Sentence examples for were mostly lacking from inspiring English sources

The comment was largely instinctive and emotional and an understanding of conservation and practical consideration of what might be done were mostly lacking.

The 504 CyOGs missing from the relaxed cores were mostly lacking in cyanobacterium UCYN-A, the two Yellowstone species or in the Prochlorococcus clade and belonged primarily to the General prediction only (R), Energy production (C), Amino acid (E) and Inorganic ion transport and metabolism (P) functional categories.

Differences arose for collections with high linkage and small samples sizes, which biased LD- Ne downward (Wang and Whitlock 2003; Waples and Gaggiotti 2006), and where data were mostly lacking for a single locus, which depressed SA- Ne in 79Big Beef sample.

The uncovered genes (5.5% and 9.7% of total Hexapoda scaffolds based on amino acid sequence identity >40%) were mostly lacking functional annotations, and the annotated fraction was mainly related to universal components of metabolism, development, and basic signaling pathways (supplementary file S5, Supplementary Material online).

Still, long-term planning is mostly lacking.

Transparency has been mostly lacking.

"Talk" is made up entirely of talk; stage directions must be inferred, but action is mostly lacking, anyway.

Notwithstanding the suspiciously chimerical army of 70,000 rebel fighters conjured by Mr Cameron from the northern deserts, capable local ground forces are mostly lacking.

Simple human decency was mostly lacking in the characters in "L.A. Confidential," the adaptation that he co-wrote of James Ellroy's existential classic, and in his half-strangled remake of John Boorman's "Point Blank," the 1999 "Payback".

The data for such reconstructions is mostly lacking, but collection is underway for some model organisms.

Information on the probability distribution of those factors that affect the investment is mostly lacking.