To fill in the missing plank of his MDG plan on education, Obama should call for the enactment of the Education for All Act, and propose a plan and budget for a $2 billion Global Fund for Education.
I loved the picture on my classroom wall: the girl and boy walking over a wooden bridge, blithely unaware that only steps away waited the missing plank, the whirlpool raging below, and behind them, the guardian angel at the ready to swoop them up in the nick of time.
Marking the end of town were two bridges over the Maitland River: one narrow iron bridge, where cars sometimes got into trouble over which one should pull off and wait for the other, and a wooden walkway, which occasionally had a plank missing, so that you could look right down into the bright, hurrying water.
A plank is missing from the fence that separates him from the angry Greek couple next door.
I feel like I've tuned in late, missed a central plank of the story and now can't follow the plot at all.
"We're moving in this Friday," Mr. Du said with conviction, despite the missing ceiling tiles, the wooden planks leaning against the walls and the whine of the power saw.
In the broiling heat a huge crowd milled about a giant field next to the main mosque here, Faycal, glancing at the stiff, shrouded corpses that were placed under tents on wooden planks, searching for missing brothers, sisters, fathers and mothers.
"It's interesting to note that Plank, an established star, was missing from most of the tobacco sets of the era, giving further substantiation to [the] 'holdout' theory for BOTH Wagner and Plank and shedding further doubt on the broken plate theory," wrote Lew Lipsett in The Encyclopedia of Baseball Cards.
The scene in which Rory hits Eknodine-inhabited Mrs Hamil with a plank was filmed first of all with Darvill missing actress Joan Linder, and then again with Linder's stunt double, whom he was allowed to hit.
A group of women carrying heavy bundles carefully step across the wooden planks that the Uzbekistani border guards have laid over the missing portion of the bridge.
Wooden planks in the grandstand, like neglected teeth, are mostly loose or missing.
