America could not have everybody if the nation lacked information about women's sociolegal status.

Without a middle class, the nation lacks the public pressure to hold its leaders accountable and to demand basic rights.

And tell us what the nations lack!

Many African nations lack any legislative protections for subjects of medical research.

Supply could not rise to match demand after all, the new view declared, because the nation lacked the necessary productive capacity.

Every former Communist nation lacks domestic capital to modernize and privatize its industry.

At that time, the nation still lacked stability and was in need of a strong ruler.

Compared with other large industrialized (and some developing) nations, Britain is notably lacking in natural resources.

The nation lacked a cohesive government to conduct language and cultural policies.

The potential market of 22 million is small by Asian standards, and the nation lacks a convertible currency.