Lacking any support beyond his immediate household, he was forced to flee for his life.

Lacking any source of adequate funds, they revived an 1864 Haitian law, discovered by Butler, requiring peasants to perform labor on local roads in lieu of paying a road tax.

Lacking, however, was any immediate indication that the Carías administration was destined to survive any longer than most of its predecessors.

Lacking any male child and heir Augustus married his only daughter Julia to his nephew Marcus Claudius Marcellus.

Lacking a solid power base in the Empire, his rule remained contested by the mighty House of Luxembourg, though Wenceslaus himself did not take any action to regain his title.

Lacking any great industrial, religious or strategic importance, Shiraz became an administrative centre, although its population has nevertheless grown considerably since the 1979 revolution.

Lacking any identification, Almásy serves as a sort of blank canvas onto which the other characters project their wishes.

Lacking any catalysts for change in the 14th century, Eastern European peasants largely continued upon the original medieval path until the 18th and 19th centuries.

Lacking any formal musical training, he needed a teacher, and was introduced by Kateřina Kolářová's mother to Josef Proksch, head of the Prague Music Institute – where Kateřina was now studying.

Lacking direction, Ben wandered into an alleyway where he encountered a shadowy figure who told him that any action he takes would simply create another universe where he took the opposite action, so he might as well do what felt good.

Lacking any mineral resources, being far from any navigable watercourses and being in close proximity to other larger centres such as Aalst, Dendermonde and Brussels, Asse never developed into an important commercial, political or industrial centre but remained a locally important market town.

Lacking any better plan they decided on a frontal assault the following day.

Lacking a unified nationwide organization, the Vietnamese national movement, though still vigorous, failed to take advantage of the difficulties France was experiencing as a result of war to stage any significant uprisings.

Lacking any military power of his own, he had to play Duan, Zhili leader Cao Kun, and Fengtian leader Zhang Zuolin against each other to stay in power.

Lacking the context for individual quipus, it is difficult to guess what any given code might mean.

Lacking any news channels, Hubbard instead used its in-house All News Channel, operated as a cooperative of Hubbard-owned stations.

Lacking any real style ( and appearing to be shot with a standard consumer-level DV-cam ), they were designed to " fill in the gaps " between the five films and featured a man who appeared to be tracking " The Driver ", finding " clues " usually scribbled, in pen, on small pieces of paper.

Lacking any reserves and possessing only limited artillery support, the division's engineers prepared the bridges over the rivers for detonation.

Lacking any landing gear, it would have been necessary for the Snark to skid to a stop on a flat, level surface.

Lacking a different secondary title, the heirs apparent to the earldom have continued to use, without any legal basis, Lord North as a courtesy title.

Lacking strong support from the domestic security services, Sarkis failed to have any impact or success in any of his initiatives.

Lacking a significant passage, they are a form of gallery grave.

Lacking a dominant genius or a formal structure for research ( the following century had both Sir Isaac Newton and the Royal Society ), the Elizabethan era nonetheless saw significant scientific progress.

Lacking a flowing stream that would have provided water power, Richland never developed significant industry and remained a sleepy farm community until the late twentieth century.

Lacking any significant outside support, the convention capitulated.

Lacking a strong political representation in a state dominated by Pashtuns, minority communities commonly looked to pious learned or charismatically revered pirs ( saints ) for leadership.

Lacking in support from either the military or the political parties, Abe was replaced by Mitsumasa Yonai in January 1940.

Lacking the political judgement of his father, he began to upset this by moving into more dangerous areas.

Lacking the oratory skills of Duplessis, his main political competitor, Godbout is sometimes judged very severely.

Lacking the tools to do this and absent a political party with which to stake his run, he was approached by a founding member of the Likud party and participant in the Zo Artzeinu protests who proposed that Feiglin register for the Likud party and register, in turn, the thousands who participated in the protests, thereby building a support base for himself in the party and running for the party leadership, thereby attaining Prime Ministerial candidacy .< ref > Feiglin, Moshe .< u > מלחמת החלומות </ u >, Manhigut Yehudit: 2005, pp. 378-382 .</ ref > At present, Feiglin has an estimated 12, 000-15, 000 loyalists in the party, making Manhigut Yehudit the largest consolidated faction in the Likud's approximately 100, 000 strong party membership.

Lacking financial backing, the " White Freedom Party " is currently dormant.

Lacking the ability to offer utilities as an inducement for developers to annex to Kildeer, other concessions were negotiated so as to expand the village limits.

Lacking both capital and resources for the new, truly modern products it needed to offer, the company turned to Renault for a $ 90 million loan ( US $ in dollars ).

Lacking valuable resources, they can only offer food and shelter in payment.

" Lacking all self-assurance in such matters, he felt obliged to bow to the opinions of his friends, ' the experts ,' to permit ... revisions and even to help make them in some cases.

Lacking a technological base at first, the Germans imported their engineering and hardware from Britain, but quickly learned the skills needed to operate and expand the railways.

Lacking a technological base at first, the Germans imported their engineering and hardware from Britain, but quickly learned the skills needed to operate and expand the railways.

Lacking purpose-built landing craft and both doctrinal and practical experience with amphibious warfare, the Navy was largely improvising from scratch.

Lacking studio financing, Cassavetes mortgaged his house and borrowed from family and friends, one of whom was Peter Falk, who liked the screenplay so much he invested $ 500, 000 in the project.

Lacking the two-thirds majority necessary in both houses of the Legislature to submit constitutional amendments to the electorate, in 2004 the Popular Democratic Party's then-majority approved legislation to hold a referendum, not on a particular constitutional amendment as such, but on the general concept of switching from a bicameral to a unicameral system which was held on July 10, 2005.

Lacking in military enterprise, secluded and pleasure-loving, he seldom emerged from his palace life at Palermo.

Lacking a mouth, opalines feed by taking in nutrients from their surroundings by pinocytosis.

Lacking individual names, the metatarsal bones are numbered from the medial side ( side of great toe ): the first, second, third, fourth, and fifth metatarsal.

Lacking sufficient money, income or assets, people may be effectively excluded from participation.

Lacking the liquidity to invest in the scheme, and looking to cash in on the publicity from an ongoing Nazi hunt, Alan heads to the home of Helmut Drucker, an ex-Nazi living in Haltemprice whom Alan has been blackmailing for years, and who he now plans to turn in for the reward.

Lacking the teeth necessary to slice its prey into manageable pieces, it flails its prey from side to side to tear and rip it into smaller pieces.

Lacking the support of infantry or heavy artillery, the mounted force was too small to capture this strong rearguard position, but the threat from the mounted advance was enough to force the enemy to evacuate the position.

Lacking in the study of human-animal communication is a focus on expressive communication from animal to human specifically.

Lacking specialist ships, it had to improvise a fleet train from whatever RN, RFA or merchant ships were available.

Lacking enough landing craft for a major amphibious assault, the Regia Marina secured design plans from the German Kriegsmarine to build copies of the Marinefährprahm Type A ( MFP ) in Italian shipyards.

Lacking support from the Salian dynasty of the Holy Roman Empire, secular Saxon princes seeking Slavic territory found themselves in a military stalemate with their adversaries.

Lacking videotaped studio material, this also meant that it was the only story, to date ( excluding the TV movie ), to be shot entirely on film ( other stories in the original series intercut material from either source as required or, especially in the last four years when film was eschewed even on location, were entirely on tape ).

Lacking the passive stabilisation offered by ligaments in other joints, the glenohumeral joint is actively stabilised by the rotator cuff, a group of short muscles stretching from the scapula to the humerus.

Lacking sufficient financial support to pay for radio advertising, O ' Brien commissioned campaign songs from local folk artists promoting his themes, recorded them, then played them out of a loudspeaker on a truck driven through town.

Lacking a sense of purpose in his personal life since the collapse of his marriage, he came to believe that, when Jesus revealed Himself, He quite literally rescued him from an early grave.

Lacking the power to repair the timelines, they concocted this scheme of recruiting heroes from various worlds to do their work for them.