Sentence examples for worst lapses from inspiring English sources

And the worst lapses at HUD and at Fannie Mae, most experts and regulators now agree, came years after Mr. Cuomo departed, as Bush appointees set even higher and more perilous goals for personal home ownership.

THE memory of my worst lapse in judgment since becoming a parent is beginning to fade, so I am willing to share the horrifying details to help others avert catastrophe.

After all, the paper's worst lapse — the inadequate reporting of the weapons of mass delusion — was an ignominy shared by the rest of the news media, which relished the spectacle of The New York Times devouring its own but have hardly exhibited redemptive vigor themselves.

At its worst, Hairspray lapses into sentimental piety.

And they appear unswayed by criticisms that the terrorist attacks amount to the worst intelligence lapse since Pearl Harbor.

At their worst, they lapse into vehicles demanding control.

During perhaps the worst nuclear-security lapse in the history of the U.S. Navy, Father William (Bix) Bichsel, Father Stephen Kelly, Sister Anne Montgomery, and two others had managed to sneak into the Strategic Weapons Facility Pacific — a storage area containing hundreds of nuclear warheads for Trident missiles.

Instead, a half-hour after their arrival, she lapsed into her worst seizure yet.

The play is "a journey of moral discovery," she said, and the characters are "people who are wrestling with their best and worst selves, and who keep lapsing into something they don't want to be".

Through the worst, he never let his JDate membership lapse.

OK, perhaps that's an exaggeration, but allowing a life insurance policy to lapse is one of the worst financial decisions possible for a senior or boomer.