It also lacks any pigmentation in its skin.

The court considered that the complainant's allegations lacked any justification .

There were thoughtful reports, but they lacked any political traction.

The first, in the 1970 s, deregulated commissions paid to stockbrokers.

India is not about to become a second China it lacks both the means and the ambition.

What China lacked was not demand for consumption goods, but a supply of high quality financial assets.

Access to justice for women is lacking.

Likewise, the mother of two Timothy syndrome patients also carried the mutation but lacked any obvious phenotype.

They lack organization and strategy.

They also lack a vibrant civil society.

The police however lacked basic equipment.

Moreover, the measures as whole usually lack visibility.

Current owners will resist to the end any dilution of their control and no national authority is likely to admit that their national champions lack a plausible path to financial viability.

Indeed, European unity is indivisible when one nation is ostracized, all are not free.

That is, they lack confidence in their ability to do their part to save the sick man of the global economy that Europe has become.

But it cannot rely only on some local economic breakthrough without any broader cultural and strategic underpinning.

One reason these phrases gain wide acceptance is their lack of clear definition.

But political leadership was sorely lacking.

Some states lacked the resources to pay.

This practice is also unwise.

The state of Palestine would lack legitimacy among Palestinians themselves.

It lacks support at home and respect abroad.

Unfortunately, the process lacks the necessary transparency and credibility.

Municipalities are lacking qualified solid waste managers.

The border units are not well equipped or resourced, however.

Perhaps the Government lacked the capacity to do so.

It has an excellent central bank. But it lacks the other elements of a proper monetary union.

Former spies now sit atop the commanding heights of Russia s energy centric economy, but their role is not all that different from what it was in Soviet days.

Their argument is that the Russian state, as now constituted, lacks any real incentive to reform its own or Russians bad economic habits.

Some aid is utilized for humanitarian purposes, that is, to relieve suffering in cases in which the recipient Governments lack the needed resources.

Africa needed capital, but lacked savings.

After all, banks remain deeply unpopular in all developed countries.

Unfortunately, Israel is missing a coherent regional strategy.

Clearly, Turkey s political institutions lack adequate safeguards.

Greece thus lacked a mechanism to negotiate a social compact to cut wages, pensions, and other obligations in an equitable way.

These initial studies lacked a clearly articulated conceptual framework, however, and none of the measures developed were based on a theoretical definition of psychological sense of community.

It also lacks the means to compel others to follow its lead.

It is clear that modern Russia lacks global status in the Soviet sense.

Even today, donor governments aid efforts are poorly directed.

Allegations that the scheme lacks nutritional value have been disproved.

We are small countries, with small economies that lack fiscal diversity.

Proposals to address that matter continue to lack consensus.

Furthermore, some legal instruments lack universality.

Similarly, NATO s Parliamentary Assembly has announced preparations for NATO accession by such countries as Croatia, Macedonia, and even Albania, all of which fall short of the alliance s traditional membership criteria.

They are grievously short of funds.