| I didn't bother turning around, instead contenting myself to glare ahead at the open ocean. |
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| What about situations where they just seem to be contenting themselves with the best of the worst? |
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| I've not been terribly fit to blog of late, contenting myself instead with low-level tasks and early nights. |
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| It's Satan working his evil will through the world, contenting us with mediocrity. |
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| Stroking her hair, Brian shifted a little to get comfortable before leaning into the corner of the sofa and contenting himself to listening to her breathing even out. |
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| How pointless it is to seek to build a relevant model while contenting oneself with the deterioration of obsolete models! |
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| This, in our judgment, they have manifestly failed to do, contenting themselves instead with deciding the case solely on the credibility of the witnesses. |
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| I hadn't taken a book in and so I was contenting myself just daydreaming. |
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| Are we to go back to doing things in a small way and contenting ourselves with the status quo? |
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| Now soldiers were refusing to go under fire, contenting themselves with passively maintaining the front. |
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| Naoise let it fly over his head, contenting himself to look around. |
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| We now understand why the Commission did not consult the trade union organisations before adopting its proposal, contenting itself with the pure formality of an online consultation. |
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| The world went with pretty much the first sort of reactor it saw deployed at scale, contenting itself with increasing its size and trying, over the years, to render it ever less in need of the attentions of the axeman. |
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| In this improved context, the Commission, the Council and Parliament must act together to make the Lisbon objectives a reality, not contenting ourselves with words and hopes, but putting them into practice. |
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| For some time now, our clientele has increased considerably and, rather than simply contenting themselves with butchers and pork butchers, they now turn to all trades in the food industry. |
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| He adored his job so much that he never bothered to forge a career, contenting himself to just keep on working for whoever asked him, often spending years in the same town. |
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| They do not typically re-analyse the data presented from scratch, contenting themselves with a sense that the authors' analysis is properly conceived. |
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| When a new war broke out between France and Austria in 1809, Alexander, despite his commitments, did not intervene in Napoleon's behalf, contenting himself with feigning a military advance. |
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| Let us deal with some real issues in this House for once and not go around contenting ourselves with some idea that we have a better widget than the people who preceded us or than the ones who preceded them. |
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