And a growing economy bred complacency.

He has the romantic suspicion that happiness might breed complacency.

Perhaps, he thought, the years of being left alone by the police and FBI had bred complacency.

Experience can breed complacency and misplaced confidence, Sergeant.

In addition, economists say, the Island illustrates how years of affluence can breed complacency that leaves such problems unaddressed.

Does familiarity with strange species and distant landscapes breed contempt or complacency, rather than reverence?

The lesson is that long bull markets and prolonged expansions breed complacency.

Bill Lynch, the Dinkins campaign manager, said he was concerned that his candidate's comfortable lead in public-opinon polls would breed complacency.

This comfortable situation of ours, however, should not breed complacency.

The 50 percent figure may be breeding complacency about the extent of dental disease in children, which is still major, the Harvard researchers say.