Sentences with phrase «in vain as»

However the activity was not in vain as it provided inspiration for a quick compilation post.

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.

The money on such programmes is spent in vain as far as emissions are concerned.

Other than a handful of people who appreciated my efforts, I think all my time was spent in vain as 90 % of the people there held a level of dogmatic certitude that was unassailable by logic.

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.

And unlike most torture porn, at least this victim didn't die in vain as all by - products of the show are recycled into art, with the best of the bunch featured on exhibit at the Baltimore National Modern Art Museum.

If your balance is $ 10,000, then $ 250 goes in vain as pure interest each month.

The discount though has not been entirely in vain as Woot reported having sold 612 of the WebOS running tablets during the period.

Likewise, The Weinstein Company's third consecutive MPAA ratings appeal triumph — which managed to get the movie re-rated from R to PG - 13 without editing any content — seems as in vain as the studio's preceding mission to give the world a family - friendly PG - 13 The King's Speech.

My efforts were in vain as we arrived late.

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Bettinelli grasped in vain as the header hit the back of the net and Maupay celebrated in front of the visiting fans.

Pierre Lasogga's double goes in vain as Millwall score two late goals to beat Leeds at Elland Road

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

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Their patience throughout the day was not in vain as they brought back a fantastic 62 — 41 victory over their opposition!

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The followers could only speculate in vain as to what he meant by the mysterious version of Hegel.

Christ did not pray for this world (John 17:9) and the prayers of the so - called Christians are all in vain as they teach for doctrines the commandments of men (Matthew 15:9).

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.

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.

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.

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).

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.»

But the use of alcohol as a self - prescribed pain - deadener creates a runaway symptom of increasing drinking in a vain attempt to overcome the psychological and physiological pain resulting from previous excessive drinking.

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.