What is "lacked"

Usage examples of "lacked".

And though perspective was gained, was not something lost because the authors necessarily lacked a personal acquaintance with the life and the atmosphere of the times and with the historical figures about which they wrote?

Karl Lueger had been a brilliant orator, but the Pan-German Party had lacked effective public speakers.

What the party lacked, he saw, was an emblem, a flag, a symbol, which would express what the new organization stood for and appeal to the imagination of the masses, who, as Hitler reasoned, must have some striking banner to follow and to fight under.

Despite his feverish state of excitement he was in sufficient control of himself to realize that he lacked the strength to overcome the police and the Army.

Hitler lacked but needed, and Goering soon became active in introducing the Nazi leader to his friends and in counteracting in upper-class circles the bad odor which some of the Brownshirt ruffians exuded.

Left and the Right, Germany lacked a politically powerful middle class, which in other countries - in France, in England, in the United States - had proved to be the backbone of democracy.

German Republic was bereft of a middle-of-the-road political class, it also lacked that stability provided in many other countries by a truly conservative party.

And though he brought what the conservatives had lacked, a mass following, the Right was sure that he would remain in its pocket - was he not outnumbered eight to three in the Reich cabinet?

However, the Nazis and the Nationalists, the only two parties represented in the government, had only 247 seats out of 583 in Parliament and thus lacked a majority.

Goering, he said, was too self-indulgent and lacked both patience and diligence.

The question was whether, like his departed chief, he lacked the knack of taking decisive action at the proper moment.

From a purely military point of view we lacked the means for an attack which involved the piercing of the frontier fortifications.

An attack on Poland would unleash a world war and Germany lacked the raw materials and the food supplies to fight it.

They still lacked an officer to lead the enterprise and Jodl reminded Hitler that it was time to appoint a general and his staff for this purpose.

But the French, like the hard-pressed Dutch, lacked air support, armor, and antitank and antiaircraft guns, and were easily pushed back to Breda.