Sentences with phrase «acts are in vain»

Feigned penitent acts are in vain if they do not manifest themselves in seriously attempted behavioral changes.

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To look upon those prayer wheels not (as some of us were taught) as instruments of «vain repetition,» but as outward and visible signs of the intention to pray without ceasing, can perhaps lead iconoclasts to more compassionate reflection on the sacramental impulse and on the place of objects — statues and stained glass and candles and altar cloths, beads, bouquets, and kneeling cushions in needlepoint stitched by some faithful woman as her own act of participation in the prayers of the church.

Those who are looking for the insidious presence of Karl Marx as normative for the «second act» will look in vain; he is not cited even once.

All economic and sociological explanations dash themselves in vain against the appearance of this kind of gratuitous act for which there are neither roots nor rational explanations.

On the contrary there is a sense of reverence, a holy fear, a humility, that that which is to be done in the pure sincerity of this act of repentance may not become vain and overhasty.

This act is prayer, by which term I understand no vain exercise of words, no mere repetition of certain sacred formulæ, but the very movement itself of the soul, putting itself in a personal relation of contact with the mysterious power of which it feels the presence — it may be even before it has a name by which to call it.

The afternoon event was supposed to focus on efforts in the Senate to help unemployed veterans, but it was hijacked by angry anti-SAFE Act protestors, who shouted down the senators when they tried — largely in vain — to stick to the scheduled program.

The suspended General Secretary who was present at the time tried in vain to prevent the act.

Anyway, Paddington 2 has started shooting and a few final cast members have been announced, including Hugh Grant as «a vain, charming acting legend whose star has fallen somewhat in recent years» and Brendan Gleeson as «a notorious safe - cracker and strongman who becomes Paddington's unexpected ally.»

The film is adapted from Fabien Nury and Thierry Robin's graphic novel, in which Stalin's sudden death in 1953 serves as a catalyst for action, with neurotic acting general secretary Nikita «Nicky» Khrushchev (Steve Buscemi) and comrades Georgy Malenkov (Jeffrey Tambor, deliciously vain and making fine use of a girdle) and foreign affairs minister Vyacheslav Molotov (Michael Palin) each trying to manoeuvre his way into a position of more power.

However, one looks in vain at ERA 1996, s 129 (or in the corresponding provision considered in Taplin, s 78 of the Employment Protection Act 1975) for any reference to exceptionality as a material consideration when construing the statutory word «likely».

The legislature does not legislate in vain, and if physical possession is also necessary for liability, the definition of «occupier» under the Act would not include s. 1 (b).