If, in the abstinence process, it is not possible to conquer Influencing Factors, they will lapse back into Indulgence.
Is it possible that when the dark clouds dissipate completely, the group will lapse back into its old, reckless ways?
Your brain needs evidence that your new efforts will be successful or you will lapse back into your old behaviors.
This is a date the whole world has an interest in because either Afghanistan will be a more or less stable country or it will lapse back into the chaotic and destabilized state it was after the Soviets left in 1989, and we all know how that turned out for the world.
Pension specialists are hoping Congress will use those two years to make fundamental changes in the pension law itself, so that when the breather expires, the system does not simply lapse back to today's troublesome state.
"When they get out, if they can't find an employment plan or housing, chances are they'll lapse back into substance abuse, and they're going to show up again in that person's store," Chang-Diaz said.
Instead of following my usual Sightings approach, which depends on the press and the internet, I'll lapse back into my old journalistic mode and report, using my own ample notes and impressions.
But repeated revisions of the lookout list kept lapsing back to the original search.
Or will he lapse back into bad, i.e., hilariously entertaining, old patterns?
The nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office said if the nation hurtles over that "fiscal cliff," the economy will likely lapse back into recession.
For example, if an efficacious grace has the effect that a sinner repents, only to lapse back into sin, then the grace had the proximate effect God intended it to have by His absolute will, even though it failed to have all the effect to which it tended by its nature and which God willed by His antecedent will.
