• With this meeting only a month away, the lack of time for systematic preparations is distressing.

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  • He said that, given the lack of time for scrutiny before an election, it was "wishful thinking" to expect the Bill to be embraced by peers.

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  • His biggest gripe with the former: the lack of time he gets to tell his story care of an influx of revenue-generating commercials and commercial breaks.

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  • My wife and I have just sat and watched your latest programme with increasing annoyance at the lack of time given to the French and Jordanian participants.

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  • Teachers and some school boards, too, have taken issue with the time spent on testing and the lack of time they've had to incorporate the new standards into lessons.

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  • Pulis, though, was left fuming at the end of the game, unhappy with the lack of injury time as his players pushed for a late equaliser.

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  • He also criticised the lack of the time being given to discuss the changes.

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  • By all accounts, the lack of a time limit on defenders standing in the paint is one of several factors that favor the defense in college play.

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  • The researchers, who spent nine months monitoring a work-from-home program at a 16, 000-employee Chinese travel agency, concluded that the lack of face time with bosses caused careers to stall.

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  • They will be especially disappointed, probably, by the lack of detail on how, exactly, the ECB plans to go about any bond purchases - and the lack of a time frame.

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  • As for the lack of teaching time, how about cutting out some of the nonessential curriculum, such as bike safety, that currently takes up much of the school day, and refocusing on the basics, such as reading, writing and arithmetic?

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  • "But even if we upgraded those systems, the lack of a really effective vaccine, the lack of better and faster drugs that shorten treatment to a reasonable time and the lack of good drugs for treating resistant disease -- make it hard for any health care system to effectively deal with the disease, " he said.

    CNN: The story

  • We had no qualms with most of these tools -- the only silly bit was the lack of customizable alarm time options for calendar events.

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  • Because of the current lack of real-time monitoring and controls, system operators often insist that utilities run just 50% of the maximum load through their wires.

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  • Members expressed concern about the redefinition of the working day, excessive management control, lack of recognition for part-time doctors and the differential treatment for consultants in their first seven years of practice.

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  • But many of the problems identified at the time - such as lack of a regional political voice in Westminster and economic "marginalisation" - still remained, he added.

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  • Van Raaij also says there is widespread support around Europe's smaller countries for the idea, despite the extra travelling time and the lack of a common history between the participants.

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  • The trouble with this approach to the relatively slow interconnection of the processors, latency and lack of real-time security is that there are synchronization and communication challenges, software programming complexities and other issues that are exacerbated in a cloud computing environment.

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  • British skeleton's performance director, Andi Schmid, said before the Games that a lack of track time for athletes in the run-up to the Games had increased the risk of accidents.

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  • He referred me to their schedule being agreed on 26 March and the "lack of opportunity to defer the starting time or postpone the Donegal-Derry game".

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  • While an increased risk of brain tumors is not established, the increasing use of mobile phones and the lack of data for mobile phone use over time periods longer than 15 years warrant further research of mobile phone use and brain cancer risk.

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  • Of the 15 percent or so that are considered to be sort of manmade, if you will, most of the time, it was lack of maintenance, lack of proper maintenance that caused a collapse like this.

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  • Not only do most of the new American immigrants (mostly illegal) not care, most of the long-time citizens lack the critical thinking skills and drive to do anything about it.

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  • The commissioner said the organisation was "concerned that lack of resources and time limits could have the effect of undermining confidence in the inquiry" and it wanted to ensure this was not the case.

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  • Gwilym Tudur was one of the protesters who sat in the middle of the road on Trefechan bridge on 2 February, 1963, to raise awareness about the lack of official status for the Welsh language at the time.

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  • Thus, Bulger will ultimately encounter much the same disability as Black: an inability to put up a fair fight in a case of unnecessary complexity defended against by a legal team inadequately equipped for the task because of a lack of sufficient time and resources.

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  • In the past, and during the time of sanctions, the lack of a proper port, customs and other facilities meant that smuggling was widespread.

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  • He was considered a long shot to even stick in the league, and big time player agents, noting the lack of star quality needed to appeal to national advertisers, weren't clamoring after him.

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  • Unless they play the same course all the time, or take caddies, golfers are always disadvantaged by a lack of knowledge and distance, especially when playing a course for the first time.

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  • They then opted against a rushed practice at the Westpac Stadium before the scheduled start at 1400 local time on Saturday - but the lack of preparation could hardly be an excuse.

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