But the cleanups never reached the section of the river in the South Bronx, a part of the city that has always lacked political influence.
The Boston bombings are being reported on and viewed strictly in the context of a "war on terror" started by President Bush in the aftermath of the World Trade Center bombings and continued with vigor by the Obama administration, an imprudent war that has always lacked any true definition of enemy or purpose.
This shouldn't mean that students always lack confidence, but rather the opposite: that all stakeholders in education clarify that learning is a messy process chock-full of uncertainty, iteration and revision, and that anything tidy stemming from this untidy process should be questioned.
If a trans woman is attracted to women, this does not mean that she always lacked a "feminine and soft nature" (whatever Addams thinks this means), that her sexuality was never called into question by others, that she was not "a participant in LGBT culture," or that she was never attracted to men.
Still, you'd fancy Davis in a fair fight – even his friends will tell you that Straw always lacked the killer instinct.
He surfaced with Baltimore the next season, and a 1996 trade to the Seattle Mariners, a team that always seemed to lack pitching depth, became his big break.
Conventional wisdom, supported by the press, has allowed Israel to promote the idea that it has always lacked a partner at our end.
Earlier this year, Postman Pat: The Movie took a fluffy television series about rural village niceness and added in the one element that it had always lacked: a megalomaniac who planned to conquer the world with his army of cybermen.
At the center of the story is a sturdy dramatic device that "Downton" has always lacked: a well-defined love triangle with three sharp points — in this case, involving Tietjens, his captivating and villainous wife Sylvia, and his true love, a young suffragette named Valentine Wannop, whom we first meet during an uproarious chase scene on a golf course.
At the center of the story is a sturdy dramatic device that "Downton" has always lacked: a well-defined love triangle with three sharp points—in this case, involving Tietjens, his captivating and villainous wife Sylvia, and his true love, a young suffragette named Valentine Wannop, whom we first meet during an uproarious chase scene on a golf course.
