Some states lacked the resources to pay.

Perhaps the Government lacked the capacity to do so.

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

But political leadership was sorely lacking.

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

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

Africa needed capital, but lacked savings.

Those small operations also lacked a common internal design.

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

Iran lacked an independent judiciary, basic press freedoms, and civil society organizations.

From the outset of the Syrian conflict, the US and its European allies have lacked a strategy. Is their goal to end the civil war or bring about regime change?

Some recent sales of prospecting rights in Africa have been spectacularly deficient in terms of transparency and competition.

The activities of the international community in this context have not been conducted in an efficient manner over the past years.

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

Palestine lacked a deep water seaport until 1933 when one was built at Haifa.

Of course, marriage will never again be as stable or predictable as when women lacked alternatives.

I was born in Indonesia in the early 1950 s, a time when most families in my country lacked access to health care.

From now on, she will require a trait that she has lacked so far leadership and decision making skills.

They are grievously short of funds.

The problem for post WWII Europe, mired in depression and inflation, was that it lacked foreign reserves, which meant that trade carried a high opportunity cost. To facilitate trade without requiring payment after each transaction, the Organization for European Economic Cooperation created the European Payments Union in 1950.

They have always been imperfect, and today their flaws are visible in new ways.

It turned out that semiconductors were being fitted onto circuit boards in a mindless, primitive fashion, whereas potato chips were being produced through a highly automated process (which is how Pringles chips rest on each other perfectly).

And, while he was technically the commander in chief of the Palestinian forces, these forces lacked the will to stand up to Hamas s growing power.

Many of these companies lacked a viable or attractive exit for their founders as they were too small to be taken public and the founders were reluctant to sell out to competitors and so a sale to a financial buyer could prove attractive.

With few notable exceptions, such as US Ambassador to Brazil Tom Shannon, US diplomacy has lacked a strategic vision for Latin America.

In fact, it was largely a necessary concession to Germany s Constitutional Court, which had argued that the bailout measures lacked a proper legal basis.

These countries, once models of economic hope and democratic promise in Latin America, have become examples of democracies without legitimacy or credibility.

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

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.

One inspection found a significant number of stations unoccupied and little coordination in scientific research, even among neighbouring stations, in the Antarctic Peninsula.

What has been missing, however, are energetic extension workers, brimming with pride in their own people and passion for new approaches.

Since then, a consensus has emerged in favor of the 1958 constitutional structure, because it has provided France with the strong executive it had always lacked.

Access to justice for women is lacking.

The financial crisis has not helped improve the image of globalization, which has long been deeply unpopular among ordinary voters in most of the world s advanced countries.

For too long, the international community's efforts at peacebuilding, in Africa as elsewhere, have been marked by piecemeal and uncoordinated interventions that often lack national ownership.

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.