Sentence examples for given lapse from inspiring English sources

The first intention was to prescribe a certain end to their life, and the inner economy of these machines was devised thus with such an artifice that they cannot exercise their functions but for a given lapse of time, after which death must come.

OnStar expects the partnership to increase uptake of OnStar subscriptions and potentially give lapsed subscribers an incentive to renew enrollment.

Despite his rampant popularity and sound bytes that give lapsed Catholics great hope, Pope Francis cannot save a Church by himself, nor should he have to.

But given my lapse of judgment with the pry bar, I didn't relax too much.

And there have been days -- unfortunately, none of them recent given my lapse in going to class -- where I have felt the smoothness of the smooth art.

General correlations were developed among the vessel time to failure and the effective coating thickness in full engulfment scenarios, providing a preliminary assessment of the coating thickness required to prevent tank rupture for a given time lapse.

Many authors have appealed to the history of eugenics to provide warnings about the dangers of genetic testing or to urge caution as we move forward.[47] Historian Diane Paul (1994b) characterizes eugenics as the "'approved' project anxiety": given the lapse of time, we inevitably look good compared to earlier generations (p. 143).

There's this defeatist narrative that America is incapable of passing gun control policies, given the lapse of the federal prohibition on assault weapons sales in 2004 and failure of Congress to enact new measures in the wake of some of this decade's worst highly visible rampage attacks.

Expansively chatty, she's given to lapsing into artspeak, talking of "problematising" the band's image with their sleeve art.

The midfielder is given to lapses of indiscipline, as hordes of elite players over the years have been.

Within the last two decades, the values for an integrated reservoir studies have been recognized given the lapses in the standalone reservoir modeling approach.