Sentence examples for to be lapsed from inspiring English sources

Bavaria's new strength, however, was intolerable to neighbouring Austria, which immediately laid claim to a number of lordships, alleging them to be lapsed fiefs of the Bohemian, Austrian, and imperial crowns.

David Ben-Gurion, Israel's first prime minister, also thought Palestinians to be "lapsed" Jews, and at first he tried to convert them back to Judaism.Mikael Grut LondonShale oil not so golden* SIR The comparison of the California Gold Rush and the current rush for oil in North Dakota is not an apt analogy ("There's gold in them there wells", December 21st").

Although Asian women had the smallest proportion of interval cancers (24.2%), they were the most likely to be lapsed or non-attenders (P<0.001).

The Black women in our sample were slightly less likely to have been screen-detected than the other ethnic groups and the Asian women were more likely than the White group to be lapsed or non-attenders.

Less than a decade ago, the N.H.L. was thought to be lapsing into obscurity.

And just as the national party seems to be lapsing into fratricide, so a vicious internal war has broken out over the governorship.

With a crisis in the NHS looming there are bound to be lapses in clinical standards.

"It is clear from our audit that there continue to be lapses in the financial management system in Sierra Leone," the report said.

In several other cases, Saudi travelers were not interviewed before departing the country, and F.B.I. officials sought to determine how what seemed to be lapses had occurred, the documents show.

Jeff MacDonald, 59, started the Bay Area chapter in 2013 by handwriting letters to people who were lapsed members of the national society in his area.

Funny because Sassoon wants it to be, not because he is lapsing, DH Lawrence-style, into absurd nature-fetishism.