romney, on the same specious grounds, with a complacent media acquiescing in the Democrats de facto India baiting.

They compete, expand, mature, and eventually, with few exceptions, fade into obscurity. The same is true of governments they, too, can lose the hunger and ambition of youth and allow themselves to become complacent.

Why the indifference? Are investors too complacent, or is their apparent lack of concern rational, given that the actual economic and financial impact of current geopolitical risks at least so far has been modest?

At the same time, I wish to remind all that we cannot become complacent but must remain vigilant and true in our efforts to ensure the collective security and well being of our people.

With regard to nuclear disarmament, while the CTBT is a historic milestone on the road to a world free of nuclear weapons, we cannot afford to be complacent about this achievement and stop our efforts here.

But Asia cannot be complacent financial systems remain fragile economies are burdened with high fiscal and current account deficits and Asia remains too heavily dependent on North American and European export markets, increasing its vulnerability to external shocks.

Mr. Taal (Gambia) said that his Government was not complacent about its record thus far and was committed to doing more to promote the advancement of rural women and fulfil its obligations under article 14 of the Convention.

So far, investors have been complacent about the risks posed by the looming budget fight. They believe that as in the past the fiscal showdown will end with a midnight compromise that avoids both default and a government shutdown.

The question is, as a building professional, as an architect, an engineer, as a developer, if you know this is going on, as we go to the sights every single week, are you complacent or complicit in the human rights violations?

That was because so many of us were complacent in the political use of cultural difference to maintain our economic and social advantage, which, in turn, led to our failure even to recognize many of the problems, thereby making them intractable.

Crisis conditions can liberate a gifted leader from the accumulated constraints of vested interests and bureaucratic inertia that normally inhibit action in the American system. Bill Clinton, caught up in the complacent 1990 s, is said to have envied Franklin Roosevelt s crisis conditions of the 1930 s.

This is the way Mexico policy has been run for decades. And, offensive as this has been to Mexican sensibilities and harmful to finding long term solutions to America s immigration dilemma these complacent arrangements have never presented so clear and present danger as they do today.

Indeed, when Japan provided relief to the countries hit by the Sumatra earthquake in 2004, which claimed 250,000 lives, it was keenest to promote an early warning system for tsunamis. But Japan s long history of earthquakes and tsunamis and now advanced forecasting technology had made people complacent.

O Consorts of the Prophet! Ye are not like any of the (other) women if ye do fear (Allah), be not too complacent of speech, lest one in whose heart is a disease should be moved with desire but speak ye a speech (that is) just.

O Consorts of the Prophet! Ye are not like any of the (other) women if ye do fear (Allah), be not too complacent of speech, lest one in whose heart is a disease should be moved with desire but speak ye a speech (that is) just.

So, while global markets arguably have been rationally complacent, financial contagion cannot be ruled out. A century ago, financial markets priced in a very low probability that a major conflict would occur, blissfully ignoring the risks that led to World War I until late in the summer of 1914.

French troops have repeatedly intervened in Chad, Gabon, Zaire, Central Africa, Togo, and Côte d Ivoire to prop up and protect complacent, corrupt, undemocratic, and incompetent leaders, remove recalcitrant ones, or curb civil unrest. In Rwanda, France has yet to live down its perceived role in enabling the 1994 genocide.

Populism can be a necessary corrective when political parties grow sclerotic, mass media become too complacent (or too close to power), and bureaucracies are unresponsive to popular needs. In a globalized world managed by bankers and technocrats, many people feel that they have no say in public affairs they feel abandoned.

CHICAGO The biggest financial nightmare looming over the world economy is the insolvency of a large international bank. Be it because of a sovereign default or because of large losses accumulated under complacent accounting rules, the insolvency of a large bank (particularly a European bank) is far from a remote possibility.

Citizens of debtor economies, who grew up complacent about economic convergence, have lost their savings and, in many cases, have run out of hope. Meanwhile, citizens of creditor countries are focused on protecting the gains made before the crisis after all, it was their savings that financed their neighbors reckless spending.

But the belief that America is the only virtuous country, the sole beacon of light in a dark and unstable world, continues to shape many Americans worldview. American intellectuals failure to challenge these ideas and to help the US population shed complacent attitudes based on ignorance perpetuates a culture of coddling the public.

Having served as the IMF s chief economist from 2001 to 2003, I am familiar with the Fund s need to walk a tightrope between building investor confidence and shaking up complacent policymakers. But it is one thing to be circumspect in the midst of a crisis it is quite another to spew nonsense.