laissez-faire approach
collocation in Englishmeaningsoflaissez-faireandapproach
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laissez-faire
noun[U]
uk/ˌleɪ.seɪˈfeər/us/ˌleɪ.seɪˈfer/
unwillingness to get involved in or influence other ...
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approach
noun
uk/əˈprəʊtʃ/us/əˈproʊtʃ/
a way of considering or ...
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Alaissez-faireapproachtowards self-help, in consequence, will merely reinforce rather than reduce the existing socioeconomic and gender inequalities.
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The original moderation technique is far from being alaissez-faireapproach, it is meant to keep the discussion under strict control.
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The way officialdom scrutinises what direct payments users do with their money combines both a bureau-paternalist andlaissez-faireapproach.
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But then thelaissez-faireapproachthat leaves hate speech unregulated is costly.
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Should alaissez-faireapproachtowards self-help be adopted?
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These are, first, to try to eradicate self-help, second, to adopt alaissez-faireapproachor third, to swim with the tide of these structural changes and develop such work.
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Thislaissez-faireapproachallows for a wide range of experimental practices, which in turn may increase variability in the data obtained and ultimately may impede theoretical advances.
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We did not first adopt alaissez-faireapproach.
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However, we do not have to take alaissez-faireapproachto economic forces.
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It had predetermined that it wanted to promote alaissez-faireapproachto the industry—a completely free market, open to anyone who met the required conditions.
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Not to answer that question is to advocate a completelylaissez-faireapproach—a family free-for-all—and children deserve better than that.
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We cannot take alaissez-faireapproach, hoping that the problem will be tackled by success in the war.
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We must not allow alaissez-faireapproachto develop once the children actually arrive.
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We cannot afford the sort oflaissez-faireapproachwhich has so characterised other parts of the regulatory system.
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Across the country, alaissez-faireapproachto health authority mergers has given rise to a patchwork quilt of purchasers.
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One cannot continue with thelaissez-faireapproachof the past.
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For far too long there has been an almostlaissez-faireapproachin the court system.
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Frankly, the worst days for new towns were in the 1980s and 1990s when there was alaissez-faireapproach, as it was described, and distant landlords.
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Therefore, his use of the term liberty was more in reference to alaissez-faireapproachto the economy, and religious liberty.
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