Sentence examples for but is lacking from inspiring English sources

Empathy is useful in negotiations, but is lacking.

He is trifling with us, and this show of lo-cal ideas and casual gestures may be full of stuff, but is lacking substance.

But in the case of "Bright Shiny Morning," which brims with facts but is lacking in credible fantasies, the failure is artistic — and thus, from a certain perspective, far more grievous.

Ms. Rousseff, who was active in armed militant organizations fighting the dictatorship in the 1960s, is considered a competent administrator but is lacking in the kind of seductive charisma that helped make Mr. da Silva so popular.

Finn had bowled a good spell the previous evening but is lacking confidence or consistency and Haddin, sensing his fallibility, went for him: 24 runs came from two overs, all but four off the bowler, before Cook pulled him out of the attack and replaced him with Broad.

The work presented in [34] briefly points to the C64x but is lacking details.

"They have great ideas but are lacking the infrastructure to do software development, for example.

The likely alternatives are about the same age as Smith but are lacking his vast reservoir of experience.

"Our quality in the final third has been generally good but was lacking a little bit.

P elements are found in certain strains (called P) of D. melanogaster, but are lacking in others (M).

Certain people have strengths in some areas of emotional intelligence, but are lacking in others, Glass explains.