Africa needed capital, but lacked savings.

Some, perhaps many, small businesses are, however, in a very different position strapped for funds, they can t grow, and many are being forced to contract.

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

Lacking any source of adequate funds, they revived an 1864 Haitian law, discovered by Butler, requiring peasants to perform labor on local roads in lieu of paying a road tax.

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

Access to justice for women is lacking.

They lack organization and strategy.

They also lack a vibrant civil society.

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The police however lacked basic equipment.

Moreover, the measures as whole usually lack visibility.

We acknowledge that there is now a broad consensus that such assistance has been compromised by a number of factors that have fuelled the perception that Africa lacks the capacity to absorb and effectively use increased funds.

While there has been a slight increase in the absorptive capacity of the operating and development budgets, the Government still lacks the capacity to meet donor requirements for the project documents and feasibility studies that are necessary for the release of donor funds.

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.

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.

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.

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

Proposals to address that matter continue to lack consensus.

Furthermore, some legal instruments lack universality.

To be sure, the fact that companies are holding on to their cash, rather than paying it out in dividends, signals that they expect investment opportunities to return a far more positive situation than in Japan, for example, where companies lack cash to invest.

Meanwhile, the credit crunch in the eurozone periphery is intensifying thanks to the ECB long term cheap loans, banks there don t have a liquidity problem now, but they do have a massive capital shortage.

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.

Most pharmaceutical companies, for example, lack effective innovation supply chains.

YAROSLAVL Russia is said by many to lack a civil society.

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

Those small operations also lacked a common internal design.

Environment authorities lack reliable information on solid waste management issues.

Hence, the import of Chinese labor into a continent not lacking in able bodied workers.

Simple propaganda lacks credibility and thus is counterproductive.

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