These were frequently arrangements of orchestral works, and in the days before recordings served to spread knowledge of new orchestral music to places lacking an orchestra.

The following definition from the United States Environmental Protection Agency, although perhaps lacking ecological sophistication, is more typical: introduced species are .." pecies that have become able to survive and reproduce outside the habitats where they evolved or spread naturally ".

On one hand, people apply their skills and time on projects for the common good, perhaps where funding or commercial interest is lacking, for developing countries or to help spread ecological or cheaper technologies.

The spread of new pathogens, viruses, and diseases rarely have any positive effects ; new pathogens and viruses sometimes destroy populations lacking immunities to those diseases.

a. marked by relatively minor conflict between European colonists and Indigenous Australians, and generally lacking in events that might be termed ' invasion ', ' warfare ', ' guerrilla warfare ', ' conquest ' or ' genocide ', and generally marked instead by humane intent by government authorities, with damage to indigenous people largely attributable to unintended factors ( such as the spread of new diseases ) rather than to malicious policies ;

Caesar, lacking a fleet to immediately give chase, solidified his control over the western Mediterranean – Spain specifically – before assembling ships to follow Pompey.

To Axel Oxenstierna, he confessed: " If anything happens to me, my family will merit your pity, the mother lacking in common sense, the daughter a minor-hopeless, if they rule, and dangerous, if others come to rule over them.

The stanza describes Njörðr as a " prince of men ," that he is " lacking in malice ," and that he " rules over the " high-timbered temple.

" The equitable distribution of data access and data privacy is a prominent theme in the book ; characters who have access to information which is nominally secret enjoy demonstrable economic advantages over others lacking access to such data.

On his first game back, Williams hit a home run, and he batted. 356 in 320 at bats on the season, lacking enough at bats to win the batting title over Al Kaline, who batted. 340 in 1955, while hitting 28 home runs and driving in 83 runs, while being named the " Comeback Player of the Year ".

Musicologists, drama critics, art historians, and many other scholars also create their own subjective classifications ; however, lacking state-legitimated power over persons, their classifications do not lead to anyone ’ s being deprived of property, liberty, or life.

In 1992, it was estimated that over 30, 000 rickshaws were operating in the city, all but 6, 000 of them illegally, lacking a license ( no new licenses have been issued since 1945 ).

Despite lacking four wheel drive, a mainstay of the American military Jeeps, the vehicle proved very competent at maneuvering its way over rough terrain, even in a direct comparison with a contemporary standard German army 4 × 4, and the project was given the green light for further development.

HbO associates with the bacterial cell membrane, where it significantly increases oxygen uptake over membranes lacking this protein.

He agonizes over it yet fails to realise that it is his delivery that is lacking.

High-quality evidence for their superiority over existing preparations is currently lacking.

Two scores in the 80s against India, one against Sri Lanka and two 70s against Pakistan over the winter of 1981 / 82 kept in him contention for an international place, however centuries were lacking in his game.

# leaving each ethnic group discontent with the results: the Bosnian Serbs for the somehow limited results ( although strongly favored in statistical terms ), such as the arbitration over the Brcko district ; the Bosniaks for ignoring the human rights issues such as the Srebrenica massacre and recognizing Serbian entities such as the Republika Srpska ; the Bosnian Croats for the lack of equality, lacking a Croat Entity.

Also lacking stomata and a cuticle, lichens may absorb aerosols and gases over the entire thallus surface from which they may readily diffuse to the photobiont layer.

While their criticism that Humans took well over 6, 000 years to develop a central banking system after the beginning of their civilization may seem lacking in moral force, other arguments can be more convincing.

The lack of superiority over existing treatment, combined with lacking placebo-controlled trials, means that few modern drugs have earned FDA approval as initial monotherapy.

After many thousands of years of penance, Brahma names him maharishi, but also tells him that he hasn't become a jitendriya yet, lacking control over his passions.

After a failed court case against the New Zealand Broadcasting Corporation over a copyright case which cost him £ 250, 000 in 1989, Green lived out his life away from the media in solitude, confined to his Baker Street flat and lacking many of the financial riches of his former fame.

The conflict stemmed from disagreement over the handling of the war with Scotland ; Lancaster, and many others, found the king's war effort lacking.

Sometimes, his actions are caricatured as childlike and lacking in understanding of the consequences ( for example, taping over intelligence videos with episodes of Sesame Street ).

" It has also been criticised, most notably for lacking " spiritual lineage " and over claims of sexual exploitation and misogyny during the 1970s and 1980s.

Though lacking such features as valves and zippers, these suits still have certain advantages over their modern counterparts.

He even assumed royal prerogatives, such as taking over lands lacking rightful owners.

Though severely divided by rivaling styles and organizations ( several of which use their own minor variations of the basic rules ), and lacking a unifying sport organization, the sport of knockdown karate is today common all over the world.

Yeager is portrayed as a proficient warrior who is nevertheless overly eager and impetuous, lacking in brainpower, and all too willing to use Nodwick as monster-bait ; in one notable episode, his companions realized that Yeagar had been replaced with a doppleganger when he opted to throw a rock at a switch across a lava bed instead of throwing Nodwick at it.

An hour later she was turned out of 18 Thrawl Street as she was lacking fourpence for a bed, implying by her last recorded words that she would soon earn the money on the street with the help of a new bonnet she had acquired.

Each cell has a desk, a stool, and a bed, which are almost entirely made out of poured concrete, as well as a toilet that shuts off if blocked, a shower that runs on a timer to prevent flooding, and a sink lacking a potentially dangerous trap.

Even in domains where detailed and predictive understanding is still lacking, but where some explanations are possible, as with lightning and weather and earthquakes, the appropriate kind of human action has been more adequately indicated.

Leadership is lacking in our society because it has no legitimate place to develop.

yet here was a depth of sensibility which is lacking in a considerable portion of the beneficiaries of our civilization.

that their remote past is as discontinuous with their present selves, as lacking in any conscious likeness to their mature personality, as the self of a butterfly may be imagined discontinuous with that of the caterpillar it once was.

As the mother of an autistic child who is lacking in interest and enthusiasm about almost anything, I have to manipulate my son's fingers for him when he first plays with a new toy.

In my own case, I submit that such reasonable and fair exercise is woefully lacking.

The assisting musicians from the Vienna Octet are somewhat lacking in expertise, but their contribution is rustic and appealing.

Definite information on the growth of senile individuals is lacking.

A reason for such wide variation in the pulmonary morphology is entirely lacking at present.

Price competition is lacking.

Joking and talking may be freer and easier, but the important factual information is still lacking for far too many newly-married men and women.

The City Purchasing Department, the jury said, `` is lacking in experienced clerical personnel as a result of city personnel policies ''.

Certainly in the matter of principals there is nothing lacking.

The `` belaboring '' is of course jocular, yet James was not lacking in fundamental seriousness -- unless we measure him by that ultimate seriousness of the great religious leader or thinker who stakes all on his vision of God.

What was lacking was a real sense of phrase, the kind of legato singing that would have added a dimension of smoothness to what is, after all, a very oily character.

People with empathic concern help others in distress even when exposure to the situation could be easily avoided, whereas those lacking in empathic concern avoid helping unless it is difficult or impossible to avoid exposure to another's suffering.

Amateur dramatics is the performance of plays or musical theater, often to high standards, but lacking the budgets of professional West End or Broadway performances.

Misvan Gatu is the ' place of the mixed ones ' where the souls lead a gray existence, lacking both joy and sorrow.

At some point, he was alleged to have accompanied Swein on a pilgrimage to the Holy Land, but proof is lacking.

"... Baeyer is an excellent experimentor, but he is only an empiricist, lacking sense and capability, and his interpretations of his experiments show particular deficiency in his familiarity with the principles of true science ..."

Stilicho is alleged by some to have wanted control of both Emperors, and is supposed to have had Rufinus assassinated by Gothic mercenaries in 395 ; though definite proof of Stilicho's involvement in the assassination is lacking, the intense competition and political jealousies engendered by the two figures compose the main thread of the first part of Arcadius ' reign.