The party airily sought to explain away these curious lacunae by saying the manifesto had been based on guidelines drawn up at a party meeting in February.
But applied to the wrong cause, devotion to duty can lead to disaster.Such explanations may throw some light on the origins of the Holocaust, but they leave huge lacunae.
Mr Isra, the Constitutional Court judge, suggests an amendment to the constitution to oblige the government to legislate on such lacunae within a set time.Even once the relevant laws have been put into place, it will take a good few court battles (or street battles) to impress their importance on recalcitrant bureaucrats and impatient businessmen.
The filibuster was a mistake created in 1806 when Aaron Burr convinced the Senate to eliminate the previous-question rule; 31 years later an enterprising senator discovered you could use the lacunae to tie up debate forever.
Ah well, critics can be wrong, as Jane Austen's innumerable, adoring fans would happily testify.David Nokes has, of course, the same story to tell: he confronts the same lacunae and adopts, to some extent, a similar technique.
On this view, Israel uses times of quiet to expand settlements, but it took war across the Suez Canal to dislodge Israel from Sinai, a guerrilla campaign to get it out of South Lebanon and two intifadas to persuade Israel to end its administration of Gaza and the cities of the West Bank.There are also disappointing lacunae.
They even cultivate a crucial sense of scholarly modesty: recognising the uncertainties that lurk in the lacunae.
Her Collected Stories appeared in 1987, and Illumination and Night Glare: The Unfinished Autobiography of Carson McCullers, segmented and with large lacunae, was published in 1999.
During the third week of pregnancy, the syncytiotrophoblast forms a single layer of cells covering the growing villi and lining the syncytial lacunae or small cavities between the villi.
The ovaries of reptiles, birds, and monotremes have cavities homologous to those in amphibians; the number of medullary spaces in the adults is considerably larger, however, so that the ovaries contain an extensive network of fluid-filled cavities (lacunae).
Osteoclasts occupy small depressions on the bone's surface, called Howship lacunae; the lacunae are thought to be caused by erosion of the bone by the osteoclasts' enzymes.
