This project, which lacked neither ability nor audacity, foundered upon Louis XV's invincible jealousy of the growth of Russian influence in eastern Europe and his fear of offending the Porte.

He gained a certain amount of theoretical support from some of the German princes after his marriage to Elizabeth, daughter of Otto the Child, Duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg, in 1252 ; but, although " William lacked neither courage nor chivalrous qualities ... his power never extended beyond the Rhineland.

Dr Nicholas Metcalfe was then master of the college, " a papist, indeed, and if any young man given to the new learning as they termed or went beyond his fellows ," he " lacked neither open praise, nor private exhibition.

However, the agency announced it would neither be able to list the tree as endangered nor protect the organism, as it lacked both the necessary staff and funding to do so.

The game lacked the luster the rivalry has carried, as there was no Tom Brady, no undefeated season on the line, and neither team was in 1st place of their division.

This ruling was then appealed to the United States Supreme Court, by Sheriff Eisenstadt, who had prosecuted the case, on the ground that Baird lacked standing to appeal, being neither an authorized distributor under the statute nor a single person.

" Hinds wrote that James M. Ridenour, director of the Park Service, said that Steamtown was among other projects that the agency neither needed nor wanted, adding that the same collection was rejected by them when it was still in Vermont because it " lacked historic importance ".

They criticized Cobb's work on passage of salmon over dams complaining that he was unqualified to do so because he lacked training as a scientist and was neither a biologist nor an engineer .< sup ></ sup > Complaints about his " science " also reached the news media .< sup ></ sup >

Dowler praised the scenes featuring Storm as the most compelling, despite not having been a particularly avid fan of that character, and the artwork, saying that the pencils, coloring and storytelling were " all on target ", but criticized other aspects of the book, including the characterization, the pacing of the action scenes, and the story, which he felt was neither original nor complete, lacked character insight, and did not serve as a worthy finale to the X-Men.

** Seigneur possessor of a lordship ; strictly, it was neither a title nor a rank, merely indicating that the person lacked a noble title yet owned a piece of feudal land.

His reign was a disaster because he lacked courage and political savvy.

His pride wounded upon seeing that Nanahuatzin had the courage that he lacked, Tecciztecatl jumps upon the burning pyre after him.

Brauchitsch lacked the courage to oppose Hitler directly, but agreed to Beck's request for a meeting of senior commanders.

By the time of the second Neo Zeon movement, the Earth Federation had regained their military strength but lacked any political courage to fight it.

Aureliano arrives in a basket and Fernanda is tempted to kill the child in order to avoid shame, but instead claims he is an orphan in order to cover up her daughter's promiscuity and is forced to " tolerate him against her will for the rest of her life because at the moment of truth she lacked the courage to go through with her inner determination to drown him ...".

He encountered Sarpedon on the first day of fighting recounted in the Iliad and taunted him saying that he lacked courage and could not really be the son of Zeus.

Through these live dialogues, he examined common but critical concepts that lacked clear or concrete definitions, such as beauty and truth, and the virtues of piety, wisdom, temperance, courage, and justice.

I regard them as being, perhaps more than any other three men, responsible for the fact that we are involved in a war which the wise collective organisation of peace could have prevented, and just as they lacked courage, initiative, imagination, psychological understanding, liveliness and self-respect in the conduct of foreign policy, so I feel that the absence of those qualities has manifested itself in the actual conduct of the war.

While Turner always displayed great personal courage while under fire, he lacked the acumen for brigade-and division-sized tactics, and the men under his command during World War I suffered grievous losses in several battles before he was moved into administrative roles.

During this time, according to Italian and Polish reports, Ukrainian forces enjoyed high morale ( an Italian observor behind Galician lines stated that the Ukrainians were fighting with the " courage of the doomed ") while many of the Polish soldiers, particularly from what had been Congress Poland, wanted to return home because they saw no reason to fight against Ruthenians over Ruthenian lands ; the Polish forces were outnumbered by two to one and lacked ammunition.

Regnak Wanderer ( Rek for short ) an ex-army officer and natural ' baresark ', seeing a war brewing, resigned his commission because he lacked the courage to risk his life and took to a life of wandering.

He longed for the release of death, but lacked the courage to commit suicide.

Tan, Soe's childhood friend, had always deeply admired Soe's prudence and courage but lacked that fighter's spirit himself.

The latter type lacked any formal organization to regulate output or prices, nor did they contain any provisions for forfeiture in the event of an infraction.

It lacked deposits of gold or other precious metals, nor did it have established native civilizations to subject to the encomienda.

For the Creator conceived that a being which was self-sufficient would be far more excellent than one which lacked anything ; and, as he had no need to take anything or defend himself against any one, the Creator did not think it necessary to bestow upon him hands: nor had he any need of feet, nor of the whole apparatus of walking ; but the movement suited to his spherical form which was designed by him, being of all the seven that which is most appropriate to mind and intelligence ; and he was made to move in the same manner and on the same spot, within his own limits revolving in a circle.

21 For forty years you sustained them in the wilderness ; they lacked nothing, their clothes did not wear out nor did their feet become swollen.

In this matter he did not accept the universal primacy of the emperor, the authority of the pope ( because the pope, according to him, lacked temporal power ), nor the claim of voluntary submission or conversion of the Native Americans.

the censorship of Plancus and Paullus, which, exercised as it was with mutual discord, was little credit to themselves or little benefit to the state, for the one lacked the force, the other the character, in keeping with the office ; Paullus was scarcely capable of filling the censor's office, while Plancus had only too much reason to fear it, nor was there any charge which he could make against young men, or hear others make, of which he, old though he was, could not recognize himself as guilty.

Wisden described in his obituary Gregory's playing style thus: " Like many Australia batsmen in those early days, he had no grace of style to recommend him, but his defence was stubborn and he lacked nether pluck nor patience " and attributes his lack of successful scores to the pitches rather than his talent.

Some people thought he lacked both ability and character, but most agreed that he was noble in appearance and, for a Russian, humane.

What remained lacked the original verve but it was at least dignified, as befitting the tragic circumstances.

One century later, their use of the symbols which became 2, 7 and 9 was recorded, but Brahmi numerals lacked a symbol for 0.

The first version of Applesoft was released in 1977 only on cassette tape and lacked proper support for high-resolution graphics.

While Applesoft was slower than Integer BASIC, it had many features that the older BASIC lacked:

They observed that the TRS-80 was a great computer but it lacked in several areas.

While the atypical ( second-generation ) antipsychotics were marketed as offering greater efficacy in reducing psychotic symptoms while reducing side effects ( and Extrapyramidal symptoms in particular ) than typical medications, the results showing these effects often lacked robustness, and the assumption was increasingly challenged even as atypical prescriptions were soaring.

When he became a Franciscan and thus created a formal Franciscan school of theology at Paris, it was soon clear that his students lacked some of the basic tools for the discipline.

Cincinnati's new quarterback, Virgil Carter, was known for his great mobility and accuracy but lacked a strong arm necessary to throw deep passes.

The Liberals now found themselves with 59 members holding the balance of power in a Parliament where Labour was the largest party but lacked an overall majority.

It happened because the German aircraft industry lacked the experience to build a long-range bomber fleet quickly, and because Hitler was insistent on the very rapid creation of a numerically large force.

Its design period was protracted, with various development problems exacerbated by the fact that designers lacked information on the actual size and weight of the proposed boosted-fission warhead Green Bamboo, or its likely thermonuclear successor derived from the Granite series.

The Rising initially lacked wide public support within Ireland, and was suppressed by the British military authorities within a week.

It was clearly unpopular in the parishes of Devon and Cornwall where, along with severe social problems, its introduction was one of the causes of the " commotions ", or rebellions in the summer of that year, partly because many Cornish people lacked sufficient English to understand it ,.

Chaplin was cynical about this new medium and the technical shortcomings it presented, believing that " talkies " lacked the artistry of silent films.

" The relative status of various humans, some of whom had modern advanced technologies that included engines and telegraphs, while others lacked anything but face-to-face communication techniques and still lived a Paleolithic lifestyle, was of interest to the first generation of cultural anthropologists.

Parking nightmares had plagued the city as far back as the 1950s, the little park lacked modern amenities, and New York City, which in 1957 had lost both its National League teams ( the Dodgers and the Giants ) to Los Angeles and San Francisco, respectively, was actively courting Reds owner Powel Crosley.

At the turn of the century, the Seminary lacked a source of permanent funding and was ordaining on average no more than one Rabbi per year.

The League was well-attended, at least in some cities, but was underfunded and its owners lacked the confidence to continue beyond the one season.

Mandarin Chinese Guoyu (" Nation-Language "), was promoted as an standard tongue, and the establishment of communications facilities ( including radio ) were used to encourage a sense of Chinese nationalism in a way that was not possible when the nation lacked an effective central government.

The land was reclaimed by nature, but the secondary forests usually lacked the original biodiversity.

New York Dada lacked the disillusionment of European Dada and was instead driven by a sense of irony and humor.