Belgium went out with something of a whimper, lacking cohesion, creativity and precision and only threatening late on when they played one long ball after another towards Marouane Fellaini.
Surely nothing could now derail the great locomotive of economic growth?Indeed something could: a lack of brainpower.
From a short story by Alice Munro: "What he carried with him, all he carried with him, was a lack, something like a lack of air, of proper behavior in his lungs, a difficulty that he supposed would go on forever".
But without nationalism even where the unity of the nation is something of a historic fiction states lack an ideology that enables them to compete as a focus of loyalty with religious sects or ethnic groups.
His return is something of a gamble given a lack of consistent runs this summer, although he made a timely century against an excellent Middlesex attack a little more than a week ago.
The event began in 1998, when three local artists -- Helen Kauder, Marianne Bernstein and Linn Meyers -- decided to do something about a lack of exhibiting opportunities in the city.
With one exception: never, ever employ the phrase "Something's rotten in the state of Denmark" (yes, Hamlet again) to describe something trite like a lack of coffee in the house: a dim buzzing sound will fill the world, as an irate Billy spins in his grave fast enough to shoot him straight to the Earth's molten core.
Likewise, the label "black conservative" has far less to do with an adherence to the politics of William F. Buckley than to something much narrower: a lack of interest in stressing racism as an obstacle to success.
I know that this should be rather obvious since this is 'Chrome OS' and it is something of a netbook – but the lack of any filesystem access means that I won't use this machine for anything more than a hobby (certainly can't use it while traveling)." Still a long, long way to go if even coders aren't happy.
This study suggests something more basic: a lack of time.
