Sentence examples for it lapse from inspiring English sources
"The payroll tax cut is better than nothing, and letting it lapse without putting anything else in its place would certainly worsen our economic problems," said Leonard E. Burman, a former Treasury economist now teaching at Syracuse University.
Congress let it lapse when it expired in 1999.
Debate persists over whether to extend the law, revamp it or simply let it lapse.
Is this what I was leaving when I decided last summer to let it lapse?
Developers forced to build within two years of gaining planning permission, or see it lapse.
For decades, it clung tenuously to life, barely preserved by a couple of distilleries that would not let it lapse.
After the Restoration, the Licensing Act of 1662 was ruthlessly enforced until after the Great Plague of 1664 65, when its rigours were mitigated; it lapsed in 1679.
Poland's government has said that it does not intend to renew its supply agreement with Gazprom when it lapses in 2022.
Though at times it lapses into dry musicology or repetitive superficiality, at its best "American Roots Music" offers a textured and expert guide to America's many musical subcultures.
It lapsed in other ways as well.
