* Most monocots are unable to thicken their stems once they have formed, since they lack the cylindrical meristem present in other angiosperm groups.

Most biographers blame Lerner's professional decline on the lack of a strong director with whom Lerner could collaborate, as Neil Simon did with Mike Nichols or Stephen Sondheim with Harold Prince ( Moss Hart, who had directed My Fair Lady, died shortly after Camelot opened ).

Most of the continents were probably dry and rocky due to a lack of vegetation.

" Despite having the quote presented to a notable organisation, it has also appeared in books such as " The Most Stupid Words Ever Spoken " as it is deemed by some Westerners as a prime example of a lack of understanding of foreign culinary traditions in the Western world.

Most hydroxyapatite ceramics are very porous and lack mechanical strength, and are used to coat metal orthopedic devices to aid in forming a bond to bone or as bone fillers.

Most assembly languages and some low-level languages, such as BCPL ( Basic Combined Programming Language ), lack support for data structures.

Most serious was lack of unified popular support.

Most flora which begin to grow above water — primarily coconut palms — die out quickly due to the fierce tides and lack of resources necessary to sustain plant life.

" Most strips lack clear punch lines.

Most variants of reality television have proven to be a comparative failure in reruns, due to the competitive nature of the format and the lack of the element of surprise.

Most nutrients, with the exception of the lack of nitrogen in desert soils, are present in the soil but may not be available to plants due to extremes of pH.

Most North American accents lack the so-called trap – bath split found in Southern England: Words like ask, answer, grass, bath, staff, dance are pronounced with the short-a of trap, not with the broad A of father heard in Southern England as well as in most of the Southern hemisphere.

Most references to the islands from occasional visitors comment on the lack of law and order and the lack of religiosity of the inhabitants.

Most likely due to Rex Ingram's lack of faith in him, the studio refused to give him a raise beyond the $ 350 a week he had made for Four Horsemen.

Most air forces around the world lack dedicated surveillance planes.

Most, if not all, of these problems are caused by the Ghost Space or lack thereof.

Most three-year-olds are unaccustomed to the distance, and lack the experience, if not the stamina, to maintain a winning speed for so long.

Most Unix and Linux interprocess communication mechanisms lack this tight integration, although an implementation of QNX-type messaging for Linux does exist.

Most cheaper modulators ( i. e. not intended for professional use ) lack vestigal sideband filtering.

Most lack any form of a suspension and the ones that do feature a suspension have very primitive or rudimentary designs.

Most arachnids lack extensor muscles in the distal joints of their appendages.

* Most conscious beings lack a permanent physical form.

Most individual loudspeaker drivers are incapable of covering the entire audio spectrum from low frequencies to high frequencies with acceptable relative volume and lack of distortion so most hi-fi speaker systems use a combination of multiple loudspeakers drivers, each catering to a different frequency band.

Most violations occur due to the absence of a physical boundary and lack of navigational tools for small fishermen.

Most of the work done by men consisted of manual labor, while the women dealt more with textiles or agriculture.

Most manual rickshaws were eliminated in China after the founding of the People's Republic of China in 1949, a symbol of oppression of the working class.

Most third parties, as well as any non-Apple equipment would use standard 10BASE2 cabling, including T-connectors and manual termination.

Most people can master simpler celestial navigation procedures after a day or two of instruction and practice, even using manual calculation methods.

Most reproducing pianos are capable of manual over-ride operation, and many are constructed for dual functionality both as regular player pianos and also as reproducing pianos.

Most older farm tractors use a manual transmission.

Most database servers use logs to implement the rollback feature, which can result in rollbacks taking a long time or possibly even requiring manual intervention.

Most of the manual laborers on the Central Pacific were new arrivals from China.

Most copies are bought by learner drivers, who are expected to learn the manual for their driving test.

Most modern suits have an adjustable exhaust on the shoulder which can be set to release at varying pressures, closed completely, ( manual operation only ) or operated manually at any setting.

Most automatic transmissions offer the driver a certain amount of manual control over the transmission's shifts ( beyond the obvious selection of forward, reverse, or neutral ).

Most Allegros sold in New Zealand had the 1300cc A-series OHV engine and four-speed manual gearbox.

Most of the new governments that were formally continuously created, were really just adjustments, based on the Cencelli manual, carried out only after some event had changed the political scenario: typically, a large local election might indicate that some parties or some specific politicians had increased their power, requiring more government seats ; this would however reduce someone else's share, and a delicate balance had to be struck.

Most communities are self-supporting, and the monastic ’ s daily life is usually divided into three parts: ( a ) communal worship in the catholicon ( the monastery's main church ); ( b ) hard manual labour ; and ( c ) private prayer, spiritual study, and rest when necessary.

Most E-ZPass lanes are converted manual toll lanes and must have fairly low speed limits for safety reasons ( 5 and 15 mph are typical ), so that E-ZPass vehicles can merge safely with vehicles that stopped to pay a cash toll and, in some cases, to allow toll workers to safely cross the E-ZPass lanes to reach booths accepting cash payments.

Most Barbary galleys were at sea for around eighty to a hundred days a year, so the slaves were not on them constantly, but when they were not rowing the galleys they were forced to do hard manual labor on land.

Most modern implementations, however, tend to be standard or slightly modified manual transmissions ( and very occasionally modified automatics, even including a few cases of CVTs with " fake " fixed gear ratios ), with servo-controlled clutching and shifting under command of the central engine computer.

Most automobile manual transmissions allow the driver to select any forward gear ratio (" gear ") at any time, but some, such as those commonly mounted on motorcycles and some types of racing cars, only allow the driver to select the next-higher or next-lower gear.

Most manual transmissions rely on splash lubrication although some five speed Rover gearboxes did incorporate an oil pump.

Most drivers can learn how to drive a car with a manual transmission in as little as an hour, although it may take weeks before it becomes " second nature.

Most of these sporty compacts came standard with the same economical six-cylinder engines as their more mundane counterparts, but in some cases more powerful V8 engines were at least optional along with four-speed manual transmissions and center consoles housed between the front bucket seats.

Most of the automatic transmissions are heavily modified with transbrakes, manual valve bodies, and heavy duty gear sets.

Most of the levels in the game are restricted to two types of gameplay ; in some levels, referred to as Ride Levels in the game's instruction manual, Superman is instructed to fly through a series of hoops by Lex Luthor ; in between, he is also tasked to perform certain feats such as battling Luthor's minions the Dark Shadows and rescuing civilians from natural or artificial disasters, firstly stopping two cars from trapping civilians.

Most had a four-or five-speed manual transmission, but a three-speed automatic transmission was an option.