Sample Sentences forlaissez-faire (auto-selected)
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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)
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There's no choice but laissez-faire, sink or swim.† (source)
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By 1966, the warders had adopted a laissez-faire attitude: we could talk as much as we wanted as long as we worked.† (source)
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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)
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She seemed to have conditioned herself to a laissez-faire policy concerning me and my ill-disciplined class.† (source)
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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)
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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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She is quite unprincipled; her philosophy is carpe diem for herself and laissez faire for others.† (source)
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When it comes to wage rates, however, the company is remarkably silent and laissez-faire.† (source)
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That doctrine of laissez faire which so often in our history.† (source)
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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)
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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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The country is adapting a more laissez-faire trade policy.†
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Her laissez-faire approach to raising children is too much for me.†
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