Sentence examples for it lapsed in from inspiring English sources

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.

It lapsed in other ways as well.

Where it lapsed, in southern slaveholding colonies, a long period of economic backwardness resulted.

A treaty in Europe required countries to limit dual citizenship, until it lapsed in the 1990s.

But it lapsed in 1994 and, as Congress grew more disaffected with trade, Bill Clinton never won it back.

The NRA has not yet even been formed, after the bill to establish it lapsed in parliament.

It must have been trying, and she never renewed her pilot's license after letting it lapse in 1937.

The Cisneros investigation even outlived the law: Congress, weary after the investigation and impeachment of President Clinton, let it lapse in 2001.

The nation banned the sale of assault weapons for a decade until Congress let it lapse in 2004, and the NRA has blocked efforts to reinstate it.

In letting it lapse, in assuming millions of people would forever have the resources to drive an hour or more to the supermarket to pick up food supplies, we dangerously undermined our own community security.

President Obama had harsh words for the state of journalism and how it has lapsed in its duties to hold public figures – specifically those vying for his current job – accountable.