Some sellers received payments considered well below market value, but they lacked resources to sue.
The flavor was meaty and full-bodied, but they lacked the succulence pork can have.
Their economies were less productive, so they lacked the tax base needed to sustain modern armies.
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They lacked permission to do what was necessary because the airlines bounded what they could do.
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They soon learned to browse the Web in English, even though they lacked facility in the language.
Chelsea responded as expected, but they lacked both inspiration and a cutting edge in the opening exchanges.
In the second condition, applicants also wrote an essay, but this time about a time they lacked power.
Those familiar with Iraq were excluded from planning because they lacked the proper political and partisan bona fides.
In an interview, Deputy Attorney General Rahmatullah Nazari said prosecutors didn't charge Mr. Azimi because they lacked evidence.
Many Whig politicians were critical of this policy, but they lacked the votes to put a stop to it.
Because in those days they lacked the lobbying clout of doctors and lawyers.
Traditionally, many stodgy investors, such as pension funds, steered clear of such things because they lacked an investment-grade rating.
And while the scrum and line-out worked well in the first-half they lacked the cutting edge of their Welsh opponents.
Though they knew they could buy the newly distressed assets for a song, they lacked the capital to finance the deals.
In their final report, members of the advisory panel agreed that they lacked consensus on how to protect U.S. telecom networks.
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Warwick converted and though the Dragons had some decent territory, they lacked the guile required to prise open the Munster defence.
In discussions that followed at Gordon, the Christians lamented that they lacked the sense of family that the Jewish people have.
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Former President Bill Clinton vetoed two similar bills on the grounds that they lacked an exception to protect the health of the mother.
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After the break the visitors enjoyed some good spells of possession but they lacked the cutting edge to break down the Northampton defence.
But with Didier Drogba appearing to struggle with a tight hamstring on his comeback after African Nations duty, they lacked a cutting edge.
Deprived of a raft of senior players including goalkicking king Jonny Wilkinson, they lacked the experienced heads to close out three tight matches.
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Too many of their passes were going astray, there was a lack of movement and, most unusually for the Merseysiders, they lacked fight.
After the interval Danny Wilson's team stepped up the tempo and should have won comfortably but they lacked composure in front of goal.
Even though they possessed good mechanics, I saw that they lacked the fundamentals of being positive, optimistic, and resilient in the face of challenges.
And for all the home team's endeavour, most of their opportunities were from long range and they lacked a real cutting edge up front.
"The reason many changed their way of life and adopted Western ways was because they lacked the necessary information about their religion, " they said.
But what they lacked in knowledge they more than made up for in willingness to pursue allegations of wrongdoing and enforcement of the applicable laws.
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The commission often focused on just a dozen states, which complained they were singled out because they lacked enough big friends to keep critics at bay.
His two main opponents competed with each other for the block of older Irish-American voters whose roots they shared, and they lacked Mr Brown's powerful connections.
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