11.   Such attacks strike human life at the time of its greatest frailty, when it lacks any means of self-defense.

12.   The new government has been reluctant to turn its prisoners over to an international tribunal, but lacks the means for conducting fair trials on its own.

13.   The schools are also in a better financial position to help families who may lack the means to pay the full tuition.

14.   The poorer ones lack the means to get out, and keep getting caught.

15.   The State Department has long lacked the means for spotting terrorists who apply for visas.

16.   Their justified postwar goal is to get rid of Milosevic, but their dilemma is that they may lack the means to achieve it.

17.   They have followed Marcos into a dead end, and for all his mediagenic skills, he lacks the means to get them out.

18.   Walk the streets of Kabul, and you find a devastated city lacking fundamental means of recovery.

19.   Well-connected, profitable companies thumb their noses at the government, while hard-pressed companies stay alive from barter insisting they lack the means to pay what they owe.

20.   When the mother fell ill several years ago, Roth said, she and her spendthrift husband lacked the means to pay for high-quality medical care.