Sentence examples for not lapse from inspiring English sources

Good triumphs, yet Tolkien's epic does not lapse into escapism.

At least state education ensures that they do not lapse into illiteracy.

Membership in the Senate shall not lapse because of leave of absence or by virtue of transference to emeritus status.

Unlike elsewhere, uncompleted laws do not lapse when its term ends, but simply resurface next time around.

That would allow cases to be treated as crimes against humanity which, under international human rights law, could not lapse or be covered by an amnesty.

Ms. Hayden said that many syphilitics did not lapse into full paralysis or dementia and that some experienced intense periods of creativity not long before dying.

His "family religion" was "judgment", and he has not lapsed.

He has not lapsed into his old ambivalence.

You must be advanced to candidacy, and in good standing (not lapsed), in order to file.

To his credit, Mayor Rudolph Giuliani has not lapsed into the lavish spending that marred the last term of Mayor Koch.

Mr. Carrillo may be able to argue on appeal that the statute of limitations has not lapsed because the government barred any prosecution for decades.