The second difficulty was the call for the lapsing of the resolutions.

The entire mountain was col- lapsing, and anything caught within its tunnels would be crushed.

After the lapsing of a certain period (90 days in Australia) with no comment the patent is granted.

"Even now, the defenses surrounding Earth are col- lapsing.

Several findings, including the lapsing of a professional certificate which caused a subsidy forfeiture, were reported to the school board and administration.

Rule 10 of the previous court rules provided for the lapsing of a summons after twelve months if service has not taken place by then.

Still, the lapsing of that age was nothing compared with what has been going on since the pill and penicillin made sexual activity unconsequential.

Moments later, Mr. Cuomo said the lapsing of the laws would bring "chaos, chaos, chaos."

In 1785, with the lapsing of its royal decree, the company was reformed by its owners into the Real Compañia de Filipinas.

With the possibility of either or both of them not coming back into the House before the lapsing of the 24-hour deadline, voting had to be temporarily suspended.

Where late the cry of blood Rang on the midnight air, The mournful lapsing of the flood, The wild winds in the lonely wood, Claim sole dominion there.

Some of those apprised of the studio's plans suggest Disney could eliminate 20 percent to 30 percent of the studio staff, including some through attrition and lapsing of contracts.

When the woman was safely on inside, Orb tried to go back for the drummer, but it was too late; the upper stories were col- lapsing, and everything was going down in stages.

Such lapsing of the forest then they use And turn it into countless lowly dwellings; Sometimes they even cut the living down To leaven the dead roofs they would erect.

The goal had been reached and the daily expectation of reaching it had vanished and there seemed to be little to fill the void that was left by the lapsing of the expectations.

The Pentagon is likely to face deeper budget cuts next year with the lapsing of a 1990 budget agreement between Congress and the White House that barred raids on military spending for domestic programs.

As the galley hove nearer to land, he thought that he beheld people moving darkly, visible in the lapsing of surges on a low beach, and then hidded once more by foam and spindrift.

Fortunately for Hardenberg, this coincided with the lapsing of the principalities of Ansbach and Bayreuth to Prussia, owing to the resignation of the last margrave, Charles Alexander, in 1791.

I understood that she was really concerned with my threat to her influence over Meachem, but I was so distressed by the lapsing of the machine's power that I didn't care what they did to me.

Outraged, Bolan took advantage of the timely lapsing of his Fly Records contract and left for EMI, who gave him his own record label, the T. Rex Wax Co.

But some consumer groups said they were not disappointed because, they said, the lapsing of the state measure means that officials may now enforce more stringent local laws in New York City and surrounding counties that the state law had superseded.

And silence--awful silence broods Profoundly o'er these solitudes; Nought but the lapsing of the floods Breaks the deep stillness of the woods; A sense of desolation reigns O'er these unpeopled forest plains.

There was also a highly partisan press, which flourished after the final lapsing of the Licensing Act in 1695, and an examination of the war of words between the two parties suggests significant continuities with the party conflict of the Exclusion Crisis.

Johnson Tan Han Seng v. Public Prosecutor [1977] 2 MLJ 66 is a Malaysian case concerning the lapsing of a Proclamation of Emergency by the Yang di-Pertuan Agong (King).

That in the event of the cancellation or lapsing of any such policy, whether at the request of a joint policyholder or for non-payment of premium, or for any other reason, the Insurers will give the Society written notice of the cessation of cover.

My near lapse had given me a great deal to think about.

How much she had told him in these little lapses.

As the author is not present, Question no 8 lapses.

Even death was not really likely, he thought, for a simple lapse.

After what seemed the lapse of a century it came.

But more than anything, they saw it as a lapse of common sense.

It was certainly the most serious lapse of security I can ever remember.

Remember: what you do most of the time is more important than any lapses.

Even though there were lapses, an effort was being made.

There are two ways to view this sort of lapse.

But the long lapse of time was hard to bridge.

Congress will not want to let them lapse in an election year.

Yet these lapses seem to come as no surprise to you.

Also remember that one lapse does not a fat person make.

That question lapses, however, as the author is not present.

I called him after a lapse of twenty five years.

Plus it was the only way to make up for her lapse.

The first change we noticed came after a lapse of some minutes.

She thought about the lapse of time involved, and nodded.

Maybe it would be better to let the marriage lapse.

A lapse of judgment which I will not make again.

"Was there much of a time lapse between the two?"

The time lapse before its return to normal space was very short.

He pulled himself together quickly, but a lot of people had seen the lapse.

Usually after the third or fourth such lapse they give up on you.

She lapsed into thought, and he too would turn serious.

But the second has lapsed, if that is what you want.

She was told that the order had lapsed three months earlier.

He lapsed into thought and then started taking the money out of her bag.

The name lapsed, but was then used again for the new property, in 1984.

But the option lapsed, and he said the project is dead.

But the company has lapsed back into its losing ways.

The time that lapsed in those events, however, was 116 days.

About a half hour after that, the man lapsed into sleep.

Perhaps because of this, any conversation between them had lapsed.

Following a successful number of years the club lapsed in 1939.

Once they were over, he lapsed during a high stress period at work.

When they left the field, that part of the agency's business usually lapsed.

I gave it up and we lapsed back into silence.

They had not done so since the previous agreement lapsed in 2000.

But this practice appears to have lapsed in more recent years.

From the final decision to surgery only one year lapsed.

Her voice ran down on the single word and she lapsed into silence.

The tournament did not take place in 2010 and has lapsed since then.

However, the film has since lapsed into the public domain.

Maybe she had lapsed into a coma after her run.

The option lapsed recently, but I still see in the book a great television movie.

Because the tax had lapsed in early 1996, that number was zero.

She simply omitted talking about the six years that had lapsed in between.

Nothing was any good now, and he lapsed into a dark vacuum of heat.