The late 20th century sea level rise rate lacks any sign of acceleration. Satellite altimetry indicates virtually no changes in the last decade.
I am burning. If anyone lacks tinder, let him set his rubbish ablaze with my fire.
No one who likes a song lacks congeniality.
Without communism. . . our state lacks a Wizard of Oz to terrify all the people all the time. So the state looks inward, at the true enemy, who turns out to be - who else? the people of the United States.
I am very optimistic about the long run prospects for democracy in China. Chinese society is being dramatically and rapidly transformed. And there’s rising evidence that the new generation not only lacks faith in communism anymore, they think it’s a joke. They’re very cynical about their leadership and they want democratic change.
No tyranny is more cruel than the one practised in the shadow of the laws and under color of justice - when, so to speak, one proceeds to drown the unfortunate on the very plank by which they had saved themselves. And since a tyrant never lacks instruments for his tyranny, Tiberius always found judges ready to condemn as many people as he might suspect.
Anger is a divinely implanted emotion. Closely allied to our instinct for right, it is designed to be used for constructive spiritual purposes. The person who cannot feel anger at evil is a person who lacks enthusiasm for good. If you cannot hate wrong, it's very questionable whether you really love righteousness.
Faith without thankfulness lacks strength and fortitude.
You can tell a lot about what a man lacks by watching what he is cynical about, and many of us are cynical about love.
The greatest trouble with most of us is that our demands upon ourselves are so feeble, the call upon the great within of us so weak and intermittent that it makes no impression upon the creative energies; it lacks the force that transmutes desires into realities.
It is said that love makes the world go 'round - the announcement lacks verification. It's wind from the dinner horn that does it.
A man who will not get scared on some occasions, lacks good sense.
What Bollywood lacks is scripts. A lot of the films are copies of western films.
If the staff lacks policy guidance against which to test decisions, their decisions will be random.
Never get so attached to a poem that you forget truth that lacks lyricism.
What culture lacks is the taste for anonymous, innumerable germination. Culture is smitten with counting and measuring; it feels out of place and uncomfortable with the innumerable; its efforts tend, on the contrary, to limit the numbers in all domains; it tries to count on its fingers.
Do not accept anything as love which lacks truth.
autumn days have a holiness that spring lacks. . . They are like old serene saints for whom death has lost its terror.
He lacks much who has no aptitude for idleness.
The EU lacks a story. For previous generations, the peace argument was a sufficient. But what story do I tell my 20-year-old son? How do I explain to him that we need the EU for the future?