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be lax
adjective
Lenient and allowing for deviation; not strict.
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But enforcement can be lax.
Quotas would be lax.
Rules about donations tend to be lax and complex.
On top of that, Chinese corporate governance can be lax, and accounting opaque.
That is not to say government or regulators should be lax.
We do not have the right to be lax; we do not have the right".
Employees lose their devices and can be lax with security compliance.
Building codes were thought to be lax; many of the structures that collapsed were constructed of mud bricks.
A new labor law has established solid workplace-safety standards, according to activists, although enforcement is said to be lax.
Government policy makers breathed in the same optimism, which no doubt encouraged them to be lax on regulatory restraint.
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Security, too, was lax.
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