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

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

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

They are grievously short of funds.

Unfortunately, Israel is missing a coherent regional strategy.

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

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.

Many young people live in insecurity and fear the future.

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.

Access to justice for women is lacking.

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.

America, by contrast, seems to have an abundance of all the things Europe lacks.

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.

In the meantime, the public should be cautious of politicians claims that deploying today s inefficient, expensive technology will result in windfall benefits at no cost.

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

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.

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

Clearly, Turkey s political institutions lack adequate safeguards.

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

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.

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.