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

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

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 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 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 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.

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 ship-borne radar and neglectful in providing night-fighting training and equipment to its naval forces, the Regia Marina had fared badly during a night action with British forces off Cape Matapan in March 1941.

Lacking the desire to make a career in merchant banking, Meinertzhagen took the examinations for a commission in the British Army, and after training at Aldershot was commissioned in 1899.

Lacking the philosophic training common among the Spanish Jews – although he was acquainted with Ibn Ezra, Saadia, some of the Karaites, and perhaps Maimonides – Judah did not reduce his mystic-theosophical theories to a system, and they are therefore difficult to survey.

Lacking musical training, he creates the soundtracks to his games using commercially available, pre-made samples.

Lacking the respected and effective institutions that consensus helps provide, minority parties, such as the P.D.I. in 1957 and the progressive Istiqlal faction in 1958, clamor for elections when out of power, but are not at all certain they wish to be controlled by popular choice when in power.

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

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 outside confirming texts, they hold that we cannot confirm the origin or date of most statements and laws, and that we can say little for certain about their authorship.

Lacking a digestive system, they consume their food by surrounding and absorbing it.

Lacking a male provider ( their grandfather died that year ), they relied greatly on each other and became exceptionally close.

Lacking an indoor meeting place, they even spend their evenings together in the third class waiting room of Waterloo station.

Lacking a home to return to, they instead went together west to Aman.

Lacking customers and faced with dwindling funds, they are eventually hired by the Sedgewick Hotel to investigate a haunting.

Lacking the financial resources and contract talent they once controlled, the studies now relied on independent producers supplying some portion of the budget in exchange for distribution rights.

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

Lacking a quorum, they selected new members in 1919.

Lacking access to a professional darkroom, their films and prints had to be developed in a makeshift darkroom set up each time ( and then dismantled again ) in the small bathroom of whatever apartment they were occupying.

Lacking opposable thumbs and not being especially strong, they proceed upwards in a series of slow hops, gripping onto the bark of trees with their small, sharp claws.

Lacking vocal cords, they produce sounds using six air sacs near their blow hole.

Lacking resources of cultural significance such as greenstone and plentiful timber, they found outlets for their ritual needs in the carving of dendroglyphs ( incisions into tree trunks, called rakau momori ).

Lacking those qualifications, pupils are eligible to enter a university or university of applied sciences if they can present additional proof that they will be able to keep up with their fellow students through a Begabtenprüfung or Hochbegabtenstudium.

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 sufficient fuel to attempt a dock at the other end of the station and with battery power for only two days, they returned to Earth.

Lacking their own transport, they had to rely on that provided by other units and thus the withdrawal had to be undertaken in stages.

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

Lacking proper documentation however, they were stopped upon landing, and returned to Florida the same day and rented a red Kia Rio from Avis Rent-A-Car agency.

Lacking stomach and mouth, Osedax rely on symbiotic species of bacteria to digest whale fat and oils and release nutrients that they can absorb.