1.   A dozen lawyers for the gun makers denied that their clients oversupplied states that had lax laws.

2.   Exacerbating the problem are lax lending laws in many states that allow predatory interest rates, witnesses said.

3.   For instance, she said, copyright violations on the Internet should not be tolerated because they originated in a country with lax copyright laws.

4.   Hard drugs are illegal in Switzerland, but lax law enforcement had allowed their use to flourish.

5.   Had the same request been made a year ago, it could have languished for months because of lax banking laws that had landed Panama on an international blacklist.

6.   IFPI said music piracy is worse in Italy than elsewhere in Western Europe because of lax law enforcement.

7.   It would allow anyone to avoid federal disclosure laws simply by declaring a group to be operating under the most lax state laws.

8.   Japan, along with Colombia, India, Russia and other nations, has blamed lax laws in the United States for the smuggled firearms flooding into their countries.

9.   Many health organizations use the cultures to develop vaccines and medicines, but experts worry that lax laws have made potentially dangerous pathogens too easily accessible.

10.   Most cruise companies are registered in countries without any corporate tax, and fly the flags of countries with with lax law enforcement.