profound lack
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profound
adjective
uk/prəˈfaʊnd/us/prəˈfaʊnd/
felt or experienced very strongly or in an ...
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A significant indication of this can be found in theprofoundlackof links between the liberalism index and political preferences for the party system.
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In general the first part is more valuable, as until now there has been aprofoundlackof accumulated knowledge on the subject.
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Her female 'captives' signal aprofoundlackof personal liberty, whereas freedom is equated with masculinity and the penetrating force of the male gaze.
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These studies indicated that there was aprofoundlackof understanding regarding the response of the fetus to surgical intervention and to extracorporeal circulation.
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Bombus ephippiatus workers showed aprofoundlackof flower constancy: each individual animal sampled carried at least six different pollen types on its body.
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It would be a most profound mistake,profoundlackof common sense, if we allowed party feeling, engendered perhaps by events abroad, to prevent unity.
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He shows aprofoundlackof understanding of the relationship between, for example, optician and patient, and dentist and patient.
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There is also ample evidence of aprofoundlackof public knowledge of the code.
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I can only say that he shows aprofoundlackof knowledge as to what has happened in the past four years.
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He shows aprofoundlackof understanding of the current regime and charity law.
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Kissinger, and he, whatever his other merits, had aprofoundlackof interest in world economic affairs.
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Reagan's silence was interpreted by many as aprofoundlackof personal concern for victims of the worst infectious disease to emerge since the 1918 flu pandemic.
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