Sentence examples for lapse since from inspiring English sources

And they appear unswayed by criticisms that the terrorist attacks amount to the worst intelligence lapse since Pearl Harbor.

Dunga must have reconciled himself to the lapse since he chose the same starting line-up in Soccer City.

The attorney general decided not to prosecute because of the seven-year time lapse since the gifts had been accepted.

But the public discussion among influential members of Congress about freeing the C.I.A. from restrictions on the recruitment of criminals and known abusers of human rights as informants and about outlaw assassinations stems from a growing debate over the causes of what many in Washington are now calling the nation's biggest intelligence lapse since the surprise attack on Pearl Harbor in 1941.

In 1989 he was convicted and heavily fined on three perjury charges arising out of his denial to a congressional hearing that he had lobbied high officials before he had allowed a long enough time to lapse since he resigned, charges he indignantly denied.

The results showed that grasshopper species responded strongly and consistently to area of the site, time lapse since the last fire, and inconsistently to proportion of short grasses.

(The practice has continued, with a few lapses, since then — now it exists in digital form).

The UN secretary general said the mission could succeed despite five days lapsing since the attack.

Almost two decades have lapsed since the third installment in the series, "Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade" (1989).

Monty Panesar and Graeme Swann managed to fit their entire Test careers into the time that has lapsed since.

King also admits that he has suffered two minor gambling lapses since 2003, but is happy to confirm his last bet was six years ago.