Sentence examples for abject lack of from inspiring English sources

Incidents like these reveal an abject lack of trust in the local election commissions that oversee voting.

Abject lack of enthusiasm for Labour combined with Ukip's vacuuming up of support from across the spectrum to push Mr Miliband close to disaster.

Mr Johnson's estuary proposal, as it is never described, has loomed large in the aviation debate, despite its abject lack of seriousness.

Despite Ed's abject lack of credentials, financing or organization, polls showed that a third of the state's voters already knew who he was, and roughly 7percentt were inclined to vote for him.

Battles for diagnosis, lengthy waits for treatment, an over-reliance on drugs, and, frequently, an abject lack of compassion: this is the picture that people with mental health problems, their families and professionals paint of NHS mental health care.

He told the Guardian earlier this year: "Commissioning editors, some of them need to not be white … There is an abject lack of people of colour in power positions.

All they see is the abject standards, the lack of basic medicines, the primitive levels of hygiene, the absence of equipment.

But this marks the first time that the United Nations has acknowledged the involvement of its own employees in the camp's underworld of commercial sex work, which is driven by abject poverty and a lack of law enforcement.

The abject sense of helplessness and lack of hope is palpable.

But residents of Liangshan say abject poverty, drug abuse and a lack of jobs have forced many children to head for factories.

Many Americans have come to think that poor academic performance, lack of focus and abject hooliganism are male rites of passage: dudes, we are told, wind up in messy-but-hilarious high jinks before buckling down and getting serious with school, work and relationships – but that it's OK because they eventually get it together.