Sentence examples for big lapses of from inspiring English sources

His reputation hasn't been helped by a number of big lapses of concentration during games, though Gonzalez's self-inflicted wounds don't end there.

For me, the costumes designed by Bernd Skodzig are the biggest lapse of the production.

She paused, before conceding that having allowed that photograph to be taken "was the biggest lapse of judgment in my life".

But the biggest lapse of all is the one major character not based on historical fact, a Shropshire servant named Alice Jones.

Administration officials said human error led to perhaps the biggest lapse of all: the failure to put Mr. Abdulmutallab on the no-fly list despite the government's having information that showed him to be not only a threat, but also a threat with a visa to visit the United States.

Such cases may be the product of big lapses in sound practice or mundane daily realities: pressure of time, misunderstanding, accident.

The failure to anticipate the difficulties at American International Group must stand out as one of the biggest lapses ever of financial intelligence – again, a responsibility in part of the New York Fed (although surely other government officials share some blame).

"Disorganized" individuals tended to have big lapses or fragmented stories about abuse or neglect.

"Not informing the government about such a private contract is a big lapse," says M. R. Srinivasan, a nuclear engineer and former member of the Planning Commission, a government body that crafts India's 5-year plans.

"One of [Obama's] biggest lapses," a New York Times editorial noted, "was his refusal to acknowledge that his entire speech, and all of the important changes he now advocates, would never have happened without the disclosures by [Edward] Snowden, who continues to live in exile and under the threat of decades in prison if he returns to this country".

The film's biggest lapse is its unconvincing imagining of a resolution to all human conflict in an afterlife on a beach.