Tom missed Mary.

The young engineer lacked experience.

Clearly, that was lacking.

Of course, the building lacked poetry.

I'd have noticed if anything were missing.

To be perfect she lacked just one defect.

No flexibility existed within either bloc for smaller groups of members to deploy alliance assets.

LONDON Judged by its outcome, Britain s general election lacked suspense and surprise.

She liked that way of communicating with him, which had an elegance and secrecy absent in their personal interviews.

The Liberal Party maintained that everything in Russia was bad, and it was a fact that Oblonsky had many debts and decidedly too little money.

Suddenly, even remote schools can connect to the Internet and to other schools through a solar panel, low cost computers, and wireless access. A school that lacked even rudimentary supplies suddenly can have access to the same global store of information as any other place in the world.

A school that lacked even rudimentary supplies suddenly can have access to the same global store of information as any other place in the world.

The world also wanted to see the US retaking the high road in reinforcing business ethics and integrity so lacking under the last administration.

Meaning to be funny often landed him in a mess because, like his father, he lacked the reassuring charm necessary to temper the cruelty that lurked in jokes.

There was no scullery maid. Of the nine cows some, according to the dairymaids, were about to calve, others had calved for the first time, some were too old, and the rest were difficult to milk, so there was no butter and scarcely enough milk even for the children.

Kamla s much anticipated re shovelling of the Cabinet yesterday, went far beyond my expectations, and yet fell short of it in some ways.

Another reason why she could not be attractive to men was because she lacked that of which Kitty had too much a restrained flame of vitality and consciousness of her own attractiveness.

Dolly could not be quiet with six children, of whom one would fall ill, another be in danger of falling ill, a third be in want of something, a fourth show symptoms of something bad in his disposition, etc., etc.

There is the belief it can provide Japanese youth with a moral compass that has been lacking since occupation authorities divested the Japanese emperor of his power following World War II.

Dwight Eisenhower ran an efficiently organized presidency that some at the time believed lacked leadership, but historians later discovered his hidden hand behind most important decisions.

But now it appears that, despite all this, we still have not had enough central planning in finance. For, even as the central banking authority administered the price of liquidity, the price of risk was left to the tender mercies of the market.

She came to her senses for a moment, and knew that the lean peasant in the long nankin coat with a button missing who had come into the compartment was the carriage stoker and was looking at the thermometer, and that the wind and snow rushed in when he opened the door but afterwards everything again became confused...

Another thing which made Constantine Levin feel his brother's presence inconvenient was that, in the country, especially during the summer, while Levin was always busy with the farm and the long summer days were too short for doing all that had to be done, Koznyshev was resting.