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

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

Matt. - So Matt, for you, what bothers you is not the cannibalism but the lack of due process.

马特，-马特，如此说来，真正困扰你的不是食人,而是缺乏正当的程序。

耶鲁公开课 - 公正课程节选

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

Spock is described as not having emotions because he's half Vulcan, from a planet where they lack emotions.

斯帕克没有情感,因为他有半个火神的血统，他来自缺少情感的星球。

耶鲁公开课 - 心理学导论课程节选

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

VOA: special.2009.01.02

This lack of emotions on this on a TV series does not hurt them much.

缺少情感,在电视连续剧中对它们不会有太多伤害。

耶鲁公开课 - 心理学导论课程节选

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