Sentences with phrase «be in vain as»

It followed that whatever disciplinary measures were used for a particular child, these would be in vain as they would not address the root causes of the problem if the person disciplining the child does not know the child and what he or she is like.

Sadly though, it's attempt to find another tree with which to reproduce will likely be in vain as there's only one more like it in the whole country.According to a report from Sky News, the modest tree is a descendent of a specimen brought to Ireland from China in 1908 by plant collector E.H. Wilson, and one of only two Goat Horn trees that still survives in the country.

Schmeichel's outstretched efforts were in vain as Liverpool doubled their lead and Coutinho relieved some of that weight from his shoulders.

My efforts were in vain as we arrived late.

On the earth - like planet Palma where the dictator resides, a boy called Nero vows to get to the root of the problem by confronting Lassic, but his efforts are in vain as the poor guy is killed off by guards while his adopted sister Alis watches in horror.

Not exact matches

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?&raquAs 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?&raquas 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?»

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.

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 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.

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 1In 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 1in 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 1in 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 1in 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.

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

As for the Dr, in front of your name, I'd bet you are either very vain about it, or it came from a mail order degree mill.

As Paul wrote, «If Christ has not been raised then our proclamation has been in vain.»

But especially because you obviously have no concept of what «blasphemy» is... The fellow you judged didn't take your Jesus» name in vain, he just used the name as part of his conversation while talking about the mythological figure himself...

20 For the invisible things of him since the creation of the world are clearly seen, being perceived through the things that are made, even his everlasting power and divinity; that they may be without excuse: 21 because that, knowing God, they glorified him not as God, neither gave thanks; but became vain in their reasonings, and their senseless heart was darkened.22 Professing themselves to be wise, they became fools, 23 and changed the glory of the incorruptible God for the likeness of an image of corruptible man, and of birds, and four - footed beasts, and creeping things.24 Wherefore God gave them up in the lusts of their hearts unto uncleanness, that their bodies should be dishonored among themselves: 25 for that they exchanged the truth of God for a lie, and worshipped and served the creature rather than the Creator, who is blessed for ever.

Others might gape and wonder, and try in vain to analyze how he did it... to Capa [it was] as easy as breathing.»

And here is perhaps the bitterest irony: As these extreme technologies are deployed to form families, many children without homes yearn in vain to be adopted — even as the adoption process has become increasingly difficult, due to the many bureaucratic hurdles here and tightening restrictions overseaAs these extreme technologies are deployed to form families, many children without homes yearn in vain to be adopted — even as the adoption process has become increasingly difficult, due to the many bureaucratic hurdles here and tightening restrictions overseaas the adoption process has become increasingly difficult, due to the many bureaucratic hurdles here and tightening restrictions overseas.

He was truly horrified and warned me against the things I was telling him as though it was blasphemy to use the name of Calvin in vain.

If that alone is absent, all the other solemnities, even including coition, are in vain, as the great teacher John Chrysostom attests, who says: Not intercourse but will makes marriage.»

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»

I've always thought that a so - called «god» that could be so petty and vain as to demand that people worship him or burn for all eternity was quite a silly thing to WANT to believe in.

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.

And as Paul says, if Christ is not raised, our faith is in vain (1 Cor 15:17).

Again, we may notice that the model used to picture God in much popular religious talk, and in some theological talk too, was borrowed, as Whitehead noted in his Modes of Thought (Free Press, 1968, p. 49), from «the characteristics of the touchy, vain, imperious tyrants who ruled the empires of the world.»

and that, in general, no man knows what is good for him «all the days of his vain life which he spendeth as a shadow.»

While it is of course true that those who belong to this school are perhaps most vocal in their assertion that in our Lord alone may God be seen at work, and while it is they who denounce the concept of «general» revelation as a vain fancy of sub-Christian speculation, a considerable number of other Christian thinkers take what in effect is the same position when they make central to their teaching a kind of uniqueness in the coming and the person of Christ which effectively removes him from the context of the total sell - expressive operation of the Eternal Word.

Now then, for that (reason), call (them to the Faith), and stand steadfast as thou art commanded, nor follow thou their vain desires; but say: «I believe in whatever Book Allah has sent down; and I am commanded to judge justly between you.

Those who are by strong predisposition morally evil «are moved in vain by compunction to righteousness, just as, for the most part, good are tempted to sin without harm.

Theologizing and disciplining may be seen as the images show them here, as preparation; but unless they issue in function, they are vain.

While remarking that of course a barbarous age is not expected to hold to modern standards of decency, Chamberlain writes: «At the same time the whole range of literature might be ransacked in vain for a parallel to the naïve filthiness of the passage forming Section IV, or to the extraordinary topic which the hero Yamato - take and his mistress Miyazu are made to select as the theme of their repartee.»

Bishop Donald (pictured below) declined to comment specifically on the case but told Premier: «It hurts me deeply as a Christian if the name of the Lord Jesus is abused or taken in vain or Christian symbols such as the cross.

But it must be said, and as outspokenly as possible, that the so - called Christendom (in which after a sort all men are Christians in a way, so that there are just as many, precisely as many Christians as there are men)-- it must be said that not only is it a wretched edition of Christianity, full of misprints disturbing to the sense, and of senseless omissions and additions, but that it has abusively taken Christianity's name in vain.

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

But in vain he struggles thus; the difficulty he stumbled against demands a breach with immediacy as a whole, and for that he has not sufficient self - reflection or ethical reflection; he has no consciousness of a self which is gained by the infinite abstraction from everything outward, this naked, abstract self (in contrast to the clothed self of immediacy) which is the first form of the infinite self and the forward impulse in the whole process whereby a self infinitely accepts its actual self with all its difficulties and advantages.

We look in vain in the gospels for any such elaborate scheme of rules for living as were offered by contemporary moralists, Jewish and Greek.

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

21 Because that, when they knew God, they glorified him not as God, neither were thankful; but became vain in their imaginations, and their foolish heart was darkened.

i don't mean being punished becuase i don't believe but because i take his name in vain all the time, i lie, i have stolen, gambled, cheated, i have done everything on the list of things not to do, all but kill... i am saving that for a rainy day... and as far as free will, i have heard you religious folks say that god has a plan for us all... ok so a divine plan AND free will... so we have the power to say yes or no but our overall destiny is set in stone?

Cq, The Catholics to whom you refer as waiting for a new, more «liberal» Church are waiting in vain.

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.

Otherwise it would be too easy to decide that since no human cause is without sin or deserving of our ultimate loyalty, since none will result in the perfect good, we may as well just sit back and sagely observe from an uninvolved distance the vain and foolish strivings of humanity.

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

Hence admiration and wonder at the inexhaustible life forces of nature is as wholly lacking as the typically modern horror of blind nature against which spiritual, personal life rebels in vain.

The Dark Ages are reasserted as dark, as if all the recent scholarly work to shed light upon late antiquity were in vain.

History would be folly if it were done in the vain hope of reconstructing the past as it actually was.

He knew by his cleverness exactly what his frivolous people needed, in order that they should not simply take the earnestness of the Good in vain, and thereby be led to pay the wise man a good deal of money as a reward for having deceived them.

He has lightly taken the reflection in vain, as if it were the healing quality of the medicine, and as the healing is about to begin, he light - mindedly misunderstands the reflection as a delusion.

«What can be expressed here if not Paul's deep concern that the Church shall be one «51 For Paul, his work would have been in vain if it had to be considered as a special or separatist Gospel.