1.   And how can it not mean that when the nation lacks a mechanism for talking about cost, let alone rejecting coverage of expensive treatments that offer meager benefits?

2.   Basic research goes on, but the world has lacked a mechanism for turning promising research into working vaccines.

3.   But the Sun, having no companion star, may lack the mechanism to make a spectacle of its decline and death.

4.   Dictatorships, moreover, lack the mechanisms to keep the brutal or criminally greedy out of politics.

5.   However, the convention on women has lacked enforcement mechanism.

6.   It can be argued that the Oslo accords collapsed because they lacked such mechanisms, relying instead on the desperately diminishing asset of mutual trust.

7.   He said the Czech educational system seemed to lack efficient mechanisms to bar religious and racial hatred from schools.

8.   Singapore has imposed a two-year ban on the export of land mines that lack self-destruct mechanisms, the government said Wednesday.

9.   The West always claims the OSCE lacks the mechanisms, the instruments and the power to act as the main security organization in Europe, he said.

10.   All lacked trigger mechanisms and were apparently only meant to cause public panic, police said.