Sentence examples for allow to lapse from inspiring English sources

With any luck the ruling will also influence American politics, as Congress could allow to lapse the very mass surveillance provisions that elicited the court's vitriol, as the relevant clauses of the US surveillance legislation face sunset in 2017.

The senator has expressed specific concern that verification measures not be allowed to lapse, Mr. Fisher said.

But that law has been allowed to lapse under this president and the Republican-led Congress.

The impact of the stalemate depends on how long the benefits are allowed to lapse.

The payroll tax holiday was renewed once, before it was finally allowed to lapse in January.

On his watch the assault-weapons ban was allowed to lapse in 2004.

It has become a mantra since 1695, when the licensing order of 1643 was allowed to lapse.

The issue over Sicily dragged on, but minor Capetian interests in the Pyrenees and in Castile were allowed to lapse.

That is just about what happened the last time the credit was allowed to lapse, at the end of 2003.

America, the European Union and Switzerland have all introduced new farm subsidies (or restarted programmes that had been allowed to lapse).

Manufacturing was also allowed to lapse, with locally made goods — whether shoes or pharmaceuticals — all but disappearing.