1.   He refused a seat on the dominion council because the new government lacked a representative assembly.

2.   And the government lacks money and manpower to fight all the fires, much less arrest wrongdoers.

3.   Bailar said the federal government lacks up-to-date knowledge about possible agents that could poison the food supply, or about their effects, treatment or prevention.

4.   Because the United States has cut its economic ties to several nations that could be most helpful, the government also lacks vital financial information.

5.   Adding to the concern is a prevailing feeling that the Japan government lacks a serious policy to counteract the dismal financial and economic situation.

6.   After opening steady, the peso slumped amid persistent concern that the government may lack the ability to lift the Mexican economy out of its doldrums.

7.   But in the other categories, the report found, the government Web sites lacked rigid privacy and security standards.

8.   But the E. coli problem starts in the gut of the animal, and at present the government lacks authority to trace bacteria back to conditions at the farm.

9.   But the private firms have expertise the government lacks, so hiring contractors to make the EDGAR data available immediately made sense.

10.   Civil servants often go unpaid for months because the government lacks the cash to meet its payroll.