Lin had no experience as a restaurateur, and the chef proved to be lacking in talent.
The case became controversial after several eye-witnesses changed their testimonies and evidence against Davis appeared to be lacking.
But serious moves to tackle the mountain of bad loans in the banking system are thought to be lacking.
Education in the more technical areas is said to be lacking in the USA. SparkFun wants to do its part to change that.
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Economics has traditionally assumed that your preferences do not depend on government action, but a bit of thought finds this assumption to be lacking.
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Use the combinatory technique to figure out what could make for a strong counterpart to ingredients seeming to be lacking that certain je ne sais quoi.
Each PlayBook will ship with a couple of games from EA to appeal to consumers, but other options in App World seem to be lacking, especially compared to competitors.
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In fact, this process is comparable to the use of fertilizers in agriculture, i.e. adding nutrients that are found to be lacking in the local environment to stimulate plant growth, in this case phytoplanckton that form the base of the marine food-chain.
While TrustedReviews found the sound quality decent and some other features, including wireless reception, to be good, the reviewer also found the WACS700 to be lacking in a number of key features, including support for DRM'd files, slow ripping (as long as 20 minutes per CD), and the size of the hard drive (40GB is kind of skimpy).
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Also stop trying to be Hollywood lacking the worldwide audiences customers and price infrastructure to support it .
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However, Labour's Mr Balls told the Andrew Marr Show that the chancellor's "judgement has been proved to be woefully lacking".
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G7 may have made some mistakes in the 1980s, but there was a political will to deal with economic problems that seems to be completely lacking at present.
Mr Bush is said to be too extreme, and lacking the intellectual capacity to be president.
One big hurdle is that the will to reform may be lacking, especially if the world economy continues to recover.
"It occurred to me that something that seems to be kind of lacking in so-called indie rock these days is an element of sex and danger, " Everett says.
The first practical application of embryonic stem cells was to provide a way for the gene-targeting trick invented by Dr Capecchi and Dr Smithies to be used to produce adult mice lacking particular genes or knockout mice, as they are now called.
The review will simply identify and make recommendations as to what was lacking and what needs to be strengthened.
The prosecution said scientific tests showed the devices to be completely ineffectual and lacking any grounding in science.
Stuff that's intended to spend its life in the company of halibut tends to be purely functional, lacking any aerodynamic design appeal.
The lime-green devices run on electromotive energy from a wind-up mechanism--thus allowing the machines to be used in areas lacking a regular power supply.
The key part of that reasoning from its lawyers is that there is no sound basis on which to take that action against RBS. To take that action would require that RBS could be proven to be "incompetent, dishonest or lacking in integrity".
Angela Merkel, the Christian Democrats' leader, appears in contrast to be almost a country bumpkin, woefully lacking the qualities needed to govern the country in troubled times.
They tend to be repetitive and dull, lacking any real story.
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We paid special attention to the native Twitter client and couldn't find much lacking, as it appeared to be identical in function to any smartphone version.
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Italy's fighter pilots, after all, are often described by their counterparts in terms familiar from the world of sport: flashy, skilful, sometimes a bit reckless, and lacking the patience to be solid team players.
He accused Mr. Lhota, his chief opponent, of lacking the financial resources to be credible.
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Not least of all, there will be a legitimacy to the process sorely lacking in the original bills' construction.
If it isn't there - and theirs is one union concerned that the capacity to do something about struggling schools may well be lacking - then the whole rationale of banding is flawed.
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