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Pakistan has dealt with a number of major fires in recent years, often due to poor safety laws and building codes as well as lax enforcement.

From BBC ● Aug. 26, 2026

Concerns about lax lending standards, rising defaults and a concentration of loans in the software sector had caused a flight of capital in recent months.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 11, 2026

Marine accidents are a regular occurrence in Indonesia, an archipelago of more than 17,000 islands, partly due to lax safety standards and unpredictable weather.

From Barron's ● Aug. 3, 2026

Security at the bankrupt development was lax but oversight has since been improved, Petty said, with round-the-clock security guards, cameras, laser devices and tall metal walls topped with razor wire.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 23, 2026

It was a lax sunny day, warm and with the scent of pines heavy on the air.

From "The Milagro Beanfield War" by John Nichols

Supporters say the laxer regime could encourage more companies to go public; investors, hungry for data on corporate performance, oppose less-frequent reporting.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 17, 2026

More than two decades ago the country experienced what author Helen Gordon described as a "Saharan gold rush", fuelled in part by laxer regulations and a more stable political environment than some of its neighbours.

From BBC ● Aug. 9, 2025

Even within the laxer environment of immigration, where the rules of criminal detention don’t necessarily apply, there have long been additional limitations on the detention of children.

From Slate ● Jul. 31, 2025

And open-access publishers that charge authors to publish their work also have an incentive to publish as much as possible, which could lead to laxer quality control.

From Science Magazine ● May 31, 2024

If--as was always the case when civilisation advanced--the bond between lord and serf became laxer, the lord merely increased his luxury.

From Freeland A Social Anticipation by Theodor Hertzka

He called the licensing system "the laxest in Europe".

From BBC ● Jan. 6, 2026

But as a rapidly gentrifying city with some of the highest income inequality in the nation — and in a state with some of the laxest gun laws — gang culture has changed.

From New York Times ● Jan. 13, 2023

Today California has some of the laxest rules on the subject in the country.

From Economist ● Dec. 8, 2016

While the rest of my physique is mediocre by the laxest standards, I started adulthood with an exemplary foot.

From The New Yorker ● May 16, 2016

Her principles are abominable, and her morals are of the laxest; but many of her remarks are original, pungent, and entertaining.

From The Black Cat A Play in Three Acts by John Todhunter