The colony lacked the funds to purchase all the island's proprietary estates.

Much of the population consisted of young, single, white indentured servants, and as such the colonies, to a large degree, lacked any social cohesiveness.

Canasatego was concerned that the British colonies lacked a coordinated policy to deal with the military threat coming from New France.

When the war began, the 13 colonies lacked a professional army or navy.

A leper colony located on the outskirts of New Delhi lacked access to clean water.

The pirate colony lacked a sense of order.

Many colonies lacked a large pool of laborers.

Originally settled by small farmers, sometimes having a few slaves, who were oriented toward subsistence agriculture, the colony lacked cities or towns.

The colonies lacked the resources to win the war without aid, but gained a powerful ally in France.

Gawler found that the colony lacked public finances, and poor officials and 4000 immigrants were living in mean houses.