(v. t.) Not tense, firm, or rigid; loose; slack; as, a lax bandage; lax fiber.
(v. t.) Not strict or stringent; not exact; loose; weak; vague; equivocal.
(v. t.) Having a looseness of the bowels; diarrheal.
(n.) A looseness; diarrhea.
Example Sentences:
(1) As Russian companies Polymetal, Polyus Gold and Evraz race to join Eurasian Natural Resources as FTSE100 companies, despite their murky practices, because of London's incredibly lax listing requirements, one future scenario is becoming clearer.
(2) These blood flow and temperature changes also occurred when ELV animals were subjected to simultaneous LAX.
(3) The universal credit scheme has been overseen by "alarmingly weak" management, with systems so lax that a secretary was allowed to authorise purchase orders worth £23m , according to the public accounts committee.
(4) Approximately 27% of the individuals had 1 lax joint, whereas only 3% possessed all 5 features.
(5) Traders, enabled by lax futures regulations, are perhaps the only people to see the bright side of the beating sun.
(6) The retracted lower eyelid is tight in contrast to the lax lower eyelid of the common involutional ectropion.
(7) Roundish cells, appearing to be myofibroblasts surrounded by a more lax connective tissue and elastic fibers, were found close to the Dacron threads.
(8) Although only flights to Sharm have been suspended, there is worry about Egyptian airports in general over alleged lax screening amid heightened fears over terrorism, a security source said.
(9) The coroner cited "inadequate" training and "lax" supervision as factors in the tragedies.
(10) These include eyelid laxity with or without atrophic orbicularis muscle tone, lax canthal tendons, hypoplastic malar eminences, unrecognized Graves' ophthalmopathy, unilateral high myopia, or the secondary blepharoplasty.
(11) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Donald Trump comments on death of Dwyane Wade’s cousin – video Welcome to Iowa, where Trump's purple patch could turn a blue state red Read more Pence rejected a suggestion by CNN host Jake Tapper that lax gun safety laws in his own state, Indiana, may be stoking violence in Chicago.
(12) Obama administration officials had promised to toughen the lax environmental regulations of the George Bush era.
(13) This decade, on the other hand, has been relatively lax when it comes to pumping out neuron-destroying musical inanity.
(14) The apparently lax oversight of the company's financial regime by the energy regulator was heavily criticised last week by Tim Yeo, the former chairman of parliament's energy and climate change committee.
(15) The examination of parental attitude in dealing with the possibility of accidents (instructive, lax or repressive) did not allow us to demonstrate in any significant way the influence of these attitudes on accidental morbidity.
(16) To date, they have been too lax, and moved too slowly, allowing racists a free rein.” Cooper called on “companies like Twitter to take stronger action against hate crimes on their platforms”.
(17) All emergency department, LAX first-aid station, and paramedic records were examined.
(18) Why so tough on skilled migrants and so lax on boat arrivals?
(19) Analysts have for years been complaining about what they believe to be lax accounting standards in Britain's travel industry, where one-off write-offs are not uncommon.
(20) In order to address those concerns the two companies gave up gate slots and takeoffs at major US airports including Washington DC’s Reagan national, New York’s LaGuardia, Boston's Logan and LAX in Los Angeles.
Negligence
Definition:
(n.) The quality or state of being negligent; lack of due diligence or care; omission of duty; habitual neglect; heedlessness.
(n.) An act or instance of negligence or carelessness.
(n.) The omission of the care usual under the circumstances, being convertible with the Roman culpa. A specialist is bound to higher skill and diligence in his specialty than one who is not a specialist, and liability for negligence varies acordingly.
Example Sentences:
(1) Since all human cadaveric tissue is fixed whilst on the skeleton, we may assume that shrinkage of the muscles in such specimens is negligible.
(2) In group C there was a negligible increase of LVSWI despite a marked rise in PCWP.
(3) From this, it was suggested that a negligible amount of oestradiol was released from these compounds and that the oestradiol moiety was useful as a carrier for the nitrogen mustard moiety.
(4) However, the phosphorylation of a 73 kDa double band, which is negligible in the absence of added NaC1, is stimulated by this salt.
(5) Although T cells exposed to antigen in B-depleted LN of mu sm and irradiated mice gave negligible T proliferative responses in vitro, low but significant levels of primed T helper function were detected in a sensitive T helper assay in vivo.
(6) Factors of negligible importance prognostically were: complete sterilization at mammary and axillary level after radiotherapy, persistence of florid cancer tissue at mammary level and histiocytosis of the axillary lymph nodes.
(7) In addition, the trends in the three sets of data for the catalytic subunit indicate that ionic bonds are involved in binding PALA to the active site, and that non-productive binding by L-Asp is negligible under these experimental conditions.
(8) We feel that the above technique is simple and definitive with negligible complications.
(9) Activity peaked during the period corresponding to evening twilight and was negligible during the morning twilight period; in contrast, death feigning peaked during the morning twilight period.
(10) The adverse effects were negligible--one patient had light urticarial rash and pruritus.
(11) In contrast, corticosterone, testosterone, progesterone and oestradiol showed negligible ability to displace [3H]1 alpha,25-(OH)2D3 from its receptor.
(12) Despite its negligible amount, the DIssE RNA in virions appears to serve as the template for the synthesis of DIssE RNA in infected cells.
(13) Facial pain is a very constant phenomenon which does not- or only to a negligible degree--change over an agelong course.
(14) An abrupt decrease of the liver glycogen was found as well as a negligible rise of the blood sugar.
(15) In conclusion, respiratory morbidity is not negligible.
(16) The influence of sample preparation for electrophoresis was found to be negligible.
(17) "This age group feeds Radio 4's core audience and it would in my judgment be negligent not to [look at this]," Liddiment added.
(18) As far as the cardiovascular systems of the fetus and neonate are concerned the effects in the dosage used are negligible.
(19) Desaturation by 4 M MgCl2 indicated that the amount of endogenously bound hormone was negligible in our membrane preparations.
(20) With monoclonal antibody AA1, immunostaining was entirely specific for mast cell granules, and there was negligible background staining in a range of tissues including lung, tonsil, colon, gastric mucosa, skin, and pituitary.