Sentences with phrase «in vain after»

American Pie remains a beloved comedy on my shelves not only because it revived the 80's «teens running in vain after tail» sex romp, but it did so with terrific humor and endearing personalities.

But it is satisfying that his work was not in vain after all.

From the penalty stroke Helen Richardson - Walsh equalised but it proved to be in vain after Merry's late heroics.

I would make faces in vain after seeing that slimy mass on my plate, hoping that she would stop making the same... someday.

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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.

I'll use the space I've been offered to say this: Your aid to Houston after Hurricane Harvey will not be in vain.

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.

After a big chorus in which McMillan sings, Nothing stands between us, oh / Nothing stands between us but love now, the music builds to a crescendo, and he sings, Have I tried to scale Your walls in vain?

In closing to all my Christian brtheren who read this remember the words of warning given to us about such things in the book of Colossians chapter 2 verse 8: «beware lest any man spoil you through philosophy and vain deceit; after the traditions of men, after the rudiments of the world, and not after Christ.&raquIn closing to all my Christian brtheren who read this remember the words of warning given to us about such things in the book of Colossians chapter 2 verse 8: «beware lest any man spoil you through philosophy and vain deceit; after the traditions of men, after the rudiments of the world, and not after Christ.&raquin the book of Colossians chapter 2 verse 8: «beware lest any man spoil you through philosophy and vain deceit; after the traditions of men, after the rudiments of the world, and not after Christ.»

Suggestive therapeutics abound in records of cure, after a few sittings, of inveterate bad habits with which the patient, left to ordinary moral and physical influences, had struggled in vain.

Neither has any doctrine ever so carefully defended itself against the most shocking of all blasphemies, that after God had taken this step it then should be taken in vain, as though God and man coalesced in one and the same thing — never has any doctrine ever defended itself against this as Christianity has, which defends itself by the help of the offense.

And, in a game with Washington, Lee Thomas let go of the ball so early in his windup that it fell two or three yards behind him while he looked, bewildered and in vain, after its nonexistent flight.

He is the greatest, vainest, loudest, most beloved (after having been the most reviled) and most admiredathlete in history.

What about Walcot giving us the fans a break after years of waiting in vain in anticipation of his accliamed potential

The Wenger out comments after the Swansea game were one way traffic, after a draw at Spurs, it's in the balance, if Wenger wins against Hull, I dare someone to mention his name in vain!

i think this could officially be the start of the end for wenger his blind arrogance has cause him to buy welbeck in the sheer belief that AGAINST THE ODDS HE CAN BEAT THE REST OF THE BIG 4 WITH ONE ARM BEHIND HIS BACK we should be buying top top top european c / l standard players not sunderland spuds everton standard players thats about welbecks standard of club in all truthful reality he is an honest hard working player but wenger thinks he can coach the mediocrity out of him he is truely insane its a guaranteed source of goals we need not more fancy hold up play and «pace» and missing chance after chance so the postman is to be joined by the manchester metro tram absolute disgrace he has kidded on ozil and sanchez they must be wondering what is going on atm they are seeing the true wenger now just panicking and not panicking very well to that effect and for some reason wenger has gone all kinky for english players for some strange reason at least chambers has great potential welbeck has past that stage and is a seasoned pro now and he is no where near what we need wenger is trying to show how great he is by whiping the back out of the same players week after week in the vain hope that he can win the league without rotating ever and they will get injured and he wont have learned his lesson and we will pay for it in the end best last day transfer would have been a 4 year contract for klopp

Liverpool have also been touted as a possible destination for the Colombian after Mario Balotelli and Rickie Lambert have flopped since their summer moves but their efforts to lure him to Anfield could be in vain.

After one loss last season, mindful of the long road to respectability, he went up to Tomlinson, who in his first three seasons has rushed for 4,564 yards on a team that has won 17 games, and told him, «I'm going to do everything in my power to make sure your career is not played in vain.»

«They're so experienced,» said Hawkeye coach Tom Davis, after his team tried in vain to disrupt Duke with full - court pressure.

Jonjo Shelvey drilled a seventh - minute free - kick straight at the defensive wall, and the Magpies were appealing in vain for a penalty seconds later after Kenedy went to ground inside the box.

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However, it was Russia who finished strongly with substitute Aleksandr Bukharov appealing in vain for a last - gasp penalty after going down in the box before defender Georgy Dzhikya heading inches over Rui Patricio's crossbar deep into injury - time.

So much so that I remember Wales flying him into Finland at the last moment, so that he could play, and play effervescently, after Newcastle's then manager Bobby Robson had tried in vain to stop him going.

Spurs probed in vain for an equaliser before half time but the game was turned on it's head minutes after the second 45 began when Gaston Ramirez saw red for lashing out at Jan Vertonghen.

Finally, after searching for some time in vain, the helpful passerby asks, «Are you sure you dropped them near this streetlamp?»

Is it really so bad to celebrate Christmas and channel the «spirit» of Santa instead of trying in vain to wrongly assure a kid that Santa is real after all?

But I was ready, excited and anxious to take my body back for myself after each pregnancy — not in a vain way, but in the most basic way of, «This is how I'm going to thrive and survive as a new mom.»

In 1979, after Smith had tried in vain to reach an agreement with Mugabe, the British agreed to monitor the changeover to black majority rule and the UN lifted sanctionIn 1979, after Smith had tried in vain to reach an agreement with Mugabe, the British agreed to monitor the changeover to black majority rule and the UN lifted sanctionin vain to reach an agreement with Mugabe, the British agreed to monitor the changeover to black majority rule and the UN lifted sanctions.

«Your brother did not die in vain,» stated Cuomo of Brodwer's brother Kalief, who committed suicide in 2015, two years after being released from Rikers Island, where he had spent three years awaiting trial on charges involving a stolen backpack.

After signing up with a temp agency, Zeldin was sent to work as a cleaner at a bank, alongside trying in vain to get a job to «sparkle clean» Heathrow's Terminal 2.

Then after Diane Abbott attempted in vain to evoke some signature jowly reddening from the PM, the Labour leader returned.

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.

For the first year after my split, I spoke with her and took her advice to heart, studying archetypes and trying in vain to be some near - enlightened version of myself.

I searched in vain for articles that would help me build back up to my yoga practice after having a baby.

Sacha and her husband, Edmund, created Common Good in 2011 after searching in vain for eco-friendly and refillable household products that were safe for their kids and pets; when they could not find anything on the market, they paired up with a green chemist and decided to make their own.

After being in relationship with Wilson for seven years, he broke up with me, I did everything possible to bring him back but all was in vain, I wanted him back so much because of the love I have for him, I begged him with everything, I made promises but he refused.

I had huge expectations from this toner but all in vain, it did nothing and moreover after using this product I started having little pus filled bumps on my face.

After years spent searching in vain for a good sports bra, Jennifer decided to channel her frustration creatively.

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

I tried in vain to get a hold of In Another Country, which shakes up the usual formula somewhat with the inclusion of Isabelle Huppert among his South Korean settings, after its belated Stateside release last year, so I'm thrilled to see it hit Netfliin vain to get a hold of In Another Country, which shakes up the usual formula somewhat with the inclusion of Isabelle Huppert among his South Korean settings, after its belated Stateside release last year, so I'm thrilled to see it hit NetfliIn Another Country, which shakes up the usual formula somewhat with the inclusion of Isabelle Huppert among his South Korean settings, after its belated Stateside release last year, so I'm thrilled to see it hit Netflix.

Set during and after the Civil War in Massachusetts, «Little Women» centers on the titular March sisters: responsible eldest daughter Meg (Willa Fitzgerald), tomboyish Jo (Maya Hawke), compassionate Beth (Annes Elwy), and the vain Amy (Kathryn Newton).

After two years in space, the crew tries again in vain to blast open a new energy source to save the Earth.

Final Destination 3 sees the same age teens stuck in the same situation as the first two films, trying to figure out, mostly in vain, how to cheat death, after they've all escaped from a calamity meant for them.

After losing his job, a lovely assistant, Jane (Olivia Wilde) tries in vain to help.

So when an equally broke but wonderfully mohawked concert promoter (David W. Thompson) can't pay them after his show is canceled, he sets them up with a gig on their way back home so they won't have made the trip in vain.

Roy Romer, the former Colorado governor who retired last year after six years as superintendent of L.A. Unified, tried in vain before leaving his job to convince the mayor, state legislators, and the governor that the district was not failing.

The distributor change was not in vain because the older one was already very worn out and used to get the governor stuck with advanced timing after a few revs.

After waiting in vain for the missing volumes to be added - B&N said it was the responsibility of a vendor - I requested a refund, and Barnes and Noble gave me one without any argument.

After attempting in vain to remove the coffee stains from your once - virgin pages, you'd type the thing up afresh and start all over again.

After having done all the toil in preparing a great manuscript, no writer would want to let his efforts go in vain by poor formatting, typesetting and design of his book.