Sentence examples for so expired from inspiring English sources

The stopgap spending bills are needed for the government to continue spending money because its authority to do so expired when the fiscal year ended on Sept. 30.

A Tracinda spokesman, George Sard, said his company had expected DaimlerChrysler to file a motion for dismissal because a deadline to do so expired today.

Special permission from the secretary of state to do so expired last summer which means, by law, it must conduct a daily act of collective worship that is "wholly or mainly of a Christian character".

After reserving around a million dollars in ads in the Little Rock market, the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee reversed course yesterday and canceled the first half of the ad buy -- hours before the deadline for doing so expired -- and there is a strong possibility that they may cancel the second half as well.

It took a week for the reason for the Council's refusal to become clear, when it turned out that ten Member States have not, to date, transposed the Working Time Directive at all, even though the deadline for them to do so expired in March 2005.

Without it, NASA would have been unable to buy passage aboard the Soyuz after the current Congressional permission to do so expires in 2011.

That's quite a trick, with a card so long expired.

Then I "forgot" about them and so they expired.

It would not be in the public interest if applicants could challenge decisions after the time limit for doing so had expired, as this would delay actions taken by the executive.

The solutions have been rehearsed often by this newspaper: lower tax rates and far fewer exemptions; a tax system that focuses on individuals not companies; regulations with sunset clauses so they expire.

These are spending limitation amendments, so they expire in a year and are limited in their impact, but it is remarkable that Republican leadership is under such pressure that they had to include them.