Sentence examples for lapse back from inspiring English sources

Or, like some former Soviet republics, it could lapse back into corrupt authoritarianism.

"I believe that we cannot afford Afghanistan to lapse back into a failed state".

He may lapse back into his Camus coma at any moment.

Or will he lapse back into bad, i.e., hilariously entertaining, old patterns?

"We've had about 300 violence interrupters," Hardiman calculates, "and we've only had five guys lapse back into the lifestyle".

It would be a disaster were we to lapse back into the bad habits of old," said Tyrie.

He only ever made a single convert – a tribal chief who lapsed back into polygamy.

But repeated revisions of the lookout list kept lapsing back to the original search.

Then he lapses back into his complaint about the administration's coddling of bondholders.

He had a momentary glimpse of blood and bodies, smoke and fire before lapsing back into unconsciousness.

Taylor was reprinted by the admirable Virago in the 1980s and 1990s, but has rather lapsed back into oblivion.