Sentence examples for let lapse from inspiring English sources

The EU and Japan could revive their WTO complaints, which they let lapse after the Massachusetts law was struck down by a lower court.

Two years ago this month, the US and Vietnam let lapse the three-year bilateral agreement that allowed Americans to adopt Vietnamese children.

The paired tables on either side of the door create an easy intimacy, conversations can be struck up easily and just as easily let lapse.

That entitled her mortgage servicer, CitiMortgage, to force-placed a policy on her house, but it chose one that cost three times as much as the policy she had let lapse.

In fact, China already agreed in recent years to repeal or let lapse about half of the subsidies on the administration's list in efforts to resolve parts of other trade disputes.

"This is an opportunity that we can't let lapse, for economic growth in our country and also for a long-term presence in the region, particularly as it relates to China," Mr. Roskam said.

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?

Neither party seems to want to let these lapse in their entirety, but again, they differ on the details.

For decades, it clung tenuously to life, barely preserved by a couple of distilleries that would not let it lapse.

But once in office, he quietly set aside that promise because of the recession, proposing to let them lapse in 2011 as the original law provided.