Like iguanas, nodding complacently perhaps in friendship, possibly in challenge towards the hoary, pewter, slate-smashed sea.

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SAP, had their eyes off the ball, still complacently enjoying the sales windfall that preparation for the millennium had brought them.

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They are taking with both hands and a few toes while people stand complacently by arguing about how many more millionaires there are.

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Some in Northern Ireland complacently assume that the province will remain a protected political species, safe in the expectation of generous central-government support.

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It had been tough sledding at the beginning, Nunn said complacently.

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Yet to view this deal complacently would be a mistake.

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Italy, unable to reform, has made a virtue of a low-wage, low-productivity economy, with little social mobility, a choice given respectability by the preaching of a complacently anti-capitalist Church.

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With hindsight it looked complacently eager to avoid one.

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France's celebrated victory on home soil at the 1998 World Cup, achieved by a team of black, white and Arab footballers, was widely hailed as a watershed moment for multiculturalism there, but few were still talking so complacently about social integration by the time the banlieues exploded into rioting in 2005.

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French cigar traders draw a parallel with what happened to French wine making in the 1970s: despite scandals, defeats in tasting tests and competition from new wines on three continents, French growers complacently rested on their vines, convinced that they had the best soils, the best wine-making weather and the best grapes.

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