The reason is that there is a lack of interest on the part of the community.

The main reason for the lack of support for these efforts was that the vast majority of Creoles, especially the plantation owners, rejected any kind of separatism, considering Spain's power essential to the maintenance of slavery.

A lack of a healthy micro-organism community is the main reason why composting processes are slow in landfills with environmental factors such as lack of oxygen, nutrients or water being the cause of the depleted biological community.

The convention also offers decision-makers guidance based on the precautionary principle that where there is a threat of significant reduction or loss of biological diversity, lack of full scientific certainty should not be used as a reason for postponing measures to avoid or minimize such a threat.

Part V of this act established an amending formula for the Canadian constitution, the lack of which ( due to more than 50 years of disagreement between the federal and provincial governments ) was the only reason Canada's constitutional amendments still required approval by the British parliament after ratification of the Statute of Westminster in 1931.

Thus, he assures, there is no reason to mourn the death of fellow Christians, and to do so is to show a shameful lack of faith.

The word faith generally refers to a belief that is held with lack of, in spite of or against reason and evidence.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau would argue, however, that his concept of " general will " in the " social contract " is not the simple collection of individual wills and precisely furthers the interests of the individual ( the constraint of law itself would be beneficial for the individual, as the lack of respect for the law necessarily entails, in Rousseau's eyes, a form of ignorance and submission to one's passions instead of the preferred autonomy of reason ).

Opponents of food irradiation and consumer activists argue that the final proof is missing that irradiated food is " safe " ( i. e. not unwholesome ) and that the lack of long-term studies should be a further reason not to permit food irradiation.

Eternal law refers to divine reason, known only to God, God's plan for the universe ; man needs this, without which he would totally lack direction.

This lack of convincing early evidence is the reason many recent historians exclude Arthur from their accounts of sub-Roman Britain.

He supposed that the main reason for the hate and prejudice lay in the mutual misunderstanding caused by the lack of one common language.

A general change in desire for sex by either partner in a relationship for any reason if sustained and unresolved may result in a lack or loss of sexual desire for the other partner, which may cause problems in the relationship.

Many university laboratories in the United States have closed, citing a lack of acceptance by mainstream science as the reason ; the bulk of parapsychology research in the US is now confined to private institutions funded by private sources.

Koneru Ramakrishna Rao, a past President of the Parapsychological Association, has written that the lack of any agreed-upon theory of parapsychology is one reason for the general skepticism of the scientific community regarding the existence of paranormal phenomena.

Skeptics such as Antony Flew have cited the lack of such a theory as their reason for rejecting the evidence for psi.

Maureen does not state a reason for this ; she simply remarks that such questions are " beautiful " but lack answers.

Other sources consider that Descartes denied that animal had reason or intelligence, but did not lack sensations or perceptions, but these could be explained mechanistically.

Everett did not draw the conclusion that it was the lack of numbers in their language that prevented them from grasping mathematics, but instead concluded that the Pirahã had a cultural ideology that made them extremely reluctant to adopt new cultural traits, and that this cultural ideology was also the reason that certain linguistic features that were otherwise believed to be universal did not exist in their language.

Turing completeness in SQL is implemented through advanced standard features, illustrating one reason relatively powerful non-Turing-complete languages are rare: the more powerful the language is initially, the more complex are the tasks to which it is applied and the sooner its lack of completeness becomes perceived as a drawback, encouraging its extension until it is Turing complete.

Kagan suggests that such a procedure might be justified on the grounds that, “ a general requirement to promote the good would lack the motivational underpinning necessary for genuine moral requirements ” and, secondly, that personal independence is necessary for the existence of commitments and close personal relations and that “ the value of such commitments yields a positive reason for preserving within moral theory at least some moral independence for the personal point of view .”

The attitudes that Europeans extended toward the Other were paralleled by Victor, as he too was considered " uncivilized " because of his lack of language and therefore, reason.

The sixth was slated for November 2008, but Warner moved it to July 2009 only three months before the movie was supposed to come out, citing the lack of summer blockbusters in 2009 ( due to the Writer's Strike ) as the reason.

war is the result of mistrust and lack of understanding between people.

Are we not late, especially those of us who call ourselves Friends, in doing enough about this lack of understanding??

This large discrepancy demonstrates the inadequacies of the experimental methods and the lack of understanding of the various phenomena involved.

Gunny symbolized so much that was unpleasant -- Tolley, the indifference with which the Fairbrothers and indeed the whole neighborhood now treated her and which she would die rather than acknowledge to her husband, his lack of understanding and sympathy in her present condition, her disgusting swollen stomach.

DOE's typically require understanding of both random error and lack of fit error.

this introduces the possibility of another kind of skepticism: since our understanding of causality is that the same effect can be produced by multiple causes, there is a lack of determinacy about what one is really perceiving.

The lack of awareness of the system, the lack of understanding of the hardware, and fears about the digital signature lockout initially caused concerns.

In the epilogue, God condemns Job's friends for their ignorance and lack of understanding while commending Job for his righteous words, commands them to prepare burnt offerings and reassures them that Job will pray for their forgiveness.

However, there is sometimes a lack of understanding by researchers in developed countries about the actual needs of prospective beneficiaries in developing countries.

There also can be a lack of determining " knowledge-appropriate " communication, as when someone uses ambiguous legal words, or medical jargon, when speaking with another person that lacks understanding in these areas.

" 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.

Hand bill from the Metropolitan Board of Health | New York City Board of Health, 1832-the outdated public health advice demonstrates the lack of understanding of the disease and its actual causative factors.

The lack of a causative or explanatory basis, however, is not specific to the DSM, but rather reflects a general lack of pathophysiological understanding of psychiatric disorders.

It was sometimes so convincing that there are many anecdotes about people becoming very emotionally caught up in dealing with DOCTOR for several minutes until the machine's true lack of understanding became apparent.

Islamism, or elements of Islamism, have been criticised for: repression of free expression and individual rights, rigidity, hypocrisy, lack of true understanding of Islam, misinterpreting the Quran and Sunnah, and for innovations to Islam ( bid ‘ ah ), notwithstanding Islamists ' proclaimed opposition to any such innovation.

Graves argues that not only is r / K selection theory considered to be virtually useless when applied to human life history evolution, but Rushton does not apply the theory correctly, and displays a lack of understanding of evolutionary theory in general.

In short, the key to understanding Kipsigis spatial concepts beyond the personal space of homesteads is the realization that they are defined in terms of nodes or focal points and lack true boundaries.

Whether in political parties, places of residence, schools, media outlets, even workplaces, there is a lack of regular interaction across sectarian lines to facilitate the exchange of views and promote understanding.

Göring also displayed a lack of understanding of doctrine and technical issues in aerial warfare which he left to the more competent.

This lack of understanding between the Flak and flying branches of the defence would plague the Luftwaffe throughout the war.

* These systems can be hard to maintain, improve, and expand because there is a general lack of understanding of the system ; the staff who were experts on it have retired or forgotten what they knew about it, and staff who entered the field after it became " legacy " never learned about it in the first place.

The lack of a consistent, rigorous, and precise understanding of what typically makes up one unit of cultural transmission remains a problem in debates about memetics.

Unfortunately the paper bears the stamp of the reporter failing to understand Rømer's presentation, and as the reporter resorted to cryptic phrasings to hide his lack of understanding, he obfuscated Rømer's reasoning in the process.