1.   Certainly the final lacked electricity and, taking its cue from its participants, a clear sense of momentum or championship resolve.

2.   Fertilizer plants went idle, tractors had little fuel, irrigation pumps lacked electricity and food production plummeted.

3.   Most villagers still lack even electricity and piped water.

4.   Rosas grew up in a place so remote that many houses lack electricity.

5.   Residents of the building said it was infested with rats, mice and roaches, and that it sometimes lacked electricity.

6.   Surrounded by towering oil company gas flares that lit the sky, the city itself, lacking electricity, sank into darkness.

7.   The city still lacks electricity, and the orphanage has no generator.

8.   The energy crisis also means that everyone from distributors to homemakers lacks the electricity needed to keep his brands of milk, ice cream and yogurt from spoiling.

9.   The house lacked electricity, running water and telephone service.

10.   The oil boom has transformed Yopal from a sleepy town that lacked electricity five years ago into a raucous city.