Wanting in a sentence as an adjective

I don't know if it's as contrived as "not wanting to let the team down." But these guys were my friends and I wanted to be there.

Then, I found myself wanting a KitKat. Perhaps there's something to this presentation style after all!

This is Verizon wanting to bill their customers once and then their customers' vendors as well. Double billing for a single service is a neat trick if you can pull it off.

Because once the train leaves San Antonio you'll be wanting to begin maneuvering yourself and your suitcase near an exit. Those doors don't stay open very long!

Whatever the rights and wrongs of them wanting to delete the article, or whether it had super-secret information, there is only really one response to what they did; What. The. ****.

Instead, consider that maybe all Dropbox is trying to do here is establish a track record of "not wanting Dropbox to become Rapidshare". This story then is not a "PR nightmare" for them; it's the expected outcome of their actions.

My hypothesis is that we need to reform the representation of programs to address this use case: I download the sources for a tool I use, wanting to make a tweak. How can I orient myself and make a quick change in just one afternoon?

Either they assume the user scans for "Ok," when wanting to close something, or that they skim sentences from the inside-out. If you do close it and click it again, which usually means "reopen", you instead get scrolled down to the bottom of the page.

The cynicism must be pretty darn strong to try and explain that away by anything other than Zuck wanting to do some good with his shares and money. We should be applauding it, not over-analyzing it for how it benefits him.

And completely terminates all Microsoft service to anyone found wanting to obey by these fundamentalist directives? The warning should not be "watch what you store on SkyDrive", the warning should be "stay the **** away from Microsoft".

In particular, I think it's somewhat amusing that people are giving him grief for wanting to "jump to C as soon as possible." Any rational kernel developer wants to jump to C as soon as possible -- and wants as much of the system to be in C as possible.

Pre-bust, no matter what the abuses, the law firms held ultimate sway because even the largest companies with the most sophisticated in-house staffs would be wary of switching firms easily or of wanting to alienate their main outside firms in any way. That changed with the bust.

Therefore, it no longer needs to impose insane-looking licensing terms on persons wanting to post to its site and it has dropped those terms. It has simply found a more practical way to defeat the 3Tap model, rendering the oppressive licensing terms unnecessary.

It comes across as wanting to prove how smart you are instead of seeking to learn from someone who has done incredible work andlucky for usis bursting at the seams with enthusiasm to share it. Oh and congratulations jpap on what's looking like the most successful and technically solidest HN launch in quite some time!

- If these deletionists are just being OCD and wanting everything to be tidy and clean and under their editorial control, I would say that they need to take a break. In fact, it's possible that people with certain psychological traits self-select for Wikipedia editorship.

If you're delaying on this point out of some idea of wanting to "try to fix things first" or "not wanting to be the bad guy," you're just shooting yourself in the foot and downing blood thinners to keep the wound from clotting. Working with an attorney is not the same as filing suit, and you will never be worse off in this sort of situation for having sought outside counsel.

And yet he is exactly the kind of man that much of the public actually wants to have as a police officer: idealistic and conscientious and authentically wanting to help people. When we allow police work to consist of repeated ****** exams of people who are not under arrest, then the good people will be driven out of the police force, and the police force will become a very attractive profession for those people whom are the most likely to abuse the power of being a police officer.

Wanting definitions

adjective

nonexistent; "the thumb is absent"; "her appetite was lacking"

See also: lacking absent missing

adjective

inadequate in amount or degree; "a deficient education"; "deficient in common sense"; "lacking in stamina"; "tested and found wanting"

See also: deficient