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.

Access to justice for women is lacking.

Unfortunately, Israel is missing a coherent regional strategy.

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.

Moreover, the measures as whole usually lack visibility.

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

Many young people live in insecurity and fear the future.

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

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.

But they lack the sensitivity to provide adequate diagnostic information for many health conditions.

The US lacks the means and the political consensus to take on much more in the way of global responsibility.

The continent lacks the financial resources needed to generate the requisite levels of growth to reduce poverty.

Fourth, many cash strapped developing countries fear that social safety nets, once put in place, may become fiscally unsustainable, owing to a sudden loss of export revenue, poor harvests, or sharp increases in prices for food imports.

Simple propaganda lacks credibility and thus is counterproductive.

Africa needed capital, but lacked savings.

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

Clearly, Turkey s political institutions lack adequate safeguards.

In many countries and regions the capacity and capability to participate fully in such a programme is lacking.

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 it is not surprising coming from a government that lacks any coherent concept of Japan s national security.

Vertebrates make up about 4 of all described animal species the rest are invertebrates, which lack backbones.

Mice lacking this protein eat until they are four times their normal size.

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

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.

He rightly believed that reducing the money supply would have been too blunt an instrument to use.

Unfortunately, such programs largely lack the visibility and influence needed to shape educational reform.

The United Nations had the power to resolve the situation, but apparently the determination to go to the next level was lacking.

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.