Sentence examples for mere lack of from inspiring English sources

Mere lack of evidence, of course, is no reason to denounce a theory.

Poverty is now described as a "multidimensional" problem that includes powerlessness, voicelessness, vulnerability and fear as well as mere lack of food, shelter and other economic necessities.

When whole stores and specialized Web sites are devoted to containers, every home catalog trumpets "storage ideas," and a cottage industry of professional organizers grows daily, obviously something more complex than a mere lack of space is at work.

The issue isn't a mere lack of formal training -- pop musicians have always been self-taught; neither Elvis nor the Beatles nor Jimi Hendrix could read music -- but a more profound lack of conventional musical skills.

It may be, however, that adults who were blind with cataracts at birth suffer more than mere lack of normal visual experience; they are not quite comparable to visually naïve, but otherwise intact, infants.

One can certainly take issue with her reasoning (I do myself) without failing to see that there was more in play in her mind than a mere lack of vision or imagination.

This mere lack or absence, as a negation of essence that implies nothing, is the meaning of the ultimate truth in the Geluk tradition.

Reckless misconduct differs from negligence, according to the authors, in that negligence consists of mere inadvertence, lack of skillfulness or failure to take precautions; reckless misconduct, on the other hand, involves a choice or adoption of a course of action either with knowledge of the danger or with knowledge of facts which would disclose this danger to a reasonable man.

Leibniz's Neoplatonic leanings induce him to see creatures as fragments of the divine, whose imperfections are mere lacks.

Further assumptions are that war frequently comes about because of the unawareness of decision makers of the possibility of settling disputes peacefully to the mutual advantage of both sides an unawareness due to mere ignorance, pride, lack of imagination, or selfish and cynical leadership.

"A moderate attitude," he lamented in his "History of The Peloponnesian War," "was deemed a mere shield for lack of virility, and a reasoned understanding with regard to all sides of an issue meant that one was indolent and of no use for anything".