hubris

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• He sees that apathy and hubris activated Flint’s public health crisis in 2014 and fuel it to this day.

• It takes a lot of hubris to risk your solvency on the assumption rates stay unusually low forever.

• In an agency long known for its competence, hubris became the nemesis that could not be overcome.

• I maintained that hubris until October of 2017, when my daughter was born.

• Heading off hubris was one of the commission’s main concerns, Lifton said.

• He won re-election twice as governor of New York, and had the hubris to run for a fourth term before being defeated in 1994.

• What were his weaknesses as a military commander: was it hubris?

• The hubris of that position did so much to create and compound these problems.

• Can Clinton help find the elusive middle ground in American foreign policy between the hubris of Bush and the reluctance of Obama?

• Downes disparages this as hubris, “man too big for his boots.”

• Or was even as noble a mind as his not proof against the overweening hubris to which a despotic genius has so often succumbed?

• Every year He waxes too strong and commits "Hubris," and such sin has its proper punishment.