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Example sentences for "laisser"

Lexicographically close words:
lairs; laissa; laissant; laisse; laissent; laissez; laist; lait; laith; laitie
  1. Il faut laisser couler l’eau = What can’t be cured must be endured.

  2. Here we have the old meaning of laisser (= laxare) to leave off.

  3. Laisser Cela laisse à désirer = There is room for improvement; It is not quite the thing.

  4. To laisser faire the good is to prevent evil.

  5. To say, on the other hand, that the laisser faire and laisser passer of the economists means: Let robbery alone; let fraud alone etc.

  6. Restrained within its natural limits, the famous laisser faire and laisser passer of the Physiocrates deserves even to-day our respect and our confidence.

  7. The laisser faire and laisser passer of economists is, in no way, like the absolute formula, which some have denounced and others sought to utilize, as relieving authority of all care and all intervention.

  8. Already she had been given proofs of the character of his laisser passer.

  9. My laisser passer and yours, Monsieur, if you choose to accompany me.

  10. On se met a genoux pour donner a laver au Pretre pendant la Messe, et apres qu'il a essuye ses doigts, celui qui lui a donne l'eau demeurant a genoux lui presente le bassin retourne, sur lequel le Pretre met sa main pour la lui laisser baiser.

  11. And if we had had to consult our manufacturing interests alone, a policy of laisser faire would doubtless have been the best.

  12. Indeed, we can hardly think of this great champion of external control and state intervention favouring the open-handed methods of laisser faire.

  13. Veuillot, who communicates the correct views about the Council daily to the French, has declared that it was right to deprive the Bishops of the freedom of evil (qu'il ne fallait pas laisser aux Eveques la liberte du mal).

  14. This was only natural, seeing that he had not yet instilled into us his own attractive habit of laisser aller and laisser faire, and that his red trousers offered such a beautiful mark.

  15. Being an ultra-individualist, he is in favour of laisser faire, where laisser faire is most indefensible and most disastrous.

  16. Freedom to form combinations is no doubt a logical application of laisser faire; and the anarchic possibilities latent in laisser faire have been made plain in the anti-democratic movements of labour.

  17. But incidentally the policy of Free Trade and of laisser faire, the policy of cheapness which benefits the consumer and takes no notice of the producer, encourages and causes sweating and untold misery to the workers.

  18. Free Trade means laisser faire all round, not only in regard to inanimate commodities, but in respect to that most important commodity of all--human labour power.

  19. The individualist devotees of laisser faire used to teach us that when restrictions were removed, free competition would settle everything.

  20. A champion of the policy of laisser faire argues: "The State cannot make work, if by work is meant the doing of something that somebody wants done.


  21. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "laisser" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.