Sentence examples for on lapses from inspiring English sources

While testifying in Washington this week, Exxon executives blamed the gulf oil spill on lapses by BP.

Federer, who got his first ATP victory in Milan last year, took advantage on lapses by Rusedski at key points.

Congress began focusing on lapses in student visas after the first World Trade Center bombing, in 1993.

He was also involved in drugs and robberies.In Britain, public attention has focused on lapses in security at the Maze prison.

In a collision of science and politics, environmentalists place the blame largely on lapses in the administration of former Gov. Christie Whitman.

Such achievements make it all the more dismaying to find that in this rich, learned, briskly written, maddening yet necessary study, Gay's formidable syntheses often run aground on lapses of knowledge and judgment.

Police officials have said Ms. Walton's dismissal was based on her record of lapses on the job and had been decided before her testimony.

Starvation is frequently brought on by lapses in a scheduling calculation, by resource spills, and can be deliberately created by means of a refusal of-administration assault.

"The Horizontal World" sometimes verges on lapsing into a dry dissertation on the geological and migratory history of the Great Plains.

The ability to distinguish between effects on lapse rate and accumulation time constant is critical to this paper.

5) Distinguishing effects on lapse rate and accumulation time Another concern regards the possibility of bolstering the model-based inferences from the behavioral data.