Sentence examples for of the lapse from inspiring English sources

The disclosure of the lapse last week led Mr. Ashcroft to delay Mr. McVeigh's execution until June 11.

Judge Fitzgerald rejected the mistrial motion on Wednesday but instructed the jury of six women and two men to draw an adverse inference because of the lapse.

The commission's report was especially critical of the lapse by police officers in conveying crucial information after the bombing in Oslo.

The incompatibility of decisions is frequently not discovered at the time they are made because of the lapse of time between the decision and its consequences.

The attorney general, who said he learned of the lapse on Thursday, announced that he had ordered the Justice Department's inspector general to conduct an investigation into why the bureau had failed to turn over the material.

But the police said the exams found no physical evidence of rape because of the lapse in the time between the alleged sexual assault and the filing of the complaints.

"They were so focused on the lapse of insurance.

It's one of the lapses of Orson Welles.

Lawmakers were scathing in their criticism of the lapses.

The study did not look at whether any of the lapses actually led to infections in patients.

He was an author of an official Army history of the Iraq war — "On Point II" — that was sharply critical of the lapses in postwar planning.