Jacob, who had deceived and cheated his brother, is in turn deceived and cheated by his relative Laban concerning Jacob's seven years of service ( lacking money for a dowry ) for the hand of Rachel, receiving Leah instead.

Negative Traits: Workaholic, overly ambitious, lacking humanitarian instincts, mismanaging money, repressing subordinates, impatient with people, stressed, materialistic.

They fared no better than many Americans in and out of work during the Great Depression, sometimes lacking enough money to take the subway.

His adult life comprised three distinct periods: as a scientific inquirer lacking money ; achieving great wealth and standing through his reputation for hard work and scrupulous honesty following the great fire of 1666, but eventually becoming ill and party to jealous intellectual disputes.

As money was lacking to recruit mercenaries or train indigenous soldiers, Victor Amadeus signed a peace treaty with Spain.

Hall took a lower salary to join an establishment lacking money, staff, and direction.

Nance had hoped for a total redesign in 1953, but the necessary time and money were lacking.

With time and money again lacking, the 1954 lineup was unchanged except for modified headlights and taillights.

Shortly thereafter, Halmos left for the Institute for Advanced Study, lacking both job and grant money.

Following the Wall Street panic, the government attempted to please foreign creditors by maintaining convertibility according to the money principles preached by the foreign bankers and economists who set the terms for Brazil's relations with the world economy, despite lacking any support from a single major sector in Brazilian society.

Low on money and lacking coverage and promotion, the band recorded their second album, Strip-mine, attempting a more conventional song structure in an attempt to please Sire.

The airport had been a jetport for a long time, but it had been lacking the size to receive larger numbers of passengers until Aeropuertos Argentina 2000, a private company that operates several airports in Argentina, decided to give internal Argentine airports more money so that they could expand and lure more airlines.

Still lacking sufficient money, Zeckendorf was forced to make $ 1000 per day penalty payments to Fox.

On 4 September, faced with the threat of a Spanish reprisal, and still lacking money and adequate reinforcements, he abandoned his plans to conquer Florida and departed Fernandina with most of his officers, leaving a small detachment of men at Fort San Carlos to defend the island.

In an act of desperation, lacking money and food, he shoots his geese in an attempt to provide dinner.

Because of its role as a traditional money commodity some individuals give a reference display of this fetish by seeing gold as the only ' real ' money, even in the current time when most money is lacking any substantial form whatsoever, even paper.

An hour later she was turned out of 18 Thrawl Street as she was lacking fourpence for a bed, implying by her last recorded words that she would soon earn the money on the street with the help of a new bonnet she had acquired.

Men considered fit to command but lacking resources were given money to purchase horses and received the salaries of the men only.

People lacking money could exchange coconuts for cloth.

In other words, the activities continued because they received money from Congress, which carried implicit authority but actual authority was still lacking.

:" Unfortunately, I can ’ t recommend the Coldheat soldering iron to the average electronics constructor unless they are extremely accident-prone, lacking confidence or have a real need to go cordless: they should save money and buy an ordinary electric iron instead.

Or, lacking money from the Patowmack Company, he wished to concentrate his efforts on the more promising steam pump.

But, here again, comparative benchmarks are lacking, and we do not know, in any case, what measure of profoundity and intensity to expect from healthy, young, secure and relatively inexperienced persons ; ;

The assisting musicians from the Vienna Octet are somewhat lacking in expertise, but their contribution is rustic and appealing.

However, lacking requested reinforcements from McClellan, now commanding the Army of the Potomac, Pope was soundly defeated at the Second Battle of Bull Run in the summer of 1862, forcing the Army of the Potomac to defend Washington for a second time.

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Alligators differ from crocodiles principally in having wider and shorter heads, with more obtuse snouts ; in having the fourth, enlarged tooth of the under jaw received, not into an external notch, but into a pit formed for it within the upper one ; in lacking a jagged fringe which appears on the hind legs and feet of the crocodile ; in having the toes of the hind feet webbed not more than half way to the tips ; and an intolerance to salinity, alligators strongly preferring fresh water, while crocodiles can tolerate salt water due to specialized glands for filtering out salt.

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Both these charges were later found to be considerably lacking in evidence ; nevertheless Pike, facing arrest, escaped into the hills of Arkansas, sending his resignation from the Confederate Army on July 12.

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Alexander Pope implied the architecture is rather dull, lacking either the vigour of the baroque style which was fading from fashion at the time, or the austere grandeur of the Palladian style which was just coming into vogue.

As Whorf became more influenced by positivist science he also distanced himself from some approaches to language and meaning that he saw as lacking in rigor and insight.

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While the definitive studies are lacking, the former view received support from a 2004 meta-analysis of 13 small studies.

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The lack of credible governance was compounded by the fact that most colonies were economic loss-makers at independence, lacking both a productive economic base and a taxation system to effectively extract resources from economic activity.

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The nucleobases are classified into two types: the purines, A and G, being fused five-and six-membered heterocyclic compounds, and the pyrimidines, the six-membered rings C and T. A fifth pyrimidine nucleobase, uracil ( U ), usually takes the place of thymine in RNA and differs from thymine by lacking a methyl group on its ring.

As well, the need for key trace impurities of tungsten or vanadium within the materials needed for production of the steel may be absent if this material was acquired from different production regions or smelted from ores lacking these key trace elements.

The British provinces were isolated, lacking support from the Empire, and the soldiers supported the revolts of Marcus ( 406 – 407 ), Gratian ( 407 ), and Constantine III.

The exploitation of prison labor, the system of squeezing ‘ golden sweat ’ from them, the organization of production in places of confinement, which while profitable from a commercial point of view is fundamentally lacking in corrective significance – these are entirely inadmissible in Soviet places of confinement .”