Sentence examples for almost lapsed from inspiring English sources

Violence broke out in Skopje on March 28th during a protest over plans for a new church in the centre.Macedonia remains fragile eight years after it almost lapsed into war.

"There's nothing more humbling, actually, than being president," Mr. Obama said the other day at a fund-raiser, where his words almost lapsed into past tense as he stood beside Mr. Clinton and talked about Air Force One.

That perk almost lapsed for 2014 until the passage of the Tax Increase Prevention Act (TIPA).

Corriere della Sera's critic said the production was "so overloaded, so coloured and so crowded, it occasionally verged on the comic and almost always lapsed into bad taste".

T98G-DDS10 xenograft mice were disease free for 1 year, but suddenly, around day 365–375 after inoculation of T98G-DDS10, these three mice almost simultaneously lapsed into a cachexenografttion with an enlarged spleen, liver, lymicenode and invasion of immature lymphocytes in hemorrhagic ascites of the abdominal cavity.

In his book, Tribe, Junger writes, "Communities that have been devastated by natural or man-made disasters almost never lapse into chaos and disorder; if anything they become more just, more egalitarian, and more deliberately fair to individuals".

And he was Christian but not really, having lapsed almost as soon as he converted.

At our going-away party, he played rags and jazz for a roomful of people, and then, when the crowd thinned out and he was almost alone, he lapsed into a kind of Beethoven trance.

He is a more consistent finisher at the moment than David Villa — and much more than the lapsed, almost-forgotten Fernando Torres.

Clea's test showed that she fell asleep almost immediately and quickly lapsed into R.E.M. sleep.

Similarly, restrictions lapsed on almost seven million restricted shares on Jan . 25 giving the partners full control over those shares as well.