A common assault is an assault that lacks any of the aggravating features which Parliament has deemed serious enough to deserve a higher penalty.

He repeats Acheson's argument that the region lacks major urban centres, but adds that the Maritimes were also lacking the great rivers that led to the cheap and abundant hydro-electric power, key to Quebec and Ontario's urban and manufacturing development, that the extraction costs of Maritime resources were higher ( particularly in the case of Cape Breton coal ), and that the soils of the region were poorer and thus the agricultural sector weaker.

As Florence lacks a prevailing wind, summer temperatures are higher than along the coast.

X also lacks support for user-defined stored procedures on the X server, which might have allowed for the dynamic construction of higher order primitives as seen in NeWS, which could reduce bandwidth demands from requiring fewer primitives to be sent, and improve certain types of interaction by removing round trips to the remote X client program in some varieties of menu interactions, picking, window management, and so on.

It is thicker than the mammalian retina and has a higher metabolic activity, but it lacks proper vasculature.

Some inland areas where soil and water lacks in iodine compounds and consumption of marine foods is low are known for higher incidence of goitre.

Because they are located at a higher elevation than Lima, they receive more sunshine in winter months, something that the city of Lima frequently lacks under seasonal fog.

AGA also lacks flicker free higher resolution modes, being only able to display 640x480 at 72Hz flicker-free operation.

However, the book lacks a finale to match that description ; its actual ending focuses more on Zarathustra recognizing that his legacy is beginning to perpetuate, and consequently choosing to leave the higher men to their own devices in carrying his legacy forth.

Where a rider lacks the fitness required to ride a particular class of trail, they may become fatigued, putting themselves at a higher risk of having an accident.

Unlike its higher neighbours, the hill just misses out on the magic height of 3, 000 ft, and therefore lacks any peaks of Munro status.

Although good, dutiful and not one to plot, the crown princess lacks higher qualities.

Membership is also possible at a chapter elsewhere than the man's place of higher education if that place lacks a chapter.

Since Bomberman lacks the ability to jump, higher areas that do not have a path leading to them must be reached by bouncing across bombs-typically this requires the " remote " power-up to avoid the normally timed bombs exploding early.

On Rotten Tomatoes, the film has a 15 % " Rotten " approval rating, slightly higher than the first movie, based on the reviews of 65 film critics, with the consensus being, " Despite being somewhat more exciting than the previous film, this kiddy flick still lacks any real adventure or excitement.

Researcher Michael Shoemaker, while noting some similarities to spider monkeys, argues that the creature has a few pronounced differences: its chest and hands are different ; its face is much more oval than the spider monkey's distinctively triangular visage ; it lacks the spider monkey ’ s pronounced underbite ; and has a much higher forehead than spider monkeys.

The crater is a circular, bowl-shaped feature with a slightly higher albedo than the surrounding terrain, but lacks the skirt of bright ejecta that many young impacts possess.

The population lacks education and productive skills, particularly in the poverty-ridden countryside, which suffers from an almost total lack of basic infrastructure.

In the process of transition to a knowledge economy, it particularly lacks investment into education and a broader application of IT.

Leuchter not only lacks an engineering license but has neither an engineering degree nor any other relevant professional certification or recognized credential-his education consists of a BA in history, which he completed in 1964.

When for example a pupil has entered secondary education at a level it cannot cope with, or when it lacks the interest to spend effort on its education resulting in poor grades, it can be sent from vwo to havo, from havo to vmbo, and from any level of vmbo to a lower level of vmbo.

On the education aspect, there lacks a clear accommodation classification system and qualified hospitality personnel.

Mapuche lacks substantive protection or promotion, despite the Chilean government's commitment to improve the situation and provide full access to education in Mapuche areas in southern Chile.

Meyer serves as McGee's anchor when McGee's own inner compass seems to be skewed, as well as providing the formal education that the street-smart McGee lacks.

She descends from a long, distinguished line of magi, and though she lacks a formal magic education, she is extremely powerful and gifted in her own right.

Due to its isolation and small population many parents choose to send their children away to boarding schools to further their secondary education, particularly university-bound students, as Tom Price Senior High lacks the student numbers to fulfil the required class numbers set by the Department of Education and Training for many Tertiary Entrance Examination ( TEE ) subjects.

In relation to its size, population, and economic strength of Saharanpur District and in comparison to the educational facilities in neighbouring districts, the city lacks adequate infrastructure for advanced education and research.

This approach quantifies the number of poor individuals and households but does not take into account how the impoverished population lacks basic needs such as housing, food, health and education.

The city lacks institutions offering post secondary education for men.

Although Equatorial Guinea lacks a well-established democratic tradition comparable to the developed democracies of the West, it has progressed toward developing a participatory political system out of the anarchic, chaotic, and repressive conditions of the Macias years.

For example, the giant amoeba Pelomyxa lacks mitochondria but has aerobic bacteria that carry out a similar role.

** The U. S. Supreme Court rules the FDA lacks authority to regulate tobacco as an addictive drug, throwing out the Clinton Administration's main anti-smoking initiative

The independent Fitch Ratings credit-rating agency downgraded the city of Chicago's bond rating in August 2010, citing the Daley administration ’ s habit of drawing on reserve funds for general operating expenses and underpaying its pension funds since well before the recession started, and pointed out the city lacks a plan for developing new revenue and faces a rising tide of fixed operating costs.

Spectral observations indicate that the surface regolith layer lacks hydration, but ice below the regolith is not ruled out.

The sequel, Romance of the Harem ( 1873 ), incorporates tales based on palace gossip, including the king's alleged torture and execution of one of his concubines, Tuptim ; the story lacks independent corroboration and is dismissed as out of character for the king by some critics.

This group typically lacks direction and may drift in and out of the gang depending on the current activities of the gang.

The city lacks the funding to carry out the demolition of condemned buildings, so empty storefronts and abandoned houses plague the area.

American journalist Michael Lewis has pointed out that modern Greek culture lacks any tradition of volunteerism and altruism and is afflicted by extraordinarily high levels of selfishness and corruption, which culminated in the present Greek government-debt crisis.

But the eye area of the female is always darker, making the light eye stand out, while the male's head is altogether not very contrastingly colored and the female lacks the grey wing-patch and tail.

Because Mario lacks the ability to jump, the player must figure out the optimal order in which to destroy objects — for example, if a player destroys a ladder too soon, a wall may become unreachable and thus the player cannot finish the level.

Its highly extensible user interface is plain and utilitarian " out of the box ", and lacks a built-in help feature.

Bobby says he did it because Cindy never had sex with him and Bobby gleefully points out that even though their plan lacks sense it doesn't matter, since horror movies are not noted for their logic, they also say that are just copying the killer and are not the actual killers (" We're copying a killer that already exists .").

James Berardinelli of Reelviews. net gave the film three stars out of four stating, " What the storyline lacks in ambition, it makes up for in sheer, unfettered likability.

In 1998, India carried out nuclear tests and a few days later, Pakistan responded by more nuclear tests giving both countries nuclear deterrence capability, although India had exploded three hydrogen bombs which Pakistan lacks.

Although the book contains numerous footnotes, references and acknowledgments, critics point out that it lacks supporting references for Chinese voyages beyond East Africa, the location acknowledged by professional historians as the limit of the fleet's travels.

The MS M. 383, on the other hand, lacks a dedication and claims to have been laid out according to his own intelligence.

X-Play considers Pokémon Channel as an example for a game deserving a 0 out of 5 score, following the belief that Pokémon Channel is not truly a game because it really lacks a sense of interactivity.

“ Naturally, if one has a positive self-concept and lacks a sense of shame, that person will speak out regardless of how she or he perceives the climate of public opinion .”

Though it grants him more speed, this version lacks the regular Drive B height ; due to the topsin, it curves towards the ground instead of going out.

The coach, Waqar Younis, fell out with Afridi and in his report on the tour criticised Afridi, saying " as a captain he is very immature, has poor discipline, lacks a gameplan and is unwilling to listen to others ' opinions or advice ".

As the pistol lacks a shell extractor, relying instead on blowback pressure to clear the shells, misfires are easily removed manually by tipping up the barrel and prying out.

One of these compounds, 2, 5-dimethyl-celecoxib, which entirely lacks the ability to inhibit COX-2, actually turned out to display stronger anticancer activity than celecoxib itself.

" Roger Ebert gave Lethal Weapon 4 two stars out of four, writing: " Lethal Weapon 4 has all the technical skill of the first three movies in the series, but lacks the secret weapon, which was conviction.