Just like it's not right to have to execute a soldier because of a single lapse in judgment.

But each day, a subway motorman must neutralize the monotony with the realization that a single lapse could cost other people their lives.

It would take only a single lapse by one of the slave girls to reveal his true gender, and we would be undone.

Unfortunately, a single lapse in this mother's policy was the first step on the slippery slope of interrupted nights.

A single lapse after all the tension of the day is not to be unexpected.

"Surely I should never have chided the king for a single lapse in guarding so large a trust."

In a single lapse of screaming thunder there was no mistaking Alison's voice.

She sang the cycle without interruption and without a single lapse of memory or concentration.

A single lapse in common sense can have a fatal consequence.

Either way, she will relish a return to a soft surface here, and it could well pay to forgive her single lapse.