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

Lacking the support of the formerly independent vassals and weakened by the increasing hostility of the Church, the monarchy lost its pre-eminence.

Lacking the artillery support of the troops entrenched on the West bank of the bayou, Confederate troops in these positions retired quickly.

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

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

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 official support, the army was faced with anarchy.

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 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 support for viewing an NNTP server's grouplist or headers, they cannot browse groups or read / post text messages.

Lacking a Senate majority, and with Labor opposed to the introduction of the GST, the government turned to the minor parties such as the Australian Democrats for support.

Lacking any significant outside support, the convention capitulated.

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 support for Estonians participating in the revolution, Tõnisson got into conflicts with more radical Estonian politicians.

Lacking armoured support, which had failed to arrive, they fought through the morning and into the afternoon, but when their position was assaulted by two German tanks they were forced to withdraw.

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 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 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 any significant political backing, Caraway accepted the offer of help from Long, whose efforts to limit incomes and increase aid to the poor she had supported.

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 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 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 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.

Lacking coherent organisation, small bands would advance, either following the original orders to reach the third ridge or new orders to reinforce the " firing line ", wherever that was.

Lacking a good precedent of successful one-man rule, Augustus created a junta of the greatest military magnates and stood as the front man.

Lacking military discipline, in what likely seemed to the participants a strange land ( Eastern Europe ), Peter's fledgling army quickly found itself in trouble despite the fact they were still in Christian territory.

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 adequate facilities, the University functioned by using military barracks and Quonset huts to house students and to provide library and classroom space.

Lacking the fuel to do so, the plane instead lands at the military base at Ovda Airport in Israel, where Jabari is arrested.

Lacking military experience, he showed little initiative or self-confidence, instead cautiously obeying the instructions of the king, and relying on the opinion of his advisers and subordinate commanders.

Lacking any previous military service Degrelle was compelled to join as a low ranking private, only later becoming an officer.

Lacking any military talent, he failed to win a single battle and, on hearing about the invasion of Edigu, fled to Lithuania, pillaging Serpukhov on his way.

Lacking military training, they armed themselves with small arms captured from the Germans.

Lacking standing armies, kings relied on noble retinues for the military forces they required to conduct wars or crush internal rebellions.

Lacking in ammunition, food and water, and unable to resist the attacking waves, which continued despite the rebels ' heavy losses, the military force had to retreat, once again conceding the field to the rebels.

Lacking a local militia or garrison of soldiers, there were no military stores ; uniforms had to be fashioned from scratch.

Lacking democratic control over the military on both nations.