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Is it a purpose that could possibly be achieved by the laisser faire policy of the State in regard to the moral and religious side of education?
From Indian Unrest by Sir Valentine Chirol
Is not this an opportunity for the Government of India to respond to the Gaekwar's invitation and depart for once from their traditional policy of laisser faire?
From Indian Unrest by Sir Valentine Chirol
Restrained within its natural limits, the famous laisser faire and laisser passer of the Physiocrates deserves even to-day our respect and our confidence.
From Principles Of Political Economy by John J. (John Joseph) Lalor
At that time the traditional policy of laisser faire had still a powerful hold over men's minds, and to abandon it even in the case of rural Ireland was a veritable new departure in statesmanship.
From Against Home Rule (1912) The Case for the Union by S. Rosenbaum
But laisser faire is the order of the day everywhere in the neighborhood of Peking, and nothing is ever repaired nowadays by any chance.
From Scientific American Supplement, No. 664, September 22,1888 by Various
He adds: "All that I did was made possible thanks to a sort of complicity by laisser-faire."
From The Guardian ● Jun. 7, 2010
Industry and commerce were to be unshackled; laisser-faire was to be the order of the day; finances were to be reformed, and taxes lowered.
From A Political and Social History of Modern Europe V.1. by Carlton J. H. Hayes
It not only repudiates the laisser-faire principle, but it demands the aid of the State to bring about a better distribution of the products of labor and capital.
From Why I am opposed to socialism by Various
Indeed, she carries the laisser-faire principle almost to an extreme.
From Brooke's Daughter A Novel by Adeline Sergeant
But we must face that: in such crowded and poverty ridden civilizations as ours any orthodoxy is better than laisser-faire.
From The Doctor's Dilemma: Preface on Doctors by Bernard Shaw
