Sentences with phrase «attempt is in vain»

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«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.

The Althing's proposal spells this out in clear legal terms as an alternative to the neoliberal idea that economies must pay willy - nilly (as Keynes would say), sacrificing their future and driving their population to emigrate in what turns out to be a vain attempt to pay debts that, in the end, can't be paid but merely leave debtor economies hopelessly dependent on their creditors.

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...

He also examines how the human being who denies these moral truths steeps himself ever deeper in perverted forms of remorse, confession, atonement, reconciliation, and justification, all in the vain attempt to convince himself and others that evil is really good.

It is the religiosity from church growth books, membership duties, vain promises that our Savior rebelled against in His day as Son of God, Son of Man, Let scripture super exceed any of mans futile attempts to be purpose driven, or a «church Member»

The entire universe has been dropped into the torrential flow of His grace and redemption and no matter how much we might swim against the current or splash around in our own vain attempts at self - glorification, we can not resist the direction that Jesus is pulling all creation toward.

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

A few years later I was sitting in the home of one of the great elder statesmen of German New Testament scholarship, attempting to describe to him my efforts to relate Freud and Paul (however much I knew it would be in vain).

The visual image was something humanity idolatrously fashioned in the vain attempt to represent God.

To investigate the dimension of transcendence, conceived not as an attribute to God but as a dimension of man, is not to start from something which exists in our world in a vain attempt to prove the existence of what can exist only in another world; it is simply to investigate all the dimensions of human reality.22

It is unwanted and unheard in its native land so comes on here in a vain attempt to stroke its sorry ego.

The updating or «aggiornamento» of the Church did not mean jettisoning unpalatable parts of the Catholic faith in a vain attempt to be more with it; it meant a more effective proclamation of the same gospel that the apostles received from Christ and that has been handed down in and by the Church ever since — in Benedict XVI's words «the continuity of the one subject - Church».

Think about that, and about the negative responses that you have been getting in your vain attempts to sell your silly fable to us.

I was frightened that we were destroying our Earth in vain attempts to aggrandize ourselves and I wanted in some way to transmit to others my sense of the preciousness of nature.

This is a record of a child, odd and difficult from birth, in the grip of senseless obsessions, controlling the family with rigid rules and prohibitions, tearing through the house as fast and destructive as a tornado, grunting instead of talking, unresponsive to his parents» loving concern, their urging, coaxing, their vain attempts at discipline, their anger and spanking.

Anyone who believes in blaspheming others or making vain attempts to humiliate the Believers in God are as soulless and are mindless creatures of habitualized tendencies

This view paints God as a helpless victim of evil, and though He wishes the world were otherwise, His only options are to choose between various evils, and when confronted with the choice, He chooses the greatest evil in a vain attempt to show how terrible evil truly is.

Using select verses of the Scripture as slingshot ammunition in vain attempts to ridicule believers is juvenile.

Because Satan and his fallen angels with him received the eternal death sentence because they fully know the Holy Spirit's existence and yet rejected it in a vain attempt to be like the Most High.

I, on the other hand, am 816 % ready to have it gone and to move on to Fall comfort foods and cozy cool evenings, crispy leaves under my feet as the puppy drags me at a run across the yard in a vain attempt to catch the cats on her 2 inch tall legs.

if wenger sees he's losing them, at press conferences, he'll be saying SPIRIT SPIRIT SPIRIT in a vain attempt to manage them.

Meanwhile, Real Madrid have been plotting a move to lure arguably the best goalkeeper in the world to join their side, but it seems their attempts will be in vain in the next summer as De Gea has claimed often in the past that he is more than happy with life in Manchester.

Your baby's attempts to bring his hands to his mouth will be persistent, but mostly in vain at first.

Continuing, the statement said, «It is most unfortunate that instead of showing some remorsefulness for the harm done to the nation by his party, and giving genuine support for President Buhari's efforts to salvage and revamp the national economy, Mr. Metuh persists in a vain attempt to remain relevant on the national stage by unjustly denigrating the President who continues to strive with all his might to alleviate and reverse the harm done to the nation by PDP misrule and corruption.

It is most unfortunate that instead of showing some remorsefulness for the harm done to the nation by his party, and giving genuine support for President Buhari's efforts to salvage and revamp the national economy, Mr. Metuh persists in a vain attempt to remain relevant on the national stage by unjustly denigrating the President who continues to strive with all his might to alleviate and reverse the harm done to the nation by PDP misrule and corruption.

Recent evidence suggests that this impression, which I received on a recent visit in a vain attempt to view the Northern Lights, was a misleading one at least as far as some of the Icelandic elite are concerned.

The prehistoric community, which by that time had already been using the caves for the burial of the dead for perhaps 1,000 years, began to insert carved stone supports under the cave roof in a vain attempt to control the collapse.

But after a year in Silver's lab, Knight's attempts were revealed to be in vain when other researchers disproved one underlying premise of Silver's model of the experimental system Knight intended to use.

Sadly, all this money is thrown away in a vain attempt to lose weight.

I guess his peers are now referring to him as «Milky Sutherland» in a vain attempt at schoolyard humor.

Once those are balanced and replenished, it solves the majority of health issues people attempt in vain to correct by other means.

After that I tried to recover our relationship by all means but every attempt proved to be in vain.

Thus a large number of people have suffered over the years with attempting to get some other person that's Jewish but in vain.

The senior staff's attempt to help a nurse enter medical school to become a doctor is complicated Doctor Dildo Xxx Tube, he or she suddenly realizes that too much time and money was wasted in vain.

I may be reading too much into this film in a vain attempt to search for any sort of meaning, but there was one storyline that left me feeling odd.

One would hope for more than about 40 - minutes of featurettes in a 2 - Disc Collector's Edition, one fears a double - dip on the horizon, or is it all about Blu - ray now, with us plebeians left to jealously clutch our outdated SD players in a vain attempt to save a few dollars?

Veterans of Shin Megami Tensei: Nocturne and the latter two Persona games will be all to familiar with this scenario: trying to fuse two demons together only to spend forever flipping back and forth and back and forth in a vain attempt to have your new demon inherit at least one of the skills you, y ’ know, actually want.

He is a member of the Boston Society of Film Critics and The National Society of Film Critics and both organizations regret including him because of his tendency to stuff his pockets with free food from the lunch table during meetings and using his credentials in a vain attempt to pick up women.

The young scientist was last seen in Infinity War in her lab, where she attempted in vain to free the Mind Stone from the head of Vision (Paul Bettany).

The most heartbreaking moment of selfishness comes in the other segment where the elderly Imma (Shirley Henderson) has herself flayed alive in a vain attempt to match her sister Dora's beauty, the latter being enchanted by a witch into a lovely maiden.

Ofsted's response to criticism is to frequently change its inspection framework in a vain attempt to «keep pace» with all the new priorities for inspection.

Which is to say... do a bit of research on the realities of EV's before going off half cocked in the vain attempt to prove EV's to be anything other than what they are.

What I'm fighting is the 350 lb orangutan about to enter the oval office's bullying, lying and abject 4th grade rhetoric in his vain attempt to make America 1950's early 60's Great Again..

by the very man thats been trying so hard to silence all of us for years in his vain attempts to push forward with Marchinonne's Madness..

I guess it's a vain attempt to convince myself the grass is greener on the other side of the fence and I'm worthy in the eyes of my traditional published peers who raise their brow over my «vanity.»

All this was accomplished so quickly that the priest felt no pain, but only boundless shock as the grip released him and he stumbled forward, one hand clutching at his perforated throat in a vain attempt to stem the flow of the warm blood that sluiced irresistibly through his fingers.

Heavy makeup was smeared over the scar where his brain had been removed in a vain attempt to figure out the illness that had robbed him of his life.

AT&T has come out first with firm pricing and launch details for the Mega 6.3, with the phone launching this Friday at $ 149.99 with a new 2 year agreement, while Sprint and US Cellular have yet to disclose their own pricing and launch details, other than to announce that they will be carrying the device and Sprint will be allowing truly unlimited data, in a vain attempt to play up its Unlimited for Life marketing campaign.

Take your profits when your targets get hit, don't change targets in an effort to try and get «just a little bit more» profit... These attempts to get a «little more profit» are usually in vain, and they usually lead to you letting a winning trade turn into a losing trade.

Too many traders are trying to double their accounts every month in some vain attempt to get rich quick.