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It died, in large part, because it lacked constituent buy-in; it lacked stakeholder traction.
We sent economists in the Soviet Union with privatization plans when it broke up, and what they really lacked was social trust.
I thought I lacked substance, and the fact that I could feel others' meant that I had nothing of myself to feel.
Our health systems were fragile, our health workers lacked skills and training.
It shows us a general mistrust of government or government-backed institutions, which lacked transparency in the past.
Now this kingdom had many resources and mighty ambitions, but the one thing it lacked was people.
So, this is interesting to me, but it lacked a certain human element.
I lacked the experience.
I had thought of deafness entirely as an illness: those poor people, they couldn't hear, they lacked hearing, and what could we do for them?
People who were good people, maybe even good employees, but lacked the ability to ask their questions properly and unfortunately, that made her look bad, but the worst, that made the business look even worse than how she was looking.
After the war’s end, Frank Calvert began to survey the site, but lacked the funds for a full excavation.
We tended to die at home, in our own beds, looked after by family, although that was the default option because a lot of people lacked access to medical care.
The government has spent over a hundred million dollars connecting it to the electricity grid, connecting it to the road network, but it lacked two things: access to labor and inward investment.
He said they lacked the attention or awareness to take it into account.
When the Ebola outbreak broke out in Western Africa, he quickly realized that doctors there lacked the basic tools to detect and combat disease.
But through the campaign, these injustices were framed as not just news stories, they were firsthand experiences that had affected real people, who were creating, with the solidarity of others, what they needed and had previously lacked: a platform to speak out, the reassurance they weren't alone or to blame for what happened to them and open discussions that would help to reduce stigma around the issue.
Because of this lack of wealth, we lived in a neighborhood that lacked wealth, and henceforth a school system that lacked wealth.
So my brother had no alternatives; he lacked power.
I wanted to know why these kids lacked water, a substance that is essential for life.
And they were shocked to find out that for every 100 working age adults in the country, 47 of them lacked Level 1 numeracy skills.
Sure, I was totally spent, I lacked interest in things I used to enjoy, barely ate, struggled with insomnia and felt isolated and depleted.
But doing this work, we also realized that the world, not just world leaders, but businesses and citizens like every single person in this room, lacked an actionable guide on how we can avoid a coming global food security crisis.
Montag realizes he’s always felt uneasy - but has lacked the descriptive words to express his feelings in a society where even uttering the phrase “once upon a time” can be fatal.
They lacked self-control for logical decision-making, took greater risks and made more harmful choices.
For some of us, confidence is a revolutionary choice, and it would be our greatest shame to see our best ideas go unrealized and our brightest dreams go unreached all because we lacked the engine of confidence.
In my research on cyberstalking, I found that law enforcement lacked the training to understand the laws available to them and the problem of online abuse.
Without taking into account that many of the recruits tested were new immigrants to the United States who lacked formal education or English language exposure, they created an erroneous intelligence hierarchy of ethnic groups.
Stories gave me a sense of center, continuity and coherence, the three big Cs that I otherwise lacked.
But we've kind of lacked imagination in how we could do that well or interestingly.
The remainder of the film lacked the punch to amuse either of my young daughters (aged less than ten years), myself, my wife, my mother-in-law, or even the cat or the dog.
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