Example sentences for: laissez-faire

How can you use “laissez-faire” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • But there is also a more serious reason that bionomics appeals to the free-market faithful: They find the conventional case for laissez-faire too modest, too conditional, for their tastes.

  • The Post story describes the far more laissez-faire approach taken by eBay, the explodingly popular site that allows users to barter, trade, and sell everything from pez dispensers to can openers.

  • Her father was a parvenu who used to be a bon vivant and the enfant terrible of his clique but became a laissez-faire entrepreneur in the entrepôt business and then accepted a post as a chargé d'affaires, which entitled him to a UN laissez-passer, (working to improve detente, and rapprochement with the ancien régime), though he remained a bit of a roué, having an affaire with the au pair.

  • A story about the development of HDTV contends that, contrary to laissez-faire dogma, government regulation can help private industry make better products.

  • Thus, the United States should reverse its "imperial laissez-faire" policies and take an active hand in the global economy.


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