Sentences with phrase «futile efforts of»

In this market, when it seems that even finding an agent willing to take on an author's project can mean years of querying and futile efforts of trying to make connections, many authors are shifting their focus away from the business end of publishing in favor of a lower key approach that allows them to retain control over their work and spend more time writing with less time trying to become published.

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Finally, a growing number of union leaders are abandoning the futile efforts to achieve incremental reforms of the current ossified and defunct labor law and instead are calling for opening up labor law to encourage and protect workers who experiment with these and other more fluid and varied activities free from reprisals.

Put another way, this sport confounds sheiks and scions of American dynasties who drop millions of dollars in futile efforts to breed a Kentucky Derby...

Now Buffett, as someone who over the course of his investing career has significantly outperformed the S&P 500, knows that it is not an entirely futile effort for those who enter the field.

Coal's «natural» rate of decline may not be fast enough to meet long - term US carbon goals — for that, it will need a policy boost — but it is fast enough to render Trump's effort utterly futile.

If you are trying to convince those who are believers that they should not believe, your efforts are futile since we know not to let anyone take us captive through hollow and deceptive philosophy which depends on human tradition and the basic principles of this world rather than on Christ.

Every expectation of Jesus is only another futile effort to get him back in the tomb.

Yet the tension was there under the surface: the leaders» fear of a popular uprising if they tried to silence Jesus by force; their futile efforts to trap him in his speech; the crowd's evident satisfaction when he put his opponents to confusion.

And I have eleventy - billion of these moments a day too, seemingly small, times when my breath catches and I have no camera or pen nearby so I'm going to have to rely on my something in my soul remembering it forever because it's a step up a mountain, a roll of the rock of my own stubbornness, and I don't have any gods at the top, pushing me back to the bottom, laughing at my futile efforts.

Of quietly shutting bedroom doors in a futile effort to keep tinies sleeping in and, oh, sing for that first cup of teOf quietly shutting bedroom doors in a futile effort to keep tinies sleeping in and, oh, sing for that first cup of teof tea.

As one realizes what reality is, and sees the frantic and futile efforts people make to control it for the supposed interests of an illusory self, one is filled with compassion.

For this reason, efforts to prevent sinful humans from tampering with the pristine character of holy writ are futile.

In his 1940 essay, «Why the Christian Church is not Pacifist,» Reinhold Niebuhr wrote: «Nothing is more futile and pathetic than the effort of some [Christians] who find it necessary to become involved in the relativities of politics, in resistance to tyranny or in social conflict, to justify themselves by seeking to prove that Christ was also involved in these relativities, that he used whips to drive the money - changers out of the Temple...»

The written law was but the last of a series of futile efforts to bring Israel to God's marriage bed by means of intermediaries.

Jesus is the only way to heaven — his sacrifice on the cross for the forgiveness of sins is the only way to have your sins forgiven — every human effort to save ourselves is futile as our own works are worthless in the sight of a Holy and perfect God.

The passion of God not only motivates us to eliminate whatever suffering can be eliminated; it also empowers us to accompany our brothers and sisters into regions of darkness where suffering can no longer be eliminated; it enables and invites us to share suffering where efforts to overcome it prove futile; it frees us to continue a ministry of compassion and shared grief at the point where those who are guided by criteria of utitlity and success cease their efforts.

He directs it chiefly at medical specialists who look upon disease and death as enemies to be conquered and who carry attempts to overcome them to the point of giving the patient false hopes of recovery, disregarding his suffering in futile efforts to score a medical triumph.

Theologians have had to go through a dizzying series of contortions in an often futile effort to implant a vital theology of incarnation into imaginations shaped in the context of Western classical philosophies of God.

It simply asserts what is patently the fact, that all of our efforts are as a drop in the bucket, are indeed futile and stupid, when we seek to live as if the immediacies of our own actions were the ultimate governing principles of existence.

At a Catholic liturgy today, one is aware not of those present but of those absent; of the on - going futile effort to save the saved and enthuse those already enthusiastic (or those who fake it well).

John Thomas, brushing the flecks of sawdust from his arms after his last futile effort at Rome, so obviously wondering how the world's best high jumper could lose the one time he wanted most to win.

Of course Billy Davies splashed the cash in the summer on the likes of Chris Gunter and Paul McKenna, but I can't help thinking (and hoping, I admit) that their inactivity over the last month — whether the result of complacency or masking frantic but ultimately futile behind - the - scenes efforts — may come to haunt theOf course Billy Davies splashed the cash in the summer on the likes of Chris Gunter and Paul McKenna, but I can't help thinking (and hoping, I admit) that their inactivity over the last month — whether the result of complacency or masking frantic but ultimately futile behind - the - scenes efforts — may come to haunt theof Chris Gunter and Paul McKenna, but I can't help thinking (and hoping, I admit) that their inactivity over the last month — whether the result of complacency or masking frantic but ultimately futile behind - the - scenes efforts — may come to haunt theof complacency or masking frantic but ultimately futile behind - the - scenes efforts — may come to haunt them.

But this was when the Club's record buy showed exactly why he holds that status, with a first - time shot that had the astonished Stipica frantically backtracking in an ultimately futile effort to keep the ball out of his net.

My Dh is always complaining about how cluttered our house is, like it's sooooo easy to keep the house clean with a four - year - old running around and undoing any of our futile efforts to tidy up.

I was initially devestated at the thought of not being able to give them breastmilk until I started pumping - first as a supplement, then I gave up the futile effort to nurse and pumped exclusively for over a year for my son and am now 4 weeks into pumping for my daughter.

Although initial efforts to get authorities at the Hospital to comment on the matter proved futile, one senior staff who spoke on condition of strict anonymity, said the appointment of Dr. Thomas Anaba, followed a series of processes including the advertisement of a vacant post, shortlisting of candidates and interviews, hence, he does not understand what the qualms of those leading the campaign are.

According to her, the men have turned parts of the forest into a place of abode and countless efforts to get them out of the forest have proved futile.

Of course, if the leader has groomed a successor, it's still a futile effort — but hope, however fleeting, is a powerful drug.

As at the time of going to Press, efforts to reach director of operations John Boadu to speak on this subject has proven futile as he has failed to answer his phone calls.

He said the attack was alleged to have come from a certain Adedipe, adding that though an arrest warrant of the suspect was ready, efforts to get him has proved futile but the case is still under investigation.

He described the insinuation as an attempt to propagate falsehood and a futile effort to misinform members of the public on the true security situation in the North - East.

Efforts by newsmen to reach Professor Akoroda, the embattled Executive Director of CRIN were futile as he was allegedly taking refuge at the nearby Idi - Ayunre Divisional Police Station.

He stood stiffly amidst other residents of Orin Ekiti, who had been making futile efforts to console him following the loss of his wife, Mnwaga, 25, and their unborn baby.

Ms. Been argued that the city could use a toolkit of zoning, tax abatements and public financing to encourage the private market to accommodate more low - income people — but said efforts to stop the city's shifting real estate landscape are futile.

Separately, Kenneth Ka - Ho Lee, an embryologist and stem cell researcher at the Chinese University of Hong Kong who live - blogged about his futile attempts to reproduce STAP cells, today published all the details of his efforts online at F1000Research.

The authors call for the development of clinical guidelines to support physicians in their effort to reduce potentially futile drug treatments near the end of life.

In reality, succumbing to any of these two naïve approaches can actually obstruct your progress and not having a game plan that lets you meet all your caloric and macronutrient needs will make your gym efforts more or less futile.

However, years of misguided materiality and the endless pursuit of the latest and greatest «things» have proven futile in my efforts to live a meaningful existence.

Newtown (Unrated) Political gridlock expose» chronicling a grieving Connecticut community's futile lobbying effort for gun reform legislation in the wake of the mass murder of 6 teachers and 20 students at an elementary school.

Since Mr. Sickleman is the police chief, all Henry's efforts to go to the authorities — like the principal he calls by her first name, and the head of child services — are futile.

A fascinating account of an unassuming hero's harrowing ordeal during a futile, decade - long effort to bring the truth about Bernie Madoff to light.

And while Johnson engages in typical, old - school (super) heroics, most of his character's efforts prove to be distractions at best, futile at worst.

Both turned up separately, but still together, last night at the LA premiere of Vicky Cristina Barcelona to support Woody Allen — a sweet but futile effort since the film is almost guaranteed to go straight to dvd.

Though they are in the prime of their youth, Blaise and Nessa are clearly struggling to get by, and the first half of the movie tracks their futile efforts to crawl out of the muck.

He shows he is definitely no Mel Brooks when it comes to ribald satires, as his attempt to stage the comedy is as futile as his previous effort, The Pineapple Express (which featured both Franco as and McBride in a supporting role), and the result appears ugly, with bright textures, phony - looking backdrops, and wounds that look every bit of the CG quality they are.

This is a bleak film, where the heroes efforts to save his daughter feels futile, without a single moment of levity, and never a positive moment of family bliss.

But that didn't stop them from mounting a futile, 11th hour effort to turn the tide by trying to impugn the integrity of this very highly - regarded journalist.

Read between the lines and you've got to wonder why we're embarking on an expensive, and potentially futile, effort to move thousands of teachers from one kind of school to another.

There no longer will be an achievement gap in public education since by using the scientifically proved method of value added analysis school will be able to determine all of the students that are ineffective and there no longer will be a need to waste resources in a totally futile effort to educate these students.

But it was disturbing to hear firsthand about parents» unfulfilled struggles to get their kids a good education and civic leaders» futile efforts to get control of quality.