laissez-fairein a sentence
- The country is adapting a more laissez-faire trade policy.
- I realize I should have called the French authorities, but I'm a snob and do not trust those laissez-faire French to prosecute properly.† (source)
- When it comes to wage rates, however, the company is remarkably silent and laissez-faire.† (source)
- There's no choice but laissez-faire, sink or swim.† (source)
- Four years later Van Buren had ridden to the White House on a promise to continue staying Old Hickory's course of democratic reforms and bold individualism, as well as a vow to implement a laissez faire policy toward business.† (source)
- By 1966, the warders had adopted a laissez-faire attitude: we could talk as much as we wanted as long as we worked.† (source)
- She seemed to have conditioned herself to a laissez-faire policy concerning me and my ill-disciplined class.† (source)
- Her laissez-faire approach to raising children is too much for me.
- The meat industry's allies at the USDA also seemed remarkably laissez-faire, noting that the contaminated hamburger patties had not violated any federal standards.† (source)
- She is quite unprincipled; her philosophy is carpe diem for herself and laissez faire for others.† (source)
- A laissez-faire policy is like spoiling a child by saying he'll turn out all right in the end.† (source)
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- Jurgis had not studied the books, and he would not have known how to pronounce "laissez faire"; but he had been round the world enough to know that a man has to shift for himself in it, and that if he gets the worst of it, there is nobody to listen to him holler.† (source)
- That doctrine of laissez faire which so often in our history.† (source)
- It originated in France, as "Laissez faire à Georges," during the fifteenth century, and at the start had satirical reference to the multiform activities of Cardinal Georges d'Amboise, prime minister to Louis XII.† (source)
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