Professional riders regard falling with intense disapproval, not just as a technical mistake, but as a kind of awful moral lapse.

Other situations require discretion: financial problems, marital stress, conflict on the board, a moral lapse.

Either in general discussion or in private conversation, two or three names would be mentioned-prominent ministers who had stepped down after admitting some moral lapse.

In some extreme cases of public scandal, a priest or bishop would be removed from a particular position, but his moral lapse was not grounds for disqualification as a priest.

Her frank comments about their moral lapses did not go down well.