Sentences with phrase «all in vain»

As much as I enjoy writing and coaching, if no one feels inspired to action through my words, then it feels like my work is in vain — «What's the point?»

And they kept searching in vain for Dzhokhar, who had disappeared into the night.

And you have two options; the first is to hang onto the old model in the vain hopes it will resurrect.

It's always seemed a bit sad that trees died in vain to create books that sit in our Midtown offices, which is as close as I'll ever get to waxing environmental.

Concurrent with this orgy of public debt, the State encourages massive expansion of private credit via fractional lending, low bank reserves, and other forms of leverage, in a vain attempt to stimulate demand in an economy burdened with overcapacity, declining employment, marginal return on capital and saturated markets.

Suitably in the mood, I wondered, what if we could make sure all those poor noble oaks didn't die in vain to create books no one reads?

When Heidi Hayes and her husband were trying to have a child, they spent thousands of dollars, in vain, on fertility clinics.

In 1965, Malcolm X implored black voters to abstain from voting altogether if they felt their votes were being cast in vain.

In the early 19th Century, Luddites destroyed mechanized looms in a vain attempt to forestall the effect of the industrial revolution on employment patterns in the textile industry.

Insurers, once forbidden from supervising physician work, now act as managers, peering over the shoulders of doctors in a vain effort to counteract payment incentives that have created an oversupply of insured care.

In the quest to reinvent marketing, the nerds have tried in vain to become leaders.

Chris Urmson, Google's director of self - driving cars, made the case for full autonomy — in vain — to California regulators earlier this year.

They may do a great job, but if their efforts are not in alignment with the overall goals of the company, even the most perfect effort is in vain.

You could spend months searching for funding in vain.

Such edicts, meant to protect children with potentially fatal allergies, have forced parents to search the supermarket aisles — often in vain — for snacks guaranteed not to contain nuts or even nut residue.

But all of her efforts were in vain.

An Israeli entrepreneur, Shor discovered that the health care industry has long struggled in vain to find ways to get people to take the right meds at the right time — or to take them at all.

Together over the course of the past year, Uber and Lyft have spent up to $ 9 million in a vain effort to overturn the city's proposed safety measure, viewing Austin as an important test case in the broader struggle between local regulators and Silicon Valley upstarts with novel business models and global ambitions.

What he did: After searching in vain for a publisher for Boob Tube, a satirical novel about the soap opera industry that he penned with his wife, tech entrepreneur Mark Coker, 47, took matters into his own hands.

Whoever does not use his judgment to the utmost to keep the necessary reserve with them, will exert it in vain later on when he endeavors to extricate himself from the labyrinth, a misfortune which most often ends only at death.»

If we don't throw ourselves into it, then it feels almost like these people were murdered in vain.

A board member and spokesman for the Quebec civil lawyers» and notaries» union — Les avocats et notaires de l'État québécois, or LANEQ — he tried in vain in May to find members who were willing to share their first - hand experiences on the picket lines during their historic four - month general strike, the longest in Canadian public service history.

If that's not happening, or you keep catching yourself thinking about your growing inbox, then your efforts are likely in vain.

But when the SDM said that she had faced pressure, all her (friend's) efforts went in vain.

«In the recent years, several successful Silicon Valley entrepreneurs and blue chip companies have entered the healthcare vertical to disrupt and transform, in vain.

Writers are still valuable, and the pivot to video may have been a knee - jerk reaction — though not completely in vain.

«The one big thing that Bogle knows — and explains so well in this slender volume — is that buying and holding a broad benchmark of stocks while keeping fees to a minimum leads to higher long - term returns than constantly trading in a vain attempt to beat the market.

They all participated in the 3 month testing of our prototype platform (as well as 40 invited hackers who tried in vain to blow our platform up).

If you successfully carry out step one to five and you miss it here; all your effort will be in vain.

Readers of The IRA will recall that DB searched for years and in vain for a new shareholder prior to the arrival of HNA.

Without good inbound links to your web site, your search engine optimization (SEO) efforts will be in vain.

There is no point in writing complex content, as at the end of it if customers don't have a valuable takeaway, the content campaign is in vain.

The Oscar winner is among an elite circle of Hollywood and Silicon Valley backers behind Diamond Foundry (Disruptor No. 33), a Bay Area company that claims it uses technology to accomplish what alchemists and others have attempted in vain for centuries: growing diamonds and other precious sto...

«They want to cut programs and they hope in vain that the same plan that has been in place for the last 10 years will still work and will kick - start the economy,» the Liberal leader said in Trois - Rivieres, Que.

Indeed, many are now taking the name of God in vain and using it to support worldly desires like petty political causes.

1: Have no other gods — NOT A LAW = > In God we trust is on our legal currency 2: Make no graven image — NOT A LAW = > intellectual property is a God to many, we have tones of laws protecting against false copies 3: Don't take the name in vain — NOT A LAW = > false testimony is a crime as is swearing in some states 4: Honor the Sabbath — NOT A LAW = > employment law in many states prohibits forced labor on religious days 5: Honor thy father and mother — NOT A LAW = > minors have limited right to transact commerce under 19.

9 It is in vain that they keep worshiping me, because they teach commands of men as doctrines.»

3: Don't take the name in vain — NOT A LAW = > false testimony is a crime as is swearing in some states (False testimony is NOT the same.

Exodus 20:7 Thou shalt not take the name of the LORD thy God in vain; for the LORD will not hold him guiltless that taketh his name in vain.

Lets not forget that the people of Pakistan want to kill anyone who take the Mohammeds name in vain.

The prayers of the people of this world are all in vain, as they teach for doctrines the commandments of men (Matthew 15:9).

You are right, the false Jews put out this junk and always make sure to use Jesus name in vain in their movies.

Accepting at face value the assertion that Rick Perry has a Divine calling to run for the Republican nomination, we are lead to the question of whether it was a call to Mr. Perry to become the nominee or whether it was, instead, a call to Mr. Perry to teach a lesson about how people should not take the Name in vain in order to obtain political office.

Why is using bible verses to promote your business or placing the christian fish on your business card or sign not taking the Lord's name in vain?

For they speak against You wickedly; Your enemies take Your name in vain.

I think you mean the lord's name in VAIN.

Or lest I be poor, and steal, and take the name of my God in vain.

• «Saturday Night Live» let Jesus chastise Tim Tebow for using the Lord's name in vain and ended the bit by declaring that the Mormons have it right.

You're equating a band name, or the epithet it's based on (used instead of «Jesus Christ» by people who are trying not to take the name in vain) with SsSsSSsssatanism?

With more than a hint of exasperation, Scalia concludes: «One will search in vain the document we are supposed to be construing for text that provides the basis for the argument over these distinctions; and will find in our society's tradition regarding abortion no hint that the distinctions are constitutionally relevant, much less any indication how a constitutional argument about them ought to be resolved.