21.   Even the Palestinians that Peres hopes to meet with have expressed concern that he lacks the authority to negotiate broadly with them.

22.   For example, Hale has complained that Indian courts lack authority to prosecute non-Indians who commit crimes in Indian Country, even for misdemeanors.

23.   Further, FDA inspectors lack the authority to stop food imports automatically from countries known to have weak food safety systems.

24.   --Government officials lacked the authority to enforce their own recommendations that high-risk Americans get the flu vaccine first.

25.   He believes the United States lacked authority to annex Texas when it was a separate nation.

26.   Her readings lack authority and the spark of personality needed to connect with viewers.

27.   His face was grayer and his patent leather hair thinner, and his voice lacked the authority it had when he projected his rosy appraisals in public.

28.   In fact, the Stet sale has been delayed because Italy lacks an authority to regulate the prices of telephone calls.

29.   In other words, Western society largely lacks authorities who can keep certain spiritual ideas in check and discourage people from experimenting with them.

30.   Industry lawyers had argued that the state lacked the authority to bring such a suit, which is modeled on nationwide tobacco litigation.