1.   Anyone familiar with SETI, however, will recognize a few serious lapses, which are the result not of ignorance so much as the exercise of cinematic license.

2.   At times, Mueller seemed to take pains to praise FBI agents and managers even as he acknowledged serious lapses in their performance.

3.   According to the investigators, the Marines arrested on Thursday individually stole explosives after they sensed a serious lapse in record-keeping by Camp Lejeune munitions personnel.

4.   Even the most talented, tuned-in designers had serious lapses.

5.   For years, government agents like Sullivan have documented continuing serious lapses, but to no avail.

6.   Gingrich did not venture to call for the public censure of prominent Americans guilty of serious moral lapses, such as, for instance, politicians not unlike himself.

7.   He implied that offering second-hand food to doggies was a serious lapse in social graces.

8.   His request reveals a serious lapse in judgment.

9.   Some say he should have been more hands-on, others say he had serious lapses in judgment.

10.   The charge led to a series of government investigations, which confirmed serious lapses by the CIA, and Deutch punished several agency officials for misconduct.