The government's agenda is not one of laissez-faire.    From Wordnik.com.  [Vince Cable to attack 'corporate short-termism'] Reference

The government's agenda, is not one of laissez-faire.    From Wordnik.com.  [Liberal Democrat conference live - Wednesday 22 September] Reference

Hong Kong has a reputation as a laissez-faire economy.    From Wordnik.com.  [Twelve Tips For The Markets] Reference

Instead, the United States had a laissez-faire policy.    From Wordnik.com.  [WARLORDS, DRUGS AND VOTES] Reference

Just 23 percent backed a laissez-faire free-trade policy.    From Wordnik.com.  [Time to stand up to China on trade] Reference

The next worst solution is the laissez-faire attitude of business as usual.    From Wordnik.com.  [We Ask: When Will the Pain Go Away?] Reference

Albrecht's laissez-faire reputation is legendary, but also a bit inaccurate.    From Wordnik.com.  [Hbo's Boldest Thoroughbred] Reference

Spencer, an old-fashioned Victorian liberal, wanted to promote laissez-faire.    From Wordnik.com.  [Michael Ruse: Darwinism and the Moral Argument for God] Reference

His approach to filmmaking, much like his approach to life, was laissez-faire.    From Wordnik.com.  [Me And Igi And The Fickle Finger Of Fame] Reference

But what of the Reagan administration's laissez-faire attitude toward business?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Wall Street: A Greed Apart] Reference

They tempered our traditional faith in self-reliance and a laissez-faire economy.    From Wordnik.com.  [How Our American Dream Unraveled] Reference

On Sept. 11, Tsang suggested that Hong Kong's laissez-faire tradition was outdated.    From Wordnik.com.  [Hong Kong: Roll Over, Adam Smith] Reference

Even today, laissez-faire capitalism still underpins most economic policy decisions.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Change Agent] Reference

Those of us who were brought up in the old laissez-faire school have to rub our eyes.    From Wordnik.com.  [The New York Times Current History of the European War, Vol. 1, January 9, 1915 What Americans Say to Europe] Reference

Its homeownership policy should be the same as its toaster oven policy: laissez-faire.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Un-American Dream] Reference

His concept of the free market was not at all that of Ayn Rand or other laissez-faire advocates.    From Wordnik.com.  [Marcella Mroczkowski: Danger! Empathy and Psychopathy as Competing Value Systems in Politics and Economics] Reference

Oh. But laissez-faire, juvenile production is exactly what works in the upper echelons of YouTube.    From Wordnik.com.  [Will YouTube superstardom translate to TV?] Reference

No intelligent person today would recommend a return to the laissez-faire individualism of the Social.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Fair Play Settlers of the West Branch Valley, 1769-1784 A Study of Frontier Ethnography] Reference

According to the New York Times, technology has fostered a laissez-faire attitude towards the practice.    From Wordnik.com.  [More Students Misunderstand The Fundamentals Of Plagiarism] Reference

For decades, Hong Kong's laissez-faire government stubbornly refused to invest in technology and research.    From Wordnik.com.  [Built To Last] Reference

Since then, to a startling degree, Bernanke has quietly repudiated the laissez-faire approach of Greenspan.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Money Man] Reference

The European Union's tougher line finally signals a departure from its earlier, more laissez-faire attitude.    From Wordnik.com.  [Trash City] Reference

By contrast, the banks and Wall Street want laissez-faire capitalism with minimal intrusion from the government.    From Wordnik.com.  [Jerry Chautin: Bank Regulation, Need for Transparency, and Politics as Usual Makes the Outcome Uncertain] Reference

A laissez-faire attitude toward land use is justified not only economically, but on humanitarian grounds as well.    From Wordnik.com.  [Hurricane Katrina, Houston And The Humanitarian Case Against Zoning] Reference

So when the time comes to make hard changes, he will be viewed as a reluctant reformer, not a laissez-faire ideologue.    From Wordnik.com.  [Shaking Up the Continent] Reference

Half the states take a laissez-faire stance toward heaven, generally exempting religious groups from charity-registration laws.    From Wordnik.com.  [Lighting The Amen Corner] Reference

Finally, America has long been lampooned by Canadian social critics as a throwback to a cruel, bygone era of laissez-faire capitalism.    From Wordnik.com.  [Canada Grows Up] Reference

Whether intended or not, Washington's laissez-faire attitude has had the practical effect of subcontracting American policy to Ariel Sharon.    From Wordnik.com.  [Secretary Of State Sharon] Reference

A laissez-faire dictator, Friedman inspected every load of bricks for proper color, but encouraged his curators to follow their radical intuitions.    From Wordnik.com.  [Say Goodbye, Mister Hip] Reference

The conservatives 'laissez-faire approach minimized the federal role in education; each school district was deemed responsible for its own problems.    From Wordnik.com.  [When Left Meets Right] Reference

In the mid-1980s, a laissez-faire Congress let the savings-and-loan industry blow itself up, endangering the very existence of federal deposit insurance.    From Wordnik.com.  [How To Fix The Pension Mess] Reference

In the wake of Enron and WorldCom, once laissez-faire boards of directors now are facing shareholder suits and trying to steer wayward companies through government inquiries.    From Wordnik.com.  [Aol's Board Is Digging In] Reference