hands-off

• “The old guard, the hands-off crowd, started giving way to the younger senators, and to a new idea that while these agencies are essential to our security and must operate in secret, they must also operate under the law and make themselves accountable to the legislative branch and the courts.”

  Simon & Schuster: The Good Fight

• “Everyone starts laughing at the thought of a hands-off healer being an air healer.”

  Simon & Schuster: The Bushman Way of Tracking God

• “The same cautious hands-off approach applied to Yemen, whose role as a new base for al-Qaeda was highlighted after a failed attempt to blow up a plane over Detroit on Christmas Day, 2009.”

  Simon & Schuster: Zero-Sum Future

• “And how does this ‘hands-off’ government square with your earlier crowing about the 13th Amendment … seems we had to get pretty hands on to get that one passed and enforced.”

  Think Progress » Steele on serving as RNC chair: God has ‘placed me here for a reason.’

• “But his housing policies and hands-off approach to regulation encouraged lax lending standards.”

  Think Progress » Wall Street Bankers And Investors Fund New Media Platform For Gov. Bob McDonnell’s SOTU Response

• “And the cost of that hands-off, high-flying quality in the Kimball case is unbearable.”

  The Huffington Post: Anne Butterfield: AG for Reelection: Grandstanding and Carelessness for Colorado

• “(The feds have adopted a mostly hands-off policy, though they occasionally swoop in to make an example-setting arrest, like that of the comedian and stoner icon Tommy Chong, in 2003, for running a head shop.)”

  Cannabusiness

• “It's all done in the name of protecting its citizens, but I wonder if left alone there would actually be more deaths and violence with a 'hands-off' approach than there currently is with the full-on drug war.”

  Gun Trafficking and the Southwest Border

• “I won't engage in some sterile debate between laissez-faire and hands-on government," he told the CBI, dismissing Labour criticism that he has adopted a hands-off approach to boosting growth.”

  The Guardian: David Cameron lays out his vision for job creation in CBI speech

• “Later, when William enrolled at St. Andrews University in Scotland and Harry pursued his dream of becoming a career army officer at Sandhurst Academy, the press grudgingly agreed to extend this hands-off policy, allowing the princes breathing room as they grew into manhood.”

  Simon & Schuster: William and Kate

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