17 example sentences using lacking.
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He is lacking in resources from which to build his future. > I make sacrifices, I toil, I struggle, but I make it work.
If your ethics are a bit lacking, you may want to try betting on this effect which would create a demand for Dart dev houses in the future, and could make you some cash.
The reason why I bring that up is because I noticed the same pattern here; this job ad is screening for desperate people lacking a spine. I can't imagine any decent developer with a good job applying for this.
But really, most of the people saying they are 'looking for a technical co-founder' aren't just lacking the ability to code. They are lacking the ability to do a startup.
They also sometimes have more energy, having simpler lives and lacking things like kids and mortgages and personal accountants. I think it's easier for a young developer to focus laser-like on one thing for a long time.
Preferably something that someone else is already paying money for but that the incumbent product is shitty or lacking in some major way. Fix it or make it signficantly cheaper.
But if a truck is just slowing you down a little bit, I know you in particular may know that there's no cause to **** anyone off, but this knowledge seems to be lacking in some people on the road.
What's conspicuously lacking here is not positivity per se, it's the absence of civility & decency. Those are two very different sets of attributes.
On the other hand, statements like this strike me as narrow, lacking perspective. After hiking for months across Southeast Asia, I do hope you have more take away than: >These might seem like stupid things to worry about, but when you have trust in everything you own, you dont have to worry about anything.
As someone with professional experience in photography and a masters in design I think this piece is seriously lacking. First the photo that is used as "evidence" caught my eye quickly because it is clearly poorly processed/improperly exposed.
This is leaving behind the absurdity of trying to impose Western norms on an African continent lacking thousands of years of western history with literature, law, and democracy. You don't get to Tom Paine without Cato - and there was a 1700 year process connecting the two.
But what's lacking is the high level abstraction. Outside of programming languages, almost every knowledge discipline has a high level abstraction language--sometimes multiple languages.
Journal article are notoriously lacking in details and they have to be since no one want to read an article with pages upon pages of details. If his comment was "Hey, you guys who write papers on clinical trials, it would be awesome if you'd list the placebo composition, since I'd be more likely to believe your findings" I would say "fair point".
BCC has been cloned multiple times, including by one regular user of a forum I spent a lot of time on, who is actually not lacking in savvy. I do not make a practice of hiding the core tricks as to why BCC works, in fact, I have practically written the complete business plan for cloning it five times and begged people to start using the core tactics.
From an interpersonal standpoint, they are noted to be harsh, hostile, manipulative, lacking in empathy, cold-hearted, and abrasive to those they deem to be their inferiors. Their cognitive nature is considered rigid and prone to social intolerance, and they are fascinated by weapons, war, and infamous crimes or perpetrators of atrocities."
Or that self-regulation would be so lacking in a market that purposefully concocts information asymmetries that benefit money creators/the tech-savvy…. or that the Bitcoin system was only recreating and replicating all the bad incentives we know and love in our current system, which are now being curbed by intensified post-crisis regulation?
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