Sentence examples for lacked almost from inspiring English sources

In my mouth, the new "air" lacked almost all substance, but embodied the essence of celery.

BERLIN -- Ahead of a major security and defense conference in Munich this weekend, NATO acknowledged Thursday that it lacked almost half the trainers it had promised to help build up the army and police in Afghanistan.

So, did James view his performance Saturday — when he rushed for 73 yards on 16 carries and gave the Cardinals a semblance of balance that they lacked almost all season — as redemption?

The PLA signals were lower than for the heterologous CHO-K1 expression system, but were clearly specific, as illustrated with nogo-knockout neurons, which lacked almost any PLA signal.

Other states lack almost any protections at all.

The government, corrupt and ineffective, lacks almost any popular support.

Their team lacks almost everything, including a coach, following Paul Maurice's merciful beheading yesterday.

Lacking almost all credibility, Armstrong is not in a good position to negotiate over that ban.

Unlike other readable memoirists – John Major, for example – his early life lacks almost all hint of a compelling struggle or trauma.

But the restaurants themselves are hardly paragons of design: their small, narrow spaces lack almost entirely anything recognizable as décor.

In Britain we lack almost all large keystone species: ecological engineers that drive the fascinating dynamics which allow other lifeforms to flourish.