Sentence examples for decided lack of from inspiring English sources

While there may be plenty of career bureaucrats to craft the new language, there is a decided lack of deciders at the helm of many agencies to approve them, particularly in the financial regulatory sphere.

There is the decided lack of snow, for one thing.

At first, they were greeted with a decided lack of interest.

There is a decided lack of romance to receiving online scrip.

Bringing an item like this to a dinner party shows a decided lack of breeding and manners.

It is clearly not their fault, but it makes for a decided lack of variety, something that Henin hinted at after her defeat.

All suspects but Mr. Sears, he finally decided, lacked the sophisticated mastery of detail and the media-canny opportunism embodied in Deep Throat.

At the same time, I decided my lack of information made it impossible to fairly evaluate for readers Ms. Miller's refusal to identify confidential sources and how The Times was handling the matter.

In any other circumstance the absence of a traditional front door facing the street would be a problem, but security and privacy are so important to the program of stem-cell research that the scientists decided the lack of a visible entrance was an asset.

As Epstein, he will play a mild-mannered, dapper Jewish homosexual who had studied and failed at acting, and was running the record department at NEMS, his family's furniture store in Liverpool, England, when he heard the Beatles perform a lunchtime show at the Cavern club and decided – his lack of managerial experience notwithstanding – to become their manager.

She was working for the American Red Cross when she decided that lack of a degree blocked her advancement.