Sentence examples for string of lapses from inspiring English sources

In fact, the string of lapses was capped by a staff lawyer receiving the highest performance rating from the agency, in part for her "ability to understand and analyze the complex issues of the Madoff investigation".

A former city crane inspector was found guilty on Friday of claiming to have inspected six cranes that he had not actually visited, part of a string of lapses by the Department of Buildings that came to light after two separate crane collapses in 2008 killed nine people.

It was even temporarily banned from launching new takeovers in 2005, after a string of regulatory lapses.

Any hint of ethical impropriety is particularly embarrassing for Mr. Harper's government, which came to power in 2006 after a string of ethical lapses by Liberal Party members.

The acknowledgment came as Energy Secretary Bill Richardson and his department faced harsh criticism in Congress over the loss of the hard drives, the latest in a string of security lapses at the New Mexico laboratory, where nuclear weapons are designed.

Adding to the problems, leading newspapers reported a string of security lapses, including the failure by the authorities to detect explosives brought into a competition site during a security drill.

A string of security lapses resulted in a four-day delay before the US secret service realised that a man had fired a high-powered rifle at the White House in 2011, in an incident that could have put President Barack Obama's daughters at risk, according to a Washington Post investigation.

Japan Airlines' chairman will resign to take responsibility for a string of safety lapses, the carrier said Monday, and announced that it swung to a profit for the fiscal year as a recovery in international tourism offset a decline in domestic air travel.

Shares of the burrito chain, which has been under a microscope since it was linked to a string of food safety lapses in 2015, fell 4.5percenttoto close at $356.05 on Thursday.

In the win over West Ham, he made a string of important saves after momentary lapses in defence and claimed a clean sheet with an excellent save.

Meyer declined comment.The incidents were the latest in a string of several safety and security lapses that in July prompted Nanos to suspend 23 employees and shut down all work at the 12,000-employee lab (Science, 23 July, p. 462).