5 sentences with “lax”

Then she focused on her daughter's body language, for her face, with its lax cheeks and downturned lips, rarely expressed anything.

The government's former lax supervision of the colonies ended when the architects of the British Empire implemented these new reforms.

However, despite the Navigation Acts, Britain exercised lax control over the English colonies for most of the 18th century due to the policies of Prime Minister Robert Walpole.

In order to gain the most economic benefit from England's overseas possessions, Charles II enacted the mercantilist Navigation Acts, although many colonial merchants ignored them because their enforcement remained lax.

Enforcement of the embargo proved very difficult, especially in the states bordering British Canada. Smuggling was widespread; Smugglers Notch in Vermont, for example, made his name by illegally trading with British Canada. Jefferson attributed the embargo's problems to lax enforcement.