"the document lacks" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it when discussing what is missing from a document or what a document does not contain. For example, "The document lacks important financial data for the last two years."
The problem is not that the document lacks lofty ideals or is considered unimportant.
After it was published on the plaintiffs' website, Chiapas's attorney-general issued a statement saying that the document "lacks authenticity" and that "its origins and the ends that it pursues are unknown".
"The document lacks a solid foundation in the Sacred Scriptures and the Magisterium," thundered Cardinal Raymond Burke, who heads the Vatican's most senior court – and who was a key figure on the body that chooses new Catholic bishops until Pope Francis ousted him last year.
Claims that the document lacks a raised seal or a signature are false.
There is no legal requirement that I am aware of to ignore written requests that persons have made simply because the documents lack certain formal characteristics (signatures, witnessing, special language) required by state laws.
Although the documents prescribe briefly 'review of' and 'compliance with' current legislation dealing with alcohol or the impact of the misuse of alcohol, the documents lack specific reference to any existing legislation in the alcohol field in three of the countries or any discussion of how these could be implemented more effectively.
And the voluminous document lacks juicy details like the firm's valuation or the compensation of its top executives.
Possible influential factors included: structural aspects (the format, the moment that the document was given, the double registration of data), lack of information about the objectives and the importance of the document, lack of ownership by the patient and / or the health care professionals involved and the ability or the motivation of the patient to realize the expected role.
The entire document lacks much coherence.
12 21 43 Thus, our results again confirm the documented lack of comprehensible or at least measurable sense in the chargemaster system.
These data are reminiscent of the documented lack of mitochondria in PR terminals in Drp1 mutants (Verstreken et al., 2005).
