Sentence examples for lacking in vigilance from inspiring English sources
In American politics a certain amount of corruption is tolerated but Watergate seems to be of an insufferable order of magnitude, and, as has never before happened, appears to involve the Chief Executive himself-if not as a participant, then as an overseer so lacking in vigilance and sound judgment as to select a felon as Vice-Pres.
For this miracle of restoration, we owe decades of vigilance, patience and investment in tomorrow — precisely the things lacking in the other Washington.
Julia's family was impossibly impromptu next to Martin's, lumpy, lacking manners and vigilance and sharp facial features.
Users simply lack the vigilance and the knowledge to make use of the information that Android provides.
We contrast this avoidance model which lacks any social vigilance behavior with two models that each additionally include one of the two types of social vigilance, reported in the primate literature: a) monitoring a specific potential aggressor to remain informed on its whereabouts (monitoring model) or b) scanning the whole group to detect potential aggressors (scanning model).
In 1970, in The Female Eunuch, the redoubtable Germaine Greer chucked out all such gender tosh, excoriating women for lacking a sense of vigilance in understanding what was being done to them and in which they were heavily complicit (echoes of today?).
51 Too much trust on the part of the buyer may lead to lack of vigilance in monitoring performance, which can in turn result in complacency and lower standards.
The lack of vigilance in screening for stolen passports is one of most disturbing lapses in an evolving international antiterrorism regime that remains frighteningly lax, Interpol officials say.
Lawmakers hammered the oil giant over its lack of vigilance in the face of signs pointing to the possible build-up of sediment in the pipeline.
"We've been served poorly by that agency," he said of the DEA's lack of vigilance in this case.
