lapsing


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Synonyms for lapsing

a failure to maintain a higher state

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When played at normal speed, time appears to be moving faster and thus lapsing.
Today, the industry finds itself in a situation of stagnant new business growth at the same time that it is seeing significant portions of that business entering the post-level premium period and potentially lapsing from their books.
With the lapsing of this ordinance chairman FPSC had become powerful once again who would see the matters related to promotions of officers of grade 20 and 21.
The milestones were one period of 24-hour abstinence within 2 weeks of a target quit date, lapsing with at least one cigarette, and relapsing into regular smoking for at least 7 consecutive days.
That court found that the lapsing withdrawal rights given to four trust beneficiaries, although never exercised, gave those beneficiaries the right to immediate possession of the contributed property; thus, the donor was entitled to the annual exclusion for the gifts deemed made to each of the four beneficiaries.
Lapsing into the mute, precise inscription of technical forms characteristic of Neue Sachlichkeit, these images presented purely functional objects found in any architectural environment: an electric light fixture, some light switches, a metal drain, the clasp on a window.