Sentence examples for Long lapsed from inspiring English sources

Speculators shouldn't be able to take advantage of consumers by securing monopolies on old drugs where legitimate patents have long lapsed, and then inappropriately jacking up the prices.

Of all the reasons to attempt to surmount the Times' paywall, she ranks fairly low, having long lapsed into schtick.

But the long lapse of time was hard to bridge.

Forced to capitulate, he delivered a radio address "punctuated by long lapses and loud sobbing".

The long lapse in the performance of Graham works like "Lamentation" and "Letter to the World" saddens him.

I am a fool for stories of historic justice, even, or even especially, after long lapses of time.

His lips caught each other in the way they do at moments of stress, when we are suddenly confronted, after long lapses of unthought, with the actual mechanics of speech.

SAN FRANCISCO — Facebook said on Thursday that it had repaired a technical error that led to long lapses in service at its various properties, including Instagram, WhatsApp and Messenger.

Because of the long lapse of time between the first part of his cross-examination, the judge opened proceedings by refreshing the jury's memory as to Goodman's previous evidence.

For instance, he said, William Draper refers to the "Mohammedan theory of the evolution of man from lower forms, or his gradual development to his present condition in the long lapse of time".

Some lawyers who have represented MoMA and other museums in unrelated cases say that laws regarding time limits are not merely technical, but also speak to the question of whether it is possible to reconstruct an accurate historical record after a long lapse.