But its lack of action did not stop the rise of a labor organization that had been formed a few years earlier.

VOA: special.2010.05.06

Debbie Pickford of Allstate Insurance says teens are especially at risk from distracted driving -- and not just because they lack experience on the roads.

VOA: special.2010.07.01

Lack of credit not only hurt banks but manufacturers, too.

VOA: special.2009.01.02

But independent military analyst Pavel Felgenhauer notes that Russia may not only lack the money, but also the industrial capacity for large-scale rearmament.

VOA: standard.2009.03.20

Dr.Huerta says many Latin and South American communities do not have mammography machines, and there is a general lack of knowledge about the disease.

VOA: standard.2010.02.02

European Union foreign ministers expressed concern not only about the security situation in Afghanistan, but also about the lack of sufficient progress in political reform there.

VOA: standard.2009.10.27

Otherwise what we see resulting are a lack of compliance, people not returning for appointments, not filling prescriptions, not doing a number of things they should be doing as part of the health exchange.

VOA: standard.2010.03.05

There is a lack of regular running water in several areas, while doctors at the local hospital admit they do not always provide blood to patients that is tested for the HIV virus that causes AIDS.

VOA: standard.2010.02.14

The lack of housing is also a big issue,partly because of the years of conflict, which have not given us a clear idea of how many homes have actually been destroyed in Afghanistan or badly damaged.

VOA: standard.2009.09.13

"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

"Right now we have a lack of information on this so that first we have a policy to make our customer know - not something like gambling - it's very dangerous for them so that we have to make a seminar for customers first."

VOA: standard.2010.07.21