The programme lacked lustre as no commoner was present except for those affiliated with the government in some way or the other. |
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The spicy beef was rare and served with green mango and coriander, but lacked any real zing. |
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Since the 1960s, immigrant Asians and West Indians have lacked confidence in the British Government's capacity to deal with them justly. |
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However, steel had structural advantages and durability which iron lacked, and the railways adopted steel for their tracks. |
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Orion kept the pressure on their opponents, whose play was ragged and lacked co-ordination. |
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I once went to a fashionable function when alfalfa sprouts were all the rage, and I don't have to tell you the evening lacked a certain pizzazz. |
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The remaining portion would merely have held the intent to do so and lacked the required actus reus. |
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He himself would have been personally acquainted with the complainant and in that respect lacked independence. |
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If it was fruits and vegetables that I lacked, I could always find an assortment of waxberries or dried and buttered peas. |
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What miseries were endured, and what injustices were done, because well-intentioned leaders lacked the quality of moral quick-wittedness! |
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In college, my quick wit and intelligence made up for whatever I lacked in dedication. |
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Like the house that Jack built, it had accreted new bits and pieces and additions over the years and lacked overall coherence. |
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The Glamorgan gentry patronized the boisterous village wakes, and even established new ones in communities which lacked them. |
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That gave them a chance and all they lacked was the ability to dominate less experienced opponents. |
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The results could be quite elegant, but sometimes lacked the feeling of abandon and adventure present in the music's greatest improvised solos. |
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His shot across the penalty area after good work by Neal Ardley lacked the power to trouble Paddy Kenny. |
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Its accidental properties, by contrast, are those that it just happens to have but might well have lacked. |
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Both performed well although, as usual, the manual felt the most responsive while the kickdown on the auto lacked punch. |
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On the road the manual was well behaved and although it lacked a little in the power department, it was apt enough. |
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But in the end he lacked the sagacity or the low cunning to do the one thing necessary. |
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His breaking pitches lacked movement, and his fastball, one of his saving graces in the fourth game, seemed to have departed him. |
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The petition lacked in material particulars to indicate such mala fide conduct on the part of the respondent. |
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The modern era of golf ball covers was dominated by balata, a natural rubber that provided high spin rates and soft feel but lacked durability. |
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Mr Parker claimed that due to his mother's illness, she lacked the testamentary capacity to make a valid will. |
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Nothing seemed to ruffle him and, what he may have lacked in attentiveness, he made up in luck. |
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In style, portable furniture imitated stationary pieces but often lacked omamentation such as marquetry, inlays, or elaborate mounts. |
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The first was that, though the sea was indeed rough, there was little rain, and the air lacked the clammy humidity of a thunderstorm. |
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With Rangers so many points behind it maybe lacked that cutting edge for their supporters. |
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True, the Lakes' shores lacked the sand fleas that infested ocean beaches and scared off those who couldn't tell them apart from lice. |
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The Paris Opera Ballet always had fine dancers but they lacked homogeneity and a good rep. |
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Both were sympathetic but lacked the will to tackle a problem that was not exclusively theirs. |
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Studies up to that point were entirely theoretical and lacked any real practical application. |
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I tried to tell her that the words made little sense and therefore lacked any depth. |
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What lacked so far is an authentic compilation of facts about this treasure trove of nature. |
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Each president had a seam of fatalism, but neither acted as if he lacked the power to shape the course of the conflict. |
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Maria came up with the suggestion that I should get Carah a purse or a bag of some sort, since she always lacked one. |
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Whatever Lewis lacked in intellect, he compensated with hard work, observation, patience, perfectionism, rote learning, and attention to detail. |
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Those pupils who did reach matric lacked laboratories for science and well-trained mathematics teachers. |
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Although they lacked the power and roominess of conventional cars, the first gas-electric models found a niche audience. |
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Yet it lacked the usual dust in the air, the homeliness and lived-in appearance his old lab had. |
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Only the crisp skin was appetizing, while the fish lacked the aroma of the wine. |
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He knew he was bleeding by the wetness seeping down his leg, but he lacked the will to check out his injury. |
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The boy's voice lacked much conviction but worse than that he sounded as if he were about to cry. |
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With grace and ease that he had entirely lacked, she executed a perfect backcast. |
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He was a politician who fatally lacked a grasp of the importance of having a narrative to inspire supporters and enthuse the electorate. |
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She lacked a vision of enjoyment of life's pleasures as obedience to the divine will. |
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The registers we used lacked information on the presentation of the second twin before delivery of the first. |
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The meal was vegetarian and lacked most spices, since certain foods are mild aphrodisiacs and monks supposedly lead celibate lives. |
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A political lightweight, he lacked the muscle or guile to stand up to opponents in the Treasury who opposed rearmament. |
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In 1640, he inherited an army made up of mercenaries who lacked loyalty in the best of times. |
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Examination found that the patient lacked spirit, and had a lusterless face. |
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At the time I was an aspiring scholar who lacked the funds to pay for my senior year at Howard University. |
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Initially they were given loans though most were not doing well as they lacked management skills. |
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Marketing is described as weak and many buildings lacked public toilets, baby changing facilities and refreshment areas. |
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She seems to suggest that the process by which approval was given for the Barbican complex lacked legitimacy. |
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He was a shy and delicate child and always lacked stamina but was exceptionally diligent and serious-minded. |
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Its teeth lacked the usual serrations along the edges found in other two-legged carnivorous dinosaurs. |
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He is a wooden, boring, uninspiring, unconvincing orator, who completely lacked the common touch or any real ability to communicate with voters. |
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Local companies had good technical expertise but lacked management skills and operating capital. |
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The Soviets had exploded their first atomic device in 1949, but they lacked credible delivery systems to threaten the United States directly. |
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It is also a plus that he is left-handed because we have lacked that variety at the top of the order. |
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Serving tea to the Dixon family in Mr Howard's sitting room showed a political touch which the Tories have lacked for the best part of a decade. |
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As a result, the government's purely economic reforms lacked boldness after this dramatic overture. |
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Cosmopolitans, not tough pioneers, they lacked the grit required to face the hardships of frontier life. |
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They were lower class, and lacked the basic human civil rights that the rest of the country had. |
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The Samoans fielded a makeshift line-out, struggled in scrums though they outweighed the divisional side and lacked combination in general play. |
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Yes, my neurological examination technique had lacked precision, and I made a note to sharpen it up. |
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But I must tell you frankly one of the reasons why this investigation was dragging for so long is that we lacked sufficient evidence. |
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All transfectants lacked detectable telomerase activity, showed progressive telomere shortening and ultimately arrested and died. |
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The male rate for completed suicide has always been higher, even when we lacked the technology for quick, easy resuscitation. |
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Empiricists like Locke and rationalists like Newton lacked the rich ontology of Thomas Aquinas and the medieval schoolmen. |
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No bandanna hid his hair, however, shortly cropped and brown, and his eyes lacked the size and shiftiness of the man who had greeted them. |
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This is not to say that the hospital lacked commitment with respect to what was done for him. |
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States could raise armies, but they lacked the resources and organization to turn them into effective instruments of policy. |
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Prisoners often had inadequate clothing to protect themselves from the elements, and most camps lacked running water and heat. |
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We argue that Henry lacked the requisites for effective political leadership. |
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He brings us authority, composure and work rate and a bossing of midfield players we have lacked all of this zany season. |
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The company had tried using thermal bonding with its polyester heat-shrink tubing in the past, but the process lacked repeatability. |
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Many of the old buildings lacked even basic amenities like water supply and restrooms for women. |
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The church, built in 1843, had deteriorated in recent years and lacked basic amenities. |
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The shape of its edge indicates that the maxilla lacked the posterodorsally reflected lappet present in most other mosasaurs. |
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Infants, because they lacked a will developed enough to choose evil, need not be baptized for the remission of sins they had never committed. |
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It was because of this close environmental unity instilled by the nature of their calling that they lacked landward interest. |
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While these maps were seriously outdated and lacked most significant cultural features, the landforms had not changed so much. |
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For years, dive operators and visitors to Phuket have lamented that the area lacked a decent sized wreck. |
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The national champion lacked the intensity of concentration to complement her fighting qualities, and thus it was a struggle for her. |
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While South Africa had large and relatively cheap supplies of coal, it lacked natural oil. |
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Auditors also found that the District at times lacked documentation to indicate whether spending was done for legitimate school purposes. |
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April and May brought daily news reports quoting U.S. military officers saying they lacked the manpower to do their jobs. |
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She was condemned on her word alone without proof and lacked defense counsel. |
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For all her power, he felt she lacked wisdom and judgement, and it was past time she learned her place. |
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Religious critics lacked fervor and moral authority, while surviving Populist and Progressive skeptics were dismissed as killjoys or cranks. |
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The Blues' passing was smooth and cultured, but was too often one-paced and they lacked a killer instinct in attack. |
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Though the porch was, thankfully, enclosed, its windowed walls lacked the insulation necessary to keep out the blistering December air. |
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But it always lacked focus, initially positioning itself as a intelligent agent software and handheld operating system developer. |
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In the last game against Brisbane he lacked match fitness and failed to make a contribution. |
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The grand pas de deux was danced in white with red trim and while Kitri's costume was beautiful the stiff tutu lacked grace. |
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And would one's meal be as enjoyable if the restaurant lacked a staff whose unflagging charm turns what could be a madhouse into a many-splendored thing? |
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My mom started teaching me to read at age three, and I never lacked for books and magazines and there were no restrictions on what I was allowed to read. |
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I personally lacked the sexual education and social networking skills that savvy sex-industry professionals rely on. |
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But what it lacked in mischief it made up in manifest sincerity. |
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The plaintiffs charged that the law burdened low-income Indianans and others who lacked access to ids. |
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Ike was a nice guy, and a hard worker, but he, too, lacked strategic vision. |
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Kalman studied literature and wanted to be a writer, but thought she lacked talent. |
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He inherited standards of economy in design and of scrupulous execution from Domenico Veneziano and Fra Angelico, though he lacked the imaginative powers of either. |
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Having no tenure, and his future career being at the sufferance of her political enemies, objectively he lacked independence. |
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The committee also said that many projects lacked proper supervision from mid-managers, and that quality standards were often replaced with self-indulgence. |
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The bass is much deeper and richer, the timpani have been brought forth from the orchestral fabric, and the whole thing now has a presence, a pulse that it lacked before. |
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The defence secretary, whose department was, for reasons which still seem unfathomable, allowed to run what counted for peace as well as the war, lacked this messianic zeal. |
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The truck was decades old, and it lacked a tailgate so the people in back were crammed together to avoid falling out. |
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Otherwise lacked discrete gross lesion, and the pulmonary vasculature was without note. |
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He lacked the mental toughness necessary to compete at the highest level. |
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Lovell said the military lacked any direction from Washington that evening. |
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The issue lacked the cohesion achieved by Gutierrez's minimalist designs. |
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It was a tense matchup that made up in suspense for what it lacked in aesthetics. |
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What the diatribe lacked in grammatical proficiency, it made up for in drama. |
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Those episodes were great but they lacked some of the great things that happen when you let arcs grow. |
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The dean told him face to face that Africans lacked the innate skills necessary to become a barrister. |
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The 2014 election was a wipeout, progressives say, because Democrats lacked a bold economic message to inspire voters. |
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The unit had to lay off staff, cut its caseload, and lacked the funds to take on statewide corruption cases. |
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We were painfully aware that the poorest of the poor, such as washerwomen and casual labourers, were still unable to borrow, because they lacked enterprises. |
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He was no teacher, and he lacked the tact required in getting along with his classes. |
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His voice wasn't weak, but it lacked its trademark strength and energy. |
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Moscow officials insist that the hospitals listed for closure lacked professional services and often stayed half empty. |
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Unfortunately, Vermeulen lacked an air of cogency, most likely due to nerves, and was not as convincing. |
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Federal were far from home and hosed however as their batting line up lacked the regular faces, Graham and Michael Smith, Tom Clemens and Brendan Martin. |
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But whatever they lacked in smarts, they made up for in looks. |
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But that was so yesterday, much like his contention that he lacked the power to unilaterally confer amnesty. |
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If the jury decided that James lacked malice aforethought, he could still be found guilty of involuntary manslaughter, i.e., unlawful killing without malice aforethought. |
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What Pons lacked in brilliance, he made up for in aggression and energy. |
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There was something raw and elemental about Dorset's windswept landscape that I'd missed, and which I needed, if only to remind myself what the city lacked. |
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Since the late 1980s, most private kindergartens in Hong Kong have lacked government funding and have been able to afford only older, less powerful computers. |
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But though he was brave, and active in pushing through the re-equipment of his forces by the Americans, Giraud was arrogant and lacked any political sense. |
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Early cars lacked such refinements as a fuel gauge, but they did come with the tiny, wrap-around windscreen that was as cool as a pair of Ray-Ban Wayfarers. |
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The light pastel lacquer and subtly spaced designs lacked the finesse of Venetian lacquer, but the rendering of flowers and birds was worthy of an easel painting. |
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Granted, hard-core globalization critics were skeptical from the start because the Compact lacked a rigorous system for monitoring corporate behavior and punishing laggards. |
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Their garb lent them either the gravitas the Republican bench has previously lacked, or the doleful aspect of ushers at a funeral. |
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The Housing Executive lacked sufficient storage space or removal vans. |
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She apparently saw her boss, despite his egomania and narcissism, as the supportive father figure that she lacked in real life. |
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But with the iron self-discipline typical of anorexics, she kept cutting back her food intake until she weighed just over 39 kg and lacked the energy to move. |
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Growing up without a father figure, I was very shy and lacked self-confidence. |
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Beethoven's six Gellert lieder were hobbled by bad intonation, while the cautious note-to-note rendition of Wagner's Wesendonk songs lacked any sense of their sensuous wonder. |
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Southern generals ordered rails torn up, bridges burned, and lacked the foresight to commandeer locomotives and rolling stock to other lines rather than destroying them. |
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I have, however, dined with companions who lacked table manners. |
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She lacked tact and the finesse it took to write something beautiful. |
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Certain companies which aimed at making a fast buck in the festival market produced albums in haste, due to which the songs lacked lyrical and musical quality. |
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Children of authoritarian parents lacked social skills with their peers. |
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The Luftwaffe thus lacked a cadre of staff officers to set up, man, and pass on experience. |
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As the early Chancellors lacked formal legal training and showed little regard for precedent, their decisions were often widely diverse. |
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Although the Britons outnumbered the Romans greatly, they lacked the superior discipline and tactics that won the Romans a decisive victory. |
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Unfortunately, Crawfurd's courts also lacked legal foundation, and he had no legal powers over Europeans in Singapore. |
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The Emperor appointed assistants and advisers, but the state lacked many institutions, such as a centrally planned budget. |
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The Germans lacked the trained pilots, the effective fighter aircraft, and the heavy bombers that would have been needed. |
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By the late 1980s, it was the poorest country in Europe, and still lacked sewerage, piped water, and piped gas. |
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Early British marine radar, working in the metric bands, lacked target discrimination and range. |
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It should be noted, however, that socialist legality itself still lacked features associated with Western jurisprudence. |
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Campbell initially refused to redistribute ministerial portfolios on the sole advice of the premier, who lacked the confidence of his cabinet. |
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There was a strong demand for the yarn which Crompton was making at Hall i' th' Wood but he lacked the means to take out a patent. |
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At this stage of the war, the Allies lacked the means and tactical ability to overcome strongly constructed Japanese bunkers. |
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Evans had influential backers and political allies, but lacked social graces and was disliked by many of his peers. |
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As with most agricultural tools, flails were often used as weapons by farmers who may have lacked better weapons. |
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It held possession of the disputed Ohio territory but lacked the strength to launch an attack on the more populous British coastal colonies. |
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They were provided mainly with unreliable captured equipment and lacked motorised transport. |
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This experience led Wesley to believe that the Moravians possessed an inner strength which he lacked. |
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Since the end of World War II, West Germany had been occupied by Allied forces and lacked its own means of defense. |
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The Americans lacked provisions, and eventually destroyed the Fort Erie and retreated across the Niagara. |
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Incorporated into the Han Feizi and The Art of War, he nonetheless lacked a recognizable group of followers. |
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They said that Hatton lacked authority in his jab and his ringcraft but they never cast a shadow over his fighting heart. |
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Stapleton had taken Sir Henry's old boot because the new, unworn boot lacked his scent. |
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The author's novels from her salad years lacked the sophistication and depth of her later works. |
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The act was clean and well-rehearsed, but the performers lacked the showmanship that would have made it great. |
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A major problem for the team from the start was that wreck sites in the UK lacked any legal protection from plunderers and treasure hunters. |
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Even the best Afghan units lacked training, discipline and adequate reinforcements. |
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Meanwhile, Allan Border claimed modern cricketers were so mollycoddled they lacked the ability to think for themselves, the report added. |
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After the destruction of Plymouth and disruption of the economy, more than half of the population left the island, which also lacked housing. |
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The Short Titles Act 1892, and its replacement the Short Titles Act 1896, gave short titles to many Acts which previously lacked them. |
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He enjoyed mimicry and popular entertainment, lacked a clear, specific sense of what he wanted to become, and yet knew he wanted fame. |
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It was a strangely quiet, featureless day in which two welrganised batsmen cashed in their chips against anatta ck that lacked inspiration. |
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But the Beats, despite their appealing cult of drugs and Whitmanian sincerity, lacked the cool elegance Lou venerated. |
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He succeeded in marching to the Sassanid capital of Ctesiphon, but lacked adequate supplies for an assault. |
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Corporatists argued that the modern capitalist economy lacked leadership and direction. |
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The Thomas family lived on a tiny income and lacked the comforts of modern life, largely through their own choice. |
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Dietrich and Lenya lacked a number of singerly virtues, but their strengths lay in a kind of extramusical quality of feeling and experience. |
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We lacked overall grip, consistency, there was a bit of understeer, it was a poor ride, so a very difficult day. |
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Matilda and Geoffrey suspected that they lacked genuine support in England. |
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England again lacked any single head of state during several months of conflict between Fleetwood's party and that of George Monck. |
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He wrote his autobiography in Welsh, but said he lacked the necessary grasp of the language to employ it in his poems. |
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Proganochelys lacked the ability to pull its head into its shell, had a long neck, and had a long, spiked tail ending in a club. |
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Since North Carolina lacked the infrastructure to try pirates, Mary and three others were sent to Williamsburg. |
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The Arawaks attempted to fight back against Columbus's men but lacked their armor, guns, swords, and horses. |
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Yet there is a softness in some of these moments that Borat lacked. |
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This philosophy was impractical as Bomber Command lacked the technology and equipment and needed several years to develop it. |
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The fibrous septae separating the tubules were pauci-cellular and lacked the appearance of ovarian stroma. |
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We were out 3-4 months in our machine shop, and we lacked the machining capacity to meet our needs. |
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Some primitive snakes are known to have possessed hindlimbs, but their pelvic bones lacked a direct connection to the vertebrae. |
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Vincent, the tiny East Carribean island, lacked the screw-in cleats necessary for better footing on a slick surface. |
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The plan did not come to fruition, with government officials concluding that the organisation lacked the experience necessary to be viable. |
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Through the Cicero affair, the Germans obtained documents containing references to Overlord, but these documents lacked all detail. |
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Since the entry of France and Spain into the war, the British lacked the necessary ships to match their opponents' every move. |
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Most French tanks also lacked radio, orders between infantry units were typically passed by telephone or verbally. |
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But for most of the Peninsular War, where he earned his fame, his troops lacked the numbers for an attack. |
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It confers protection under the law to those who have lacked it. |
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The RAF lacked aircraft large enough to transport Chinooks and so the helicopter crews flew themselves to Freetown. |
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The bun was light, aromatic and lacked the stodginess generally associated with doughy buns. |
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As brilliant as he was, Lacan lacked certain social skills, such as speaking even once to his lecture stenotypist in twelve years. |
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Ms. Amero and her supporters said the computer lacked a firewall or antispyware protections to prevent inappropriate pop-ups. |
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It was noted in classical times that Ovid's work lacked the gravitas possessed by traditional epic poetry. |
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He kept the biggest estates, and where he lacked troops to overawe the natives he evicted the natives and made a game reserve. |
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The South also lacked the means to construct a naval fleet capable of taking on the Union Navy on even terms. |
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In particular, the US lacked a liquid market in trade acceptances, the instrument used to finance imports and exports. |
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The court ruled she lacked the maturity to make her own medical decisions. |
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That said, the veep lacked a certain snap, crackle, and pop. |
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The British designs were armed like their heavier dreadnought cousins, but deliberately lacked armor to save weight in order to improve speed. |
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He acknowledged the theories but his voice lacked conviction. |
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Unlike other televangelists, the senior Schuller's message lacked fire-and-brimstone condemnations or conservative political baggage. |
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Although they lacked a true spine, they possessed notochords which allowed them to be more agile than their invertebrate counterparts. |
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It was as impractical as a sports car, as small as a sports car, and lacked the power and charisma of a sports car. |
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The continued English hold on Calais however depended on expensively maintained fortifications, as the town lacked any natural defences. |
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All three apparently lacked tentacles but had between 24 and 80 comb rows, far more than the 8 typical of living species. |
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It was a bit crispy around the edges, dry in the middle and just lacked the taste and sponginess that you would expect. |
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A similar situation occurred during the 1960s, when composers were scarce and musicals lacked vibrancy and entertainment value. |
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With the decline of Marxism and laborist perspectives since the late 80s, the historical study of leisure has lacked a trajectory. |
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In monocytic tumors, the neoplastic cells lacked cytoplasmic granules and had either oval or reniform nuclei. |
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He twice advanced to within a day's march of Jerusalem before judging that he lacked the resources to successfully capture the city. |
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Bede is that he lacked the knowledge of how to compose the lyrics to songs. |
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Published in 1930, it deals with the struggle that ensues when one who has lacked faith acquires it. |
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But we lacked the collector's instinct that impels a true birder to travel hundreds of miles just to add a bluefaced booby to his life list. |
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For most of its existence the company lacked a permanent base in Cardiff, but in 2004 it moved into the new Wales Millennium Centre, Cardiff Bay. |
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The 1962 Pilkington Report on the future of broadcasting noticed this, and that ITV lacked any serious programming. |
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He complained that the English language lacked structure and argued in support of the dictionary. |
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His theology and spirituality lacked balance and stability, and as a result he ended his life outside the great church in a Montanist sect. |
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When they returned, they carried diminished founder populations that lacked many whole families of organisms. |
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The Welsh cloth makers, who lacked capital, produced poor quality drapery for which there was relatively low demand. |
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The King's tomb rapidly became a popular site for visitors, probably encouraged by the local monks, who lacked an existing pilgrimage attraction. |
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Although six battalions had been trained, the SLA still lacked many combat support functions as well as command and control capabilities. |
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His attorney claimed the court lacked jurisdiction in this matter. |
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As those systems lacked the range to attack major Soviet targets, Polaris was developed to increase the level of nuclear deterrence. |
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All of these early vertebrates lacked jaws in the common sense and relied on filter feeding close to the seabed. |
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Soils of dry sand prairie communities lacked a dark A horizon, and the grasses, most of which were bunchgrasses, rarely exceeded 1 m in height. |
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As usual, Elizabeth lacked control over her commanders once they were abroad. |
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Armed conflict was avoided because York lacked aristocratic support and was forced to swear allegiance to Henry. |
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Under ecclesiastical law, Bishop Cauchon lacked jurisdiction over the case. |
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He collected Brooke Bond tea cards about space, owned a telescope and wanted to be an astronomer but lacked the necessary mathematical skills. |
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Most apartments in Rome lacked kitchens, though a charcoal brazier could be used for rudimentary cookery. |
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The common people who lacked this access could manifest their general approval or displeasure as a group at the games held in large venues. |
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Most of the money went to developing nations such as Russia that lacked the capital or technical knowledge to industrialize on their own. |
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However it was obvious that radical economies would be necessary, and the IoWR lacked any reserve fund to pay for renewals. |
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Not religious himself, he insisted that Darwin's conclusions lacked empirical foundation. |
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Most of these lacked combat experience, both with regard to Germanic fighters, and under the prevalent local conditions. |
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Apparently, they lacked a reserve, and the Romans followed their established practice of two units forward to one back. |
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Their officers lacked the means to punish an entire division, and harsh measures were not immediately implemented. |
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The Germans were unprepared for the level of their success and lacked sufficient reserves to exploit the opening. |
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Kievan society lacked the class institutions and autonomous towns that were typical of Western European feudalism. |
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Livy believed that there had been a moral decline in Rome, and he lacked the confidence that Augustus could reverse it. |
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As early as 132 BCE references suggest that the Ketuvim was starting to take shape, although it lacked a formal title. |
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However, it lacked the skeptical and critical spirit of the European Enlightenment. |
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Resin composites used at that time in anterior build-ups lacked color stability, polishability and physical properties. |
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The Mongol forces did not chase the fleeing Japanese into an area about which they lacked reliable intelligence. |
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As such, they lacked the fuchuan's raised platforms or extended planks used for battle. |
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The hybrid foals lacked a dewlap and resembled the plains zebra apart from their larger ears and their hindquarters pattern. |
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If the revolt had been led by slaves, they would have lacked the necessary resources to combat the Abbasid government for as long as they did. |
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Until 2002, Sierra Leone lacked a forest management system because of the civil war that caused tens of thousands of deaths. |
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The Confederation Congress could make decisions, but lacked enforcement powers. |
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There was talk in the past that ERP systems were legacy, lacked the agility and flexibility, and did not support interoperability. |
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The natives lacked immunity to these new diseases and died in great numbers in epidemics. |
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The Inca Empire was unique in that it lacked many features associated with civilization in the Old World. |
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They lacked animals to ride and draft animals that could pull wagons and plows. |
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All these neighbors lacked a key resource that Byzantium had taken over from Rome, namely a formalized legal structure. |
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The Romans, having concluded that they lacked sufficient numbers to defend the settlement, evacuated and abandoned Londinium. |
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After the decline of Chichen Itza, the Maya region lacked a dominant power until the rise of the city of Mayapan in the 12th century. |
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But Philip III and Lerma lacked the ability to make any meaningful change in the country's foreign policy. |
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However, by the time this was achieved the Luftwaffe lacked the fuel and trained pilots to make this achievement worth while. |
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These early peoples lacked a writing system, and made works on perishable materials, so few records of them exist from this time. |
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The Protestant movement had been energetic, but lacked central organizational direction. |
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His toe hurt, he was heavy, he lacked his old explosiveness, he felt put upon by everyone. |
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They rejected the authority of the British Parliament to tax them because they lacked representation in Parliament. |
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Labaree also wrote that Loyalists were pessimists who lacked the confidence in the future displayed by the Patriots. |
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Often, these rural priests did not know Latin and lacked opportunities for proper theological training. |
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Arsenal lacked urgency and inspiration until shortly before half-time, Wheater's block denying Van Persie from close range before Walcott drilled wide. |
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In the Leviathan, Hobbes could only represent the pre-civil as the anti-civil, as that which lacked in every respect what was considered important in civil society. |
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The ideal net work sought was one which contained only monosulfidic crosslings and lacked modification of the rubber chains by cyclic sulfide groups. |
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He not only was very good at his job, he also was an old soldier and an accomplished dog robber, which.meant that his crew never lacked for any necessary equipment. |
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The hosts initially looked like they lacked a spring in their step, but fears of further agony evaporated in the seventh minute with a goal of typical Arsenal quality. |
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This law was enforced only in the daytime, it is presumed because one then lacked the excuse of darkness for injuring another by careless waste disposal. |
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Spain lacked the wealth and the interest to develop an extensive economic infrastructure in its African colonies during the first half of the 20th century. |
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He had subdued the organised military might of the Hebrides, but he and his immediate successors lacked the will or ability to provide an alternative form of governance. |
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The fact that Cromwell lacked military credentials grated with men who had fought on the battlefields of the English Civil War to secure their nation's liberties. |
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In 2002, the former Conservative MP Roger Knapman was elected UKIP leader, bringing with him the experience of mainstream politics that the party had lacked. |
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The Mark I showed no influence from the Analytical Engine and lacked the Analytical Engine's most prescient architectural feature, conditional branching. |
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The cylinder type lacked wheels, and instead the vacuum cleaner floated on its exhaust, operating as a hovercraft, although this is not true of the earliest models. |
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This series was shorter and lacked many features of The Rambler. |
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His mother interfered with his studies, often withdrawing him from school, with the result that he lacked discipline and his classical studies were neglected. |
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One of the prosecutors in the trial of some of the Clacton brawlers argued that mods and rockers were youths with no serious views, who lacked respect for law and order. |
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There were some criticisms of the 2002 festival that it lacked atmosphere, because of the reduced number of people, which reflected the smaller numbers jumping the fence. |
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Spike Milligan later noted that Sellers was very proficient on the drums and might have remained a jazz drummer, had he lacked his skills in mimicry and improvisation. |
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The League lacked its own armed force and depended on the Great Powers to enforce its resolutions, keep to its economic sanctions, or provide an army when needed. |
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The League of Nations lacked an armed force of its own and depended on the Great Powers to enforce its resolutions, which they were very unwilling to do. |
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This advantage in manpower was vital in overpowering the crews of larger vessels, which themselves often lacked sufficient crewmembers to put up a strong defence. |
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When the war began, the 13 colonies lacked a professional army or navy. |
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Furthermore, despite the fact that at its height, the British fielded some 56,000 men in the colonies exclusive of mercenaries and militia, they lacked sufficient numbers. |
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