laisser faire
- a variation of laissez faire.
- a variation of laissez-faire.
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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 Chirol, Valentine, Sir
The individualist devotees of laisser faire used to teach us that when restrictions were removed, free competition would settle everything.
From British Socialism An Examination of Its Doctrines, Policy, Aims and Practical Proposals by Barker, J. Ellis
Neither of these two schools of policy, neither the international laisser faire of the Liberals, nor “hustle to the top” Imperialism, promise any reality of permanent progress for the world of men.
From A Modern Utopia by Wells, H. G. (Herbert George)
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 Chirol, Valentine, Sir
Thus Boisguillebert says: Il n'y avait qu'à laisser faire la nature et la libertê, qui est le commissionaire de cette même nature.
From Principles Of Political Economy by Lalor, John J. (John Joseph)
He adds: "All that I did was made possible thanks to a sort of complicity by laisser-faire."
From The Guardian ● Jun. 7, 2010
If you come to that, what is laisser-faire but an orthodoxy? the most tyrannous and disastrous of all the orthodoxies, since it forbids you even to learn.
From The Doctor's Dilemma: Preface on Doctors by Shaw, Bernard
Unfortunately, also, the disposition of society was to let alone the relations of master and dependent in accordance with the laisser-faire theory of the economists of that period.
From Society Its Origin and Development by Rowe, Henry Kalloch
And he nodded and laughed in a companionable and laisser-faire sort of way as he started his engine and took command of the wheel.
From The Prairie Mother by Becher, Arthur E.
He was bred up in the comfortable egoism of the opulent middle classes; the religion of comfort, laisser-faire, and social order was infused into his bones.
From Studies in Early Victorian Literature by Harrison, Frederic
