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Lapse in sentence

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Particularly frustrating was a seven year time lapse that reunites Hugh Cardiff (Sam Elliott) and Libby Tyree (Penny Peyser); Libby had gotten married to the adopted Tyree son (Bruce Boxleitner) off screen, and it just springs up on you with no advance warning.
That struck me as, at best unrealistic, at worst a lapse of the kind I could expect more of in the film.
People thinking of the historical record of the United States (prior to the controversy of the current Iraqi War) frequently overlook one peculiar diplomatic lapse.
The opening time lapse scene in Paris is worth the price alone.
Given that the IMF is the world’s anointed guardian of financial stability, its failure to warn and preempt constitutes a far more grievous lapse than its position on British austerity, with huge costs borne by many, especially the most vulnerable.
Any lapse on the part of one country can and will have consequences elsewhere, so it is crucial that leaders remain resolute.
The likelier outcome is that a victorious Putin would have many friends in Europe, and that the sanctions on Russia would be allowed to lapse.
My lapse was only apparent.
Far worse for Europe would be to avoid serious reform and lapse into egalitarian and genteel decline.
China’s official explanation for this lapse is that the time is not appropriate – a line that obviously is open to interpretation and change.
The charter of the First Bank of the United States was allowed to lapse in 1811; a generation later, in 1836, President Andrew Jackson successfully opposed the charter of the Second Bank of the United States.
This is a shocking lapse on two counts: first, the US and the world are losing time on decarbonization; and, second, the US is squandering the chance to develop its own future high-tech industries.
There is a strong sentiment that academics and institutions that collaborated with such an odious regime – often with the encouragement of their governments, no doubt – suffered a grave lapse of judgment.
Nonetheless, the circumstances of Hildebrand’s departure might be more worrisome than his lapse of judgment.
Elsewhere it is probably best to include in the laws of countries and the statutes of organizations a clause that makes affirmative action lapse after five years, or at most ten.
But critics point out a lapse in the program: low enrollment rates among children from poorer zip codes.
That lapse cannot be undone.
But this is a wrong conclusion, which illustrates a lapse of logic.
This is Europe’s new reality, not a momentary lapse in good order.
This officially projected increase in the annual deficit would be even worse but for the fact that the cuts in personal income tax enacted last year will lapse after 2025, reducing the 2028 deficit by 1% of GDP.
(The Kremlin's apparent failure to anticipate China's refusal to accept such a dispensation – particularly in Central Asia, which is key to President Xi Jinping's economic vision – represents a puzzling lapse in Putin's strategic calculus.)
But in January 2001, after Bush’s son, George W. Bush, assumed office, the Republicans allowed the budget caps and PAYGO rule to lapse.
Ricardo’s orthodox followers took no notice of it, assuming it to be a rare lapse by the Master.
The crucial lapse in Syria occurred in mid-2011, when the Assad regime’s violence was one-sided and containable.
Berlusconi carefully followed all of Machiavelli’s teachings on how to obtain and maintain power – all but one, and that lapse sealed his fate.
The main lapse in TFP growth in Europe over the past decade has been in services (excluding information and communications technologies).
And governments that once resented central banks’ power are now happy to have them compensate for their own economic-governance shortfalls – so much so that some legislatures seem to feel empowered to lapse repeatedly into irresponsible behavior.
But the murderous events of the past have left scars that a brief, unsustainable lapse of prosperity was unable to make disappear.
His apparent ethical lapse is magnified by the fact that, at this very moment, Russia is threatening to cut off Ukraine’s gas supplies if that country does not give in to the pricing demands of Kremlin’s state-owned gas behemoth, Gazprom.
But the disarmament and non-proliferation agenda is too important to let the CD lapse into irrelevancy as states consider other negotiating arenas.
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