Sentence examples for years lacking from inspiring English sources

Still, social conservatives in New York state have seemed somewhat fragmented in recent years, lacking a galvanizing issue like the death penalty, over which they waged epic battles with Govs.

Significant, then, that The Grand Budapest Hotel is both Anderson's most tightly wound and funniest film in years, lacking the melancholy charm of The Royal Tenenbaums or Moonrise Kingdom perhaps, but more than making up for it in terms of elegantly capering contrivance.

Such a policy based on the principle of "home producers first, empire producers second, and foreign producers last"—was negotiated at the Imperial Economic Conference in Ottawa in 1932 and took the form of a series of bilateral agreements intended to extend for five years (lacking a formal renewal, they expired after 1937).

In the tables that follow, pesticide use is linearly interpolated in years lacking survey data but bounded by reported values.

An analysis of reefs in the region showed that 4% recent mortality normally existed as a background level during surveys in years lacking any major disturbance [47].

When cohort members were aged 4 and 26 years, lacking a higher education was the norm at 97.5% (1.5) and 95.5% (1.8), respectively, with improvements to 80.5% (6.7) by the time they were aged 53 years (1999).

Many of the old houses revived in recent years lack a clear identity.

The "best and the brightest" of the Kennedy-Johnson years lacked a previous Vietnam to serve as a guide to the limits of great power military operations.

When I told him that Naret and the inspector had said that the restaurant, in previous years, lacked consistency and accuracy, he didn't exactly disagree.

Say this for Ms. Moskowitz: Many students in poor neighborhoods have for years lacked quality schools; charters perhaps offer useful competition.

The overall design scope of most microgrippers developed in recent years lacks a systematic mechanism design approach.