Collocations withlack
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appalling lack
He argued that the appalling lack of sanitation and the disorder of the streets made the re-establishment of a baladiyya imperative.
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apparent lack
As this paper hopes to demonstrate, however, this apparent lack of sophistication was not so much an intrinsic flaw as a deliberate choice.
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chronic lack
Church leaders and missionaries often attributed their lack of success to a chronic lack of financial and human resources.
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complete lack
The criterion used to define negative reactivity was complete lack of fluorescence on the parasites.
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distinct lack
There are numerous interventions available but a distinct lack of quality research being conducted to validate them.
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general lack
There was a widespread belief that there was a general lack of understanding and little interest in the problems of the farming population.
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lack access to
This separation makes for inefficiency in the use of savings and may give rise to financing gaps, where some seemingly eligible borrowers lack access to any lender.
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lack experience
Sometimes because they lack experience of the desirability of the higher pleasures; sometimes because of weakness of will.
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lack information
As yet, we lack information on the reproductive allocation and frugivore visitation rates to these morphotypes.
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lack of acceptance
Yet, as is evidenced by the forementioned note, their lack of acceptance of the black market did not mean that it was eliminated.
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lack of accountability
Each component maintains a separate professional culture, assisted by their hyper-autonomy and lack of accountability.
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lack of adherence to
Reasons for the apparent lack of adherence to guidelines are discussed.
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lack of agreement
The lack of agreement between participants themselves, and on occasion with the researcher, highlights a major problem in investigating this phenomenon.
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lack of alternative
Being a care-giver by default is a consequence of the lack of alternative care providers.
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lack of ambition
She displayed her usual sure-handed control of her brief, but exuded a wanton lack of ambition or, indeed, any sense of urgency about the issue.
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lack of appetite
Common symptoms reported as troublesome were muscle weakness, shortness of breath, and lack of appetite.
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lack of appreciation
Accounts are given of systems that have failed because of lack of appreciation of human factors.
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lack of attention
In the light of this discussion, the lack of attention to strategies for introducing change is something of an omission.
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lack of autonomy
You might call my attention to my lack of autonomy, the inauthenticity of my happiness.
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lack of availability
Lack of availability appears to be a main deterrent for further demand.
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lack of awareness
This lack of awareness of earlier efforts may, however, be in some respects be a positive sign.
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lack of candour
I only complain about the lack of candour at the beginning of his speech.
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lack of certainty
The narrative mood indicates the speaker's lack of certainty regarding the content of the information conveyed.
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lack of clarity
There has been a lack of clarity.
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lack of cohesion
Initially, this lack of cohesion can be observed in certain forms within the painting that figure their own separateness from the composition as a whole.
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lack of commitment
A greater affliction is ' the apathy that derives from the lack of commitment to the civic public realm ' (p. 96).
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lack of communication
The living proof that the whole idea of purity in music was an embarrassing failure lies in its manifest lack of communication with audiences.
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lack of compassion
Indeed, in our shared vision we both wanted to address what we perceived to be a lack of compassion in teaching and conducting.
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lack of competence
One can relate these design failures to thoughtlessness or shortage of time or lack of competence on the part of designers.
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lack of competition
In this article we examine public choice explanations that attribute corruption to a lack of competition in either political or economic arenas or both.
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lack of competitiveness
But the absence of mineral resources, and therefore the lack of competitiveness in foreign markets, hindered industrial activities.
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lack of compliance
Such a relatively high frequency is due to the fact that there is lack of compliance and difficulties of anticoagulation in our patients.
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lack of comprehension
The lack of comprehension was perhaps somehow seen as a loss of face for the questioner as well as for the candidate.
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lack of concentration
Displaying extreme self-neglect and lack of concentration, he had to quit the yeshiva.
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lack of confidence
But given the lack of confidence with which any such story can be affirmed, the non-consequentialist cannot choose either option without giving hostages to fortune.
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lack of connection
Moreover, students could have reported that they experienced teachers as supportive to other students, even if they themselves felt a lack of connection.
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lack of consensus
This general lack of consensus across studies is due to many factors, some methodological and some statistical.
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lack of consent
Those that genuinely involve coercion or lack of consent, for instance, are straightforwardly wrong.
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lack of consideration
It also signifies selfish shallowness: her bliss entails lack of consideration for the feelings of the jealous girl ignored.
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lack of consistency
It is fair to say that there is a lack of consistency in the findings of earlier studies.
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lack of contact
Little imported material has been recovered from inland sites, reflecting the apparent lack of contact.
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lack of continuity
Yet, invariance does not hold, due to the lack of continuity.
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lack of control
One of the most forceful and powerful means of combating disorder and lack of control is language.
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lack of conviction
A public appeal for reconciliation might be taken as a sign of weakness, lack of conviction in one's beliefs, lack of determination, vulnerability, and the like.
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lack of cooperation
Until now, the consolidating options have failed because of cost and lack of cooperation between biological database developers.
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lack of coordination
Many uncertainties, however, do not result from lack of data, but from lack of knowledge about existing data and from lack of coordination of it.
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lack of correlation
There is no restriction on movement of animals across the state boundaries which may explain the lack of correlation between geographical origin and genetic groups.
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lack of coverage
This might have lost some sales, but would have avoided a readership disappointed in the lack of coverage on other modes of seed dispersal.
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lack of creativity
Gil always believed it was lack of creativity.
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lack of data
Lack of data prevented inclusion of all forty comparison countries.
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lack of definition
However, whilst it defines a number of concepts relevant to today's healthcare practice, there still appears to be a lack of definition of clinical governance.
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lack of depth
Although the comparative approach taken is quite laudable, at times the lack of depth leads to some rather questionable assertions.
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lack of desire
There should be no reflection on him, but there has been a lack of desire on the part of others.
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lack of differentiation
The potential inflation of geographical spread due to lack of differentiation between business and leisure travellers is of concern.
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lack of diligence
Perhaps that is because of my lack of clarity rather than his lack of diligence.
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lack of discipline
Music theorists will criticize the lack of discipline.
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lack of diversity
The audience quite rightly pointed out the lack of diversity with respect to the gender and age of the panelists.
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lack of documentation
Young stated that his explanation was frankly speculative owing to the lack of documentation.
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lack of electricity
Some of it may have been due up till fairly recently to the lack of amenities—for instance, the lack of electricity.
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lack of empathy
Although lack of empathy is not the same as withdrawal, these processes can serve similar functions of limiting one's emotional availability to others.
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lack of employment
Being pushed to the eastern or the western periphery implied moving further away from the informal economy and a lack of employment opportunities.
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lack of encouragement
He attributed the very modest results to the wide range of subjects taught and the near-total lack of encouragement to potential students (local authority employees).
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lack of enforcement
Lack of enforcement has substantially reduced the revenue raised.
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lack of engagement
The lack of engagement with masculinity and space is also to be regretted, since gender can only be fully discerned through comparative perspectives.
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lack of enthusiasm
In 1933 the executive appears not to have met for six months and postponed a mission owing to lack of enthusiasm.
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lack of equipment
Unfortunately the resolution of rise time was poor due to lack of equipment.
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lack of evidence
Problems of replication aside, the lack of evidence suggesting that host-associated populations may have arisen is, perhaps, surprising.
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lack of exercise
This evidence suggested that policy could reduce, for example, diseases linked to tobacco use, inadequate diet, and lack of exercise.
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lack of exposure
This rules out lack of exposure to accents as a causative factor, since exposure can be expected to increase with age.
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lack of faith
These include the smoking habits of health services' staff and a lack of faith in one's own ability to contribute to change.
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lack of familiarity
This indicates that deficiencies in the environment will be compounded by a lack of familiarity.
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lack of financing
If they complain about lack of financing and about difficulties, he will have the perfect answer.
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lack of flexibility
The main reason is the lack of flexibility when composing scenarios.
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lack of focus
So many things are said to be interactive that the common usage of the term is suffering from a lack of focus.
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lack of foresight
Given this lack of foresight or commitment, households tend to save less than is optimal, and thus government intervention may improve welfare.
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lack of funding
These deviations point to weak planning and financing problems (especially due to fluctuations of grants) rather than an overall lack of funding.
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lack of guidance
The lack of discussion, and lack of guidance for the reader, comes in all the time.
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lack of honesty
Both criticized the administration for its lack of honesty and cooperation while noting the legal necessity to adequately fund the program.
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lack of housing
It was in the framework of rapid urban expansion and persistent poverty, henceforth dominated by unemployment and lack of housing, that youth crime took place.
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lack of hygiene
Their moral lack of hygiene followed that induced by their work.
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lack of imagination
Do they merely reflect a lack of imagination on our part?
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lack of infrastructure
If not, does the lack of infrastructure affect artistic decisions?
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lack of integration
The account he has written remains somewhat diffuse, with an often troublesome lack of integration among its various parts.
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lack of integrity
Many of the respondents believed that a lack of integrity in society led to their inability to trust others and sensed that they were particularly vulnerable.
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lack of interest
The reasons for refusals were mainly lack of interest or time.
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lack of involvement
Thus, wives may complain more about lack of involvement in household decisions.
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lack of judgment
It is the fault of drivers and their lack of judgment.
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lack of knowledge
A user's lack of knowledge may not only hinder search effectiveness but also lead the user to interact ineffectively with the system.
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lack of leadership
At the same time, they have experienced lack of leadership and marginalization as community-based nurses who remain employed by the hospital sector.
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lack of liquidity
Credit arrangements were essential for all social orders as a result of the expansion of internal trade and the lack of liquidity.
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lack of manpower
We had to group villages together and put one clergyman in charge, simply because of lack of manpower.
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lack of mobility
The general lack of mobility makes the causes and effects of positioning all the more dramatic.
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lack of moisture
Thus, at the time of dispersal, germination may be inhibited by low temperature and/or by lack of moisture.
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lack of monitoring
The lack of monitoring data of ecosystem scales is particularly noteworthy.
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lack of motivation
Apart from inexperience, situational factors (such as deadlines or lack of motivation) can of course lead to the first draft being the final one.
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lack of objectivity
But if you think of economics as a science, its lack of objectivity will merely irritate.
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lack of openness
The lack of openness in communication between participants and health professionals during consultation was also a key finding, especially in relation to potential side-effects.
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lack of opportunity
It includes positive and negative items describing the perception of the future in terms of success, darkness, lack of opportunity and faith.
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lack of originality
It goes on to say that that shows a distressing lack of originality.
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lack of oversight
There were problems with the lack of oversight, accountability, transparency and so on.
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lack of oxygen
Total circulatory arrest increases the risk of neuronal injury due to lack of oxygen.
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lack of participation
As a political organisation, we must take some of the blame for the lack of participation in elections.
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lack of patience
However, such injury is often caused by ignorance, bad advice, lack of patience and over-enthusiastic or compulsive behaviour.
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lack of patriotism
They are not limited by their greed or by their lack of patriotism.
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lack of planning
The lack of planning rules has allowed a gap to grow between public and private investments.
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lack of precision
This is not petty criticism of typos or spelling errors, but reference to a certain lack of precision throughout the volume.
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lack of preparation
Some students feel that it is difficult, but also that this difficulty could be the result of lack of preparation.
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lack of preparedness
This relative lack of preparedness may contribute to the greater frequency of harassment among boys than girls.
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lack of privacy
Woodward (1969) found that unmarried women attending a birth control clinic over a period of 2 years expressed concern over the lack of privacy in the waiting room.
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lack of productivity
Note that this lack of productivity is well predicted by the proposed interpretation of case features being based on the obliqueness hierarchy.
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lack of professionalism
It was the arrogance, apathy, and the lack of professionalism.
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lack of progress
One reason for the lack of progress has been the inordinate focus upon replacement alternatives.
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lack of rainfall
The artificial procuring of suitable climatic conditions by extra street watering and sewer flushing to compensate for any lack of rainfall.
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lack of realism
Whether this produces less valid results compared to strong statistical designs accompanied by lack of realism is yet unanswered.
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lack of recognition
And another conclusion is: "the cumulative effect of the changes, pressures of work and lack of recognition is undermining the morale of the teaching workforce".
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lack of regard
His actions display his cool lack of regard for authority: he jaywalks, and 'gives the finger' to a taxi that threatens to run him over.
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lack of regulation
Lack of regulation gives rise to several areas of concern about the quality of care provided, as discussed below.
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lack of representation
Readers may cite a lack of representation of theories in their domain (the theories cited are necessarily representative, not exhaustive).
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lack of respect
Rejection is characterized by physical punishment, hostility, lack of respect for the child's point of view, and unjustified criticism in front of others.
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lack of response
His lack of response did not indicate treatment refractoriness.
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lack of responsiveness
However, it is argued that their major limitation is lack of responsiveness.
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lack of restraint
Language was used which showed, in my view, a complete lack of dignity, not to say lack of restraint.
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lack of rigour
Another confounding factor is the lack of rigour in assaying the endpoint of maturation - the production of a fertilizable egg.
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lack of sanitation
He argued that the appalling lack of sanitation and the disorder of the streets made the re-establishment of a baladiyya imperative.
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lack of self-confidence
Three subscales were derived : emotional reliance on another person, lack of self-confidence and assertion of autonomy.
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lack of self-control
Those who do not do so are ' wanton ', a term which connotes lack of self-control, libertinism.
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lack of sensitivity
To be sure, giving priority to a symbol over an individual sometimes indicates a rigidity and lack of sensitivity unbefitting good moral judgment.
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lack of seriousness
The lateness and lack of seriousness of the reply predated a matter of serious national importance.
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lack of significance
We guess that this lack of significance is due to measurement error.
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lack of sleep
Going without meals is likely to be more important, as is lack of sleep and stress.
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lack of sophistication
There are no brain scans, and for their money the book's lack of sophistication in neuroscience is a problem.
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lack of specificity
First, previously reported modest correlations and lack of specificity may be due in part to diagnostic heterogeneity within groups of depressed children.
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lack of stability
This touches upon the 'lack of stability' of the concept, especially in the ups and downs of everyday classroom life and also in changes in motivation over time.
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lack of standardization
Lack of standardization in this sense militates against scientifically valuable advance.
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lack of stimulation
An alternative possible explanation for the lack of stimulation of the bacterial assemblage is the presence of an additional limiting factor.
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lack of success
They were very well aware of the dangers that they faced, very well qualified to undertake them, and tragically unfortunate in their lack of success.
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lack of supervision
In addition to inadequate attention to physical needs, forms of this subtype include lack of supervision, moral-legal neglect, and education neglect.
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lack of supply
There is the point of the lack of supply of steel, and so on.
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lack of support
This factor may also explain the lack of support for the scale of place trigger salience.
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lack of sympathy
There has been no lack of sympathy on all sides for the miners, for their special position and for their special claims.
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lack of tact
I suggest that there may be a lack of tact and understanding on the part of the police.
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lack of talent
Daniels argues that a distinction can and should be drawn between disability and lack of talent.
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lack of training
Linguists do regret the lack of training that pupils have in such basic grammatical terminology and analysis.
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lack of transparency
This lack of transparency carries over to costs.
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lack of transportation
Lack of transportation and communication infrastructure means that rural people there have difficulty finding remunerative opportunities even in neighbouring areas.
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lack of trust
However, rival states suffer from a deep lack of trust.
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lack of understanding
Nonetheless, the lack of understanding and mistrust of government prevented the project from moving ahead.
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lack of uniformity
No consensus has been arrived at, however, giving rise, potentially, to confusion and an unproductive lack of uniformity.
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lack of unity
They were, rather, concerned about the lack of unity in the country.
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lack of urgency
The lack of urgency may have come from the spirit of the times.
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lack of visibility
Lack of visibility affects two-wheeled vehicles and all vehicles in general.
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lack of vision
As the behavior of the socially able children attests, lack of vision is not a barrier to developing fully elaborated symbolic play.
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lack of will
Is the policy failure the product of a lack of will or a lack of means or both?
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lack of willingness
Arguably this use of the site subverts historical complexity and infers a lack of willingness to critically engage with the past.
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lack resources
When family and/or friends lack resources to help with essential duties, this may cause problems for the older person.
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marked lack
In contrast, however, there is a marked lack of research on the effects of the economic containment policy.
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notable lack
In each case these localities are small (< 150 km2) islands with a notable lack of permanent natural water systems.
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noticeable lack
What was perhaps most impressive about these three performances was the noticeable lack of the performers' apprehension towards the interface.
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perceived lack
The perceived lack of political push from the centre resulted in spasmodic and unstructured attempts to introduce screening programmes locally.
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profound lack
A significant indication of this can be found in the profound lack of links between the liberalism index and political preferences for the party system.
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relative lack
However, sometimes the problem can be the relative lack of demand for what traditional communities control.
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resulting lack
The first is the potential for lack of alignment between each stage and a resulting lack of coherence in the curriculum.
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seeming lack
On occasion, the author's seeming lack of close familiarity with sources and recent critical work in the field leads to some unfortunate slips.
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severe lack
Where we have a severe lack of knowledge, however, is on the proximal processes involved in these person-environment correlations.
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sheer lack
The chief criticism of contemporary sociology is its sheer lack of reflexive thought in this area.
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total lack
What this situation perhaps clearly indicates is a near total lack of organization.
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utter lack
Measurement activities were very little impeded by the utter lack of consensus about what sorts of things heat and electricity were.
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