The current American initiative sounds reasonable, but it is essentially unrealistic.

Of course, it may be that humanity has always been short on critical thinking.

And, once again, these new urban developments have few of the networks that would make them a habitat.

In any event, China s power may be vast and rapidly growing, but it lacks the ability to compel.

They are grievously short of funds.

First, it lacks content it is unclear what any eventual Bretton Woods II discussions will be about.

Similarly, in World War II, Japan feared for the stability of its foreign supplies of oil and other natural resources. Will similar tensions arise between resource challenged China (where even water scarcity is a problem) and the West?

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

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

They lack organization and strategy.

They also lack a vibrant civil society.

It also lacks any pigmentation in its skin.

The police however lacked basic equipment.

Four Member States indicated that they may lack the necessary legislation, and seven have not provided any information on this point.

However, within the mining sector, word appears to have spread that the Government lacks the capacity, and UNMIL lacks the mandate, to enforce such a policy.

True, passage of this resolution might give Palestine some standing that it now lacks to seek prosecutions in the International Criminal Court for alleged violations of international law.

Access to justice for women is lacking.

Some states lacked the resources to pay.

This practice is also unwise.

I believe that such views lack historical perspective.

The state of Palestine would lack legitimacy among Palestinians themselves.

It lacks support at home and respect abroad.

Don't love sleep, lest you come to poverty. Open your eyes, and you shall be satisfied with bread.

Love not sleep, lest thou come to poverty open thine eyes, and thou shalt be satisfied with bread.

Unfortunately, the process lacks the necessary transparency and credibility.

Municipalities are lacking qualified solid waste managers.

Bosnia and Herzegovina still lacked a coherent agricultural policy.

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

Moreover, the measures as whole usually lack visibility.

Perhaps the Government lacked the capacity to do so.

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.

Individuals usually lack flagella, but they are present in male gametes of the centric diatoms and have the usual heterokont structure, except they lack the hairs (mastigonemes) characteristic in other groups.

But this very political strength is precisely what both the Israeli and Palestinian governments lack.

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

But political leadership was sorely lacking.

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.

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

However, Palestinian security services lacked equipment, ammunition and adequate means of communication.

Proposals to address that matter continue to lack consensus.

Furthermore, some legal instruments lack universality.