Human resources were available but they lacked training and they lacked equipment.

They lacked for nothing, except a school.

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

They lacked hearing, and what could we do for them?

It died in large part because it lacked constituent buy in it lacked stakeholder traction.

It died, in large part, because it lacked constituent buy in it lacked stakeholder traction.

You said you lacked personnel,

If investors in derivatives, repos, and credit default swaps lacked favored treatment, they would behave differently.

Africa needed capital, but lacked savings.

The police however lacked basic equipment.

The American colonists had long believed that they were not subject to taxes imposed by legislature in which they lacked representation.

Some states lacked the resources to pay.

It's no excuse. I simply lacked courage.

The danger was that most developing countries would be bypassed, since they lacked the technology, training and resources.

More than two million people were dying from tuberculosis, because they lacked access to low cost, first line treatment.

While previous prime ministers like Menachem Begin and Yitzhak Shamir were not averse to lecturing, they lacked strategic cunning.

They felt the programme lacked strategic focus and that the resources were spread too thinly over too many activities.

The reflection of the fire lent a kind of red animation to his big spectacles they had lacked hitherto.

American Hiram Paulding adds that Bolívar expressed that the Peruvians were cowards and that, as people, they lacked masculine virtues.

Thirteen required agencies or institutions had not been fully established, in most cases because they lacked directors or management boards.

Those small operations also lacked a common internal design.

Bosnia and Herzegovina still lacked a coherent agricultural policy.

Perhaps the Government lacked the capacity to do so.

GCFII lacked a cohesive framework and needed more focus.

I lacked the courage to tell you the truth.

They were of the opinion that the concept lacked legal clarity and that its interpretation depended on too many external factors.

Although several countries had been judged to have the capacity to pay, in fact they lacked the ability to do so.

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

41. Developing countries lacked the resources for poverty alleviation programmes.

The developing countries, however, lacked the necessary resources and technology.

However, since the prosecutor lacked evidence, he's given you prejudice.

Consciously it lacked the power to operate the great machine.. .

Condemned to short contracts and temporary work, they lacked job security since they were the last to be hired, they were the first to be let go at the next downturn.

Yes, forty years you sustained them in the wilderness. They lacked nothing. Their clothes didn't grow old, and their feet didn't swell.

We sent economists in the Soviet Union with privatization plans when it broke up, and what they really lacked was social trust.

80 of medical workers claimed that they lacked specific training to counsel victims of violence and they also did not know where to refer the victims for help.

The second issue concerned the situation of developing countries and the difficulties they faced in complying with their obligations because they lacked the necessary financial and technical means.

And he said unto them, When I sent you without purse, and scrip, and shoes, lacked ye any thing? And they said, Nothing.

Some of them have even been forced to surrender the deeds to their land because they lacked the cash to pay their ransoms.

Although many peace initiatives were put forward during the 1970s and 1980s in an attempt to address the Arab Israeli conflict, Syria objected to those initiatives only because the solutions they proposed lacked comprehensiveness and because they ignored participation by the Palestinians and lacked the guarantees that would safeguard their national rights.

(c) Procurement Service staff lacked sufficient professional development support and training

It also lacked virtually all medicines, in particular antibiotics and analgesics.

They did not benefit from oil revenues from their ancestral land, and lacked basic services such as electricity, telephones, schools, hospitals and health clinics.

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

Much of this discussion lacked clarity, as such discussions tend to do.