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Example sentences for: lacks

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The current DCI is responsible for community performance but lacks the three authorities critical for any agency head or chief executive officer: (1) control over purse strings, (2) the ability to hire or fire senior managers, and (3) the ability to set standards for the information infrastructure and personnel.
He lacks the press savvy of Clinton.
If anything, he's learned that NATO lacks the political will to punish him.
New Editor David Remnick's first issue lacks none of Brown's obsession with entertainment: It includes a profile of a CBS executive and Newsweek -style hype for Saving Private Ryan (disguised as an interview with Steven Spielberg).
It suffers from one severe, reprehensible shortcoming: it lacks an index, something no book should be without.