Critics say FERC’s standards to determine the merit of permits for export pipelines are especially lax, incorporating such easily met benchmarks as whether projects will generate taxes and jobs.
It’s His Land. Now a Canadian Company Gets to Take It.|by Lee van der Voo for ProPublica|October 1, 2020|ProPublica
Reported data breaches are rare, but some scribe companies have lax security, said Cliff Baker, CEO of the health care cybersecurity firm Corl Technologies.
Time-crunched doctors are relying on remote-working scribes to take notes via video call|lbelanger225|September 30, 2020|Fortune
Hahn emphasized the role of science in the development process as the agency has come under scrutiny for potentially lax standards for a vaccine.
Where the 4 major coronavirus vaccine candidates currently stand|Sy Mukherjee|September 23, 2020|Fortune
It’s just the latest in a series of actions by the coalition that has targeted Facebook over its lax policing of its service.
Kim Kardashian, Katy Perry, and Leonardo DiCaprio plan one-day Instagram boycott. Here’s why|Danielle Abril|September 15, 2020|Fortune
Wyoming has particularly lax business transparency laws, and Platinum Advertising appears to be a shell corporation.
Federal Prosecutors Have Steve Bannon’s Murky Nonprofit in Their Sights|by Yeganeh Torbati|August 24, 2020|ProPublica
Conservatives have attacked the lax security under Obama, even straining to tie the threat to ISIS.
Obama, the Coffee Salute, and the Dementia on the Right|Sally Kohn|September 25, 2014|DAILY BEAST
In the age of the Internet and in our lax regulatory environment, there are more quacks than ever before.
The Strange, True Tale of the Old-Timey Goat Testicle-Implanting 'Governor'|Penny Lane|September 16, 2014|DAILY BEAST
It is also quite easy to drive from California to Nevada, which also has lax gun laws.
How the Gun Nuts Try to Excuse Away the Santa Barbara Slaughter—and Why They’re All Wrong|Cliff Schecter|May 27, 2014|DAILY BEAST
If lax guns laws and more guns overall made people safer, the United States would be the safest place in the world.
How the Gun Nuts Try to Excuse Away the Santa Barbara Slaughter—and Why They’re All Wrong|Cliff Schecter|May 27, 2014|DAILY BEAST
Blame for the deaths fell on lax safety measures, which allowed the victims to get too near to the test site.
Branson’s Galactic Obstacles: Tom Bower Puts a Damper on Virgin’s Space Flight Dreams|Clive Irving|January 30, 2014|DAILY BEAST
Discipline on the privateers was lax, and the profits of a successful cruise were enormous.
The Naval History of the United States|Willis J. Abbot.
The presence of such a man as Lax in the country was an eyesore to Captain Clayton, which it was his primary duty to remove.
The Landleaguers|Anthony Trollope
You are lax in the wrong place, and scrupulous in the wrong place.
The History of England from the Accession of James II.|Thomas Babington Macaulay
He had been aware that Lax was in the court, and had seated himself opposite to the place where the man had stood.
The Landleaguers|Anthony Trollope
Monsieur Etienne de Saint Pierre fell back, lax with astonishment.
The Firebrand|S. R. Crockett
British Dictionary definitions for lax
lax
/ (læks) /
adjective
lacking firmness; not strict
lacking precision or definition
not taut
phonetics(of a speech sound) pronounced with little muscular effort and consequently having relatively imprecise accuracy of articulation and little temporal duration. In English the vowel i in bit is lax
(of flower clusters) having loosely arranged parts
Derived forms of lax
laxly, adverblaxityorlaxness, noun
Word Origin for lax
C14 (originally used with reference to the bowels): from Latin laxus loose