The Bush administration has not only refused to face the problem squarely, but it is also enabling a pervasive lack of accountability.

Despite all this, a pervasive lack of confidence has settled over the two institutions.

Elsewhere, however, one had trouble figuring out whether the evening's pervasive lack of subtlety was intrinsic to the musicians present or somehow imposed on them from above.

All stories deal with the hardship of life, the suffering of the lower classes and a pervasive lack of hope.

Later, teaching at P.S. 32, he recognized the same pervasive lack of swimming skills.

Except, of course, for the pervasive and somewhat depressing lack of maintenance and repair.

The most commonly expressed view I have encountered is that these homeless suffer from a pervasive lack of hope.

The pervasive lack of wood and metals in these islands wasn't inconveniencing Ilkehan to any noticeable degree.

More important to them is what researchers have described as a pervasive lack of "science literacy" among adults, especially teachers.

The results will cap weeks of campaigning in which the ethnographic significance of the contests was coupled with a pervasive lack of public interest.