Sentence examples for lacks definite from inspiring English sources

This is often said to be because his native Polish lacks definite and indefinite articles, which make the distinction more grammatically obvious, but this conjecture is nonsense because Leśniewski spoke and wrote fluent German, and German is awash with articles.

§ 225.118 Applications and proposals lacking definite plans for involvement of human subjects.

§ 431.118 Applications and proposals lacking definite plans for involvement of human subjects.

§ 16.118 Applications and proposals lacking definite plans for involvement of human subjects.

Compared with the "fixed" characteristics of the present period, the ancestral era is represented as having been one of flux, lacking definite boundaries.

But lacking definite plans, unity of purpose, and decisive leadership, the rebels lost control of the situation to moderate political figures, who restored order in the city and futilely hoped to negotiate with Nicholas for political concessions.

In 1764 she resolved the problem of Poland, a kingdom lacking definite boundaries and coveted by three neighbouring powers, by installing one of her old lovers, Stanisław Poniatowski, a weak man entirely devoted to her, as king of Poland.

Given that meaning is a property of complete expressions, Hartley is quick to point out that individual words often lack definite, shared meanings.

If the apparent properties of objects of perception are sometimes indeterminate, then the sense data involved would have to be metaphysically indeterminate — that is, they would have to actually lack definite characteristics.

So understood there are a wide variety of names: proper and common names; adjectives and adverbs; pronouns, whether personal, possessive, reflexive, or relative; conventional interjections such as "Goodness!"; and, arguably, conjunctions and prepositions (despite lacking definite signification), along with participles and gerundives (which have tense).

We lack definite evidence that they represent fully differentiated neurons as they did not express mature neuronal markers including NeuN.