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Lacking the capital with which to manufacture his lubricators in large numbers, he usually assigned his patent rights to his employers or sold them to investors.
Lacking a means for dealing with large numbers of captured troops early in the American Civil War, the U. S. and Confederate governments relied on the traditional European system of parole and exchange of prisoners.

Lacking and could
Lacking a strong general to control the by-now mostly barbarian Roman Army, Honorius could do little to attack Alaric's forces directly, and apparently adopted the only strategy he could in the situation: wait passively for the Visigoths to grow weary and spend the time marshalling what forces he could.
Lacking the residency requirements in Illinois at the time, he could not vote.
Lacking substantial evidence for the mode of failure, the following possibilies could not be excluded:
Lacking official press credentials to witness the Normandy landings, she impersonated a stretcher bearer and later recalled, " I followed the war wherever I could reach it.
Lacking anti-tank weapons, the Norwegian troops could not hold back the German attack.
Lacking such a correlation, the identification of the cause of the thirty-one events as gamma rays of cosmic origin could not be established.
Lacking general unity and forming a minority in the Verkhovna Rada, opposition politicians could provide protesters with only limited support, such as initiating a mock impeachment of Kuchma and making parliamentary protest.
Lacking scaling ladders, Procter finally realized that the attackers could do very little against the fort.

Lacking and ;
Lacking telescopes to work with, he increased his accuracy by increasing the length of his sextant ; the so-called Fakhri sextant had a radius of about 36 meters ( 118 ft ) and the optical separability of 180 " ( seconds of arc ).
He wrote several chess books including Chess Springbok, My Book of Fun and Games, Grosse Remispartien ( in German ; an English edition entitled Draw !, edited by John Nunn, was published in 1982 ), and Lacking the Master Touch ( 1970 ).
Lacking confidence, she initially disliked stage school ; her father encouraged her to endure and she grew to enjoy her time there.
Lacking the lavish production values and visual spectacle of its Hollywood equivalents, Elstree Calling is now something of a curio item interesting chiefly for two reasons: Alfred Hitchcock ( then contracted to BIP ) was one of several directors employed on the production ; and the film is quite possibly the first ever to refer directly to television ( the linking narrative concerns a television broadcast of the revue, some six years before the BBC began regular television transmissions ).
Lacking a vocalist, they were strictly an instrumental band until the addition of singer Al Jackson in 1963 ; they began playing rock and roll songs and secured a residency at Solihull Civic Hall.
Lacking a centralized intelligence authority, he was unaware of the previous success ; when Washington's ships arrived in Bermuda in October 1775, the gunpowder had been gone for two months and British ships patrolled Bermuda waters.
Lacking in originality, but rich in brain-dead dialogue ; when Jami Gertz snarls, ' Get out, you creature of filth!
Lacking a local militia or garrison of soldiers, there were no military stores ; uniforms had to be fashioned from scratch.

Lacking and nevertheless
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 all interest in academic knowledge, he was nevertheless a patron of culture, especially in art and architecture.
Lacking resources, Yoshiteru nevertheless saw opportunities to assign his kanji " 輝 " on various samurai like Mōri Terumoto to become something close to a godfather.
Lacking evidence, Barton nevertheless speculated that Native Americans originated in Asia.

Lacking and French
Lacking room to maneuver by the surrounding woods, the French gendarmes were surrounded and systematically killed.

Lacking and progress
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 and was
Lacking any support beyond his immediate household, he was forced to flee for his life.
Lacking, however, was any immediate indication that the Carías administration was destined to survive any longer than most of its predecessors.
Lacking means since his inheritance was confiscated, he acquired a modest house in a lower-class neighborhood of Rome.
Lacking purpose-built landing craft and both doctrinal and practical experience with amphibious warfare, the Navy was largely improvising from scratch.
Lacking immunity to the newcomers ' diseases, the population was decimated by the mid-nineteenth century.
Lacking freshness in the scripts, it was canceled in the middle of the 1965 – 66 television season.
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 a memorial service or grave site, The Quilt was often the only opportunity survivors had to remember and celebrate their loved ones ' lives.
Lacking the slick production style of the previous vocal album, True Believer, Phil Keaggy was a strong return to form for Keaggy in terms of recapturing his usual organic, live sound.
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 the moral influence of Ben or the need to stay secret for his aunt, Peter broke out of the orphanage he was sent to and began to defeat criminals for the reward money, matters coming to a head when he nearly killed the Green Goblin in a fight.
Lacking a hit 45 and released too late in the year, it sold out its original run but was never reprinted, suggesting somewhat disappointing sales.
Lacking the resources to continue the struggle, James then became reconciled to his brother Peter, and in 1311 the former was succeeded by his son Sanç I, or Sancho I, who founded the cathedral of Perpignan shortly before his death in 1324.
Lacking in support from either the military or the political parties, Abe was replaced by Mitsumasa Yonai in January 1940.
Lacking success, he was on the point of enlisting when he suddenly sprang into fame as the author of a play called El trovador ( The Troubadour ), which was played for the first time on 1 March 1836.
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 an heir, Philip married Mariana of Austria in 1649, and Margarita ( 1651 – 1673 ) was their first child, and their only one at the time of the painting.
Lacking sufficient supplies to mount an attack Luxembourg was unable to prevent the Allies garrisoning Dixmude and, on 27 September 1694, recapturing Huy, an essential preliminary to future operations against Namur.
Lacking clean air to deploy his reserve parachute, he was eventually forced to risk deploying it with the others still attached, and the reserve also entangled.

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