11.   Corruption is rife, judicial systems are weak, and local governments often lack authority and adequate finances.

12.   Critics have charged that the government lacks coherence and ministers continue to contradict one another.

13.   Critics warn that Latin American governments lack credible checks and balances and that several years in power can turn democrats into autocrats.

14.   Even Martino, the Italian defense minister, said he feared that the government might lack the nerve to take on the unions.

15.   For one thing, the government lacks the administrative capacity to process many land transfers quickly.

16.   For the most part, the governments lack the resources to protect these isolated preserves.

17.   For while the Mexican government lacked the cash to redeem its debts, almost everyone agreed that it was not insolvent.

18.   His government has lacked an assured parliamentary majority for many months.

19.   His government lacked metaphor.

20.   However, the federal government lacks the resources to bring more than a handful of enforcement suits.