It says its humanitarian efforts are being hampered by lack of funds.

VOA: standard.2009.07.03

The dietary laws are presented by the priests not as a sensible way to avoid various diseases that are caused by the lack of refrigeration in the desert.

饮食教规并不是被祭司们,并不是作为一个规避疾病的方法出现的,这些疾病是由于沙漠地区缺水造成的。

耶鲁公开课 - 旧约导论课程节选

Like the Russian formalists--and in a way like the New Critics -talking about their "academic" colleagues, Saussure is vexed by the messiness and lack of system in the study of linguistics.

这一点和形式主义者，新批评论者,这些学院派的人们很相像，索绪尔对语言学的杂乱,和无章感到恼火。

耶鲁公开课 - 文学理论导论课程节选

Seiko of Japan was shocked by the blocked doors, and lack of fire safety equipment in the Triangle Factory.

VOA: special.2011.03.18

It was also caused by just a general lack of confidence.

它同时也是由于,缺乏自信导致的。

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

A new report warns that promising developments in HIV prevention could be undermined by funding gaps and a lack of political will.

VOA: standard.2010.07.15

There are probably those of you in the class already who are outraged by things like the modern food environment, how much energy it takes to transport things from place to place, lack of concern with sustainability and issues like this, and you'd like to see social change.

在坐的各位当中可能已经有人,对目前的食品环境感到愤怒,很多能量浪费在食品相关的运输上,忽略了对可持续性的关心等问题,你可能希望社会会有所改变

耶鲁公开课 - 关于食物的心理学、生物学和政治学课程节选

It was the first manned mission to orbit the moon. "NASA has been burdened with a lack of enthusiasm by the taxpayers."

VOA: standard.2010.04.15

Mr.Obama said maneuvering by Senate Republicans to block extension of unemployment benefits demonstrates, what he called,a lack of faith in the American people.

VOA: standard.2010.07.19

And,he says,law enforcement's efforts are often hindered by a lack of resources - and other priorities.

VOA: standard.2010.08.11

Indonesian views of the United States have been tempered by what many say has been the lack of change in U.S.foreign policy toward the Muslim world.

VOA: standard.2010.06.21

His aim is to ease decades of tensions between Muslims and the United States tensions heightened by the war in Iraq and lack of progress in the Israeli-Palestinian peace process.

VOA: standard.2009.06.03

Instead,his goal will be to ease tensions between the United States and the world's Muslims tensions intensified by the Iraq war and a lack of progress in the Middle East peace process.

VOA: standard.2009.06.02

"So,we think this is going to create a very dire situation where some of us might think of it as genocide by other means rather than by bullets - killing these people slowly through starvation, disease and lack of sanitation,"

VOA: standard.2009.03.28

"But I do think that in general we have seen a shift from, for lack of a better term, professionalized terrorist operations to those that are conducted by not exactly amateurs, but folks with less training and less capability generally, technical capability."

VOA: standard.2010.05.05