There are dozens more examples like this, but you and I would lapse into a coma if I listed them.
These operations are mainly on state and private lands, and it's unlikely that drilling here would lapse if wide swaths of federal land, onshore or offshore, suddenly opened up for bidding.
Royalty Pharma has been critical of the value of the transactions and said its offer for Elan would lapse if Elan shareholders approved the transactions.
Antibiotics have stopped it being the mass-killer it once was, particularly among the old and frail, who would lapse into unconsciousness and often slip away in their sleep.
As it became clear that the UN's mandate would lapse at the end of 2008, President Bush refused to return to Congress to gain additional war-making authority.
The Russians want an agreement that would lapse in a short time, so that it would be easier to draw British and French forces into a subsequent round of talks; the United States wants an agreement that would last indefinitely.
The papal solution was that Honorius would appoint William papal legate in England and Scotland, which was done in 1126, giving William the position over York, but it was dependent on the will of the pope, and would lapse on the pope's death.
Usually it was dark or nearly dark when I swam, and the onrushing surf would lapse in and out of focus.
The Macarthur board is set to meet on Monday to decide whether it will go forward on the attempt to buy Gloucester, in which case the Peabody offer would lapse.
Without insulin, he would lapse into a coma.
We are told that the increased loan limit would lapse in a year or so.
