Sentence examples for lacked capable from inspiring English sources

A report this year by the China Enterprise Confederation in Beijing said that a "sizeable proportion" of family-run businesses lacked capable successors yet remained very unwilling to groom outsiders.

As a result, the team lacked capable replacements for their aging players.

The C.I.A. "lacked contacts capable of placing material so that the American publisher was unwitting as to its source".

The body also lacked specialists capable of analysing crime scenes in the critical hours after an incident involving the police, they said.

Many lack capable technocrats that the most successful traditional parties drew on to fill crucial government posts.

The result might be plain to see at the very highest levels of American soccer: an often efficient US men's national team but one often lacking players capable of moments of genius.

This limitation becomes more evident in current-generation hTEE systems that lack software capable of calculating end-systolic and end-diastolic volumes and hence performing automatic ejection fraction calculation.

And this year, Democrats do not lack candidates capable of mounting a serious bid for the seat.

"We lack leadership capable of striking out on new paths and meeting the needs of the present with concern for all and without prejudice towards coming generations," he wrote in his June encyclical Laudato si' (On Care for Our Common Home).

Humans and other monogastric animals lack enzymes capable of participating in dietary InsP6 homeostasis, relying instead on exogenous phosphatases provided by resident microbes (Haros et al., 2007, Steer et al., 2004).

Little improved, however, and United desperately lacked a midfielder capable of dictating play from deep.