Sentences with phrase «in vain at»

However, one looks in vain at ERA 1996, s 129 (or in the corresponding provision considered in Taplin, s 78 of the Employment Protection Act 1975) for any reference to exceptionality as a material consideration when construing the statutory word «likely».

I looked at in vain at the statues governing Boards of Education, at the MMSD Policies, at the District Philosophy, at the Mission Statement, at the Strategic Plan for any reference that could support not raising property taxes as a goal superior to providing the best possible education for the students in their charge.

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

Not exact matches

An Israeli entrepreneur, Shor discovered that the health care industry has long struggled in vain to find ways to get people to take the right meds at the right time — or to take them at all.

Whoever does not use his judgment to the utmost to keep the necessary reserve with them, will exert it in vain later on when he endeavors to extricate himself from the labyrinth, a misfortune which most often ends only at death.»

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.

Accepting at face value the assertion that Rick Perry has a Divine calling to run for the Republican nomination, we are lead to the question of whether it was a call to Mr. Perry to become the nominee or whether it was, instead, a call to Mr. Perry to teach a lesson about how people should not take the Name in vain in order to obtain political office.

Inscriptions and piles of wine amphorae give us a vivid picture of feasting at tombs of the dead, a practice Augustine tried in vain to discourage.

Most so called» religious wars» were nothing more than atheistic leaders trying in vain to use God for there immmoral purposes and had nothing to do with True faith at all.

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.

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.

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.»

Sometimes it is hard to discern the systematic function of a particular passage, while at the same point one looks in vain for a discussion of other questions that are necessarily related to the overall structure of his enterprise.

At the surface level of the texts they have bequeathed to us, we search in vain for psychological insights or any attempts to correlate theological or ethical assertions with human realities which we label psychological.

Enjoy life with the wife whom you love, all the days of your vain life which he has given you under the sun, because that is your portion in life and in your toil at which you toil under the sun.

But when now peril was at hand, it stretched its wings and tried to fly — in vain.

While we disagree on whether the evidence for that miracle is convincing, Brown, myself and the apostle Paul are in complete agreement on this at least: that if Christ has not been raised, our faith is in vain.

At best, if they mean merely to allow or encourage professed Christians to confuse the Living God with the «generic God» propping up the pledge's «ceremonial deism,» they propose a taking of the Lord's name in vain.

It just saddens me that you seem to have gotten sidetracked in a vain quest to «change the world» thru planting «churches» that are not in fact churches --- at least not if you still accept the authority of the scriptures and it's definition of what constitutes the Body of Christ, both universally and locally.

The State bears the sword, and at the best, as seen in Romans XIII, it does not wield it in vain.

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.

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.

Therefore God must take this maul in hand (the law, I mean) to beat in pieces and bring to nothing this beast with her vain confidence, that she may so learn at length by her own misery that she is utterly forlorn and damned.

But at the same time Bonhoeffer also believed that our prayer and worship are all in vain if they make no difference to our lives or to the way we treat our neighbours.

However, this effort to save Hartshorne's position seems in vain to Neville, for it terminates the explanation of the existence of reality in a transcendent individual who consists of or at least causes the illustration of the categories; for Neville, such an individual needs an explanation as much as any other instance of order, and the fact that no explanation can be found on Hartshorne's grounds simply shows again the futility of «rationalism» on this issue.

Look for just a moment at the religious symbols used in profanity, for these symbols have come to be viewed as covered by the third Commandment: «You shall not take the name of the Lord your God in vain.»

But I try, When I dress you up in fine, fashionable clothes so that you will look like the others, When I keep you at home to protect you from the world, When I try, in vain, to fight the pull of time so it won't change anything about the way you laugh, the way you whisper, the way you play — all these little ways I know are yours alone.

Paul III (1534 - 49), in a vain attempt to halt the divisions in the church, convened a council at Trent.

This last thought may make my hero J. Gresham Machen spin in his grave, but: In spite of the theological problems in the mainline, those traditions do at least have some sense of what it means to be the church within a culture, rather than seeking in vain for some extra-cultural Archimedean Poinin his grave, but: In spite of the theological problems in the mainline, those traditions do at least have some sense of what it means to be the church within a culture, rather than seeking in vain for some extra-cultural Archimedean PoinIn spite of the theological problems in the mainline, those traditions do at least have some sense of what it means to be the church within a culture, rather than seeking in vain for some extra-cultural Archimedean Poinin the mainline, those traditions do at least have some sense of what it means to be the church within a culture, rather than seeking in vain for some extra-cultural Archimedean Poinin vain for some extra-cultural Archimedean Point.

I searched in vain for an image of Our Lady of Guadalupe at St. Anthony's Monastery.

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.

With a short blunt knife, his throat is sawn at, while his legs scramble in vain.

wenger is one of the old guard hanging on past glories in a vain hope it can spur him on to win one more title but we will see what happens at the end of season and most importantly this summer it could be the most vital transfer window of wengers career at arsenal he must get it spot on for us to progress.

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

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

The counselor and coach who had been so quick to retain Whatley's services had hurried in vain; LoVett had snorkeled academically ever since enrolling at Oklahoma City in the fall of 1995: He had missed classes and tutoring sessions, and now, as the fall - semester grades posted on Dec. 18 revealed, he had failed three courses and taken incompletes in two others, thereby sinking irretrievably below the 2.0 grade point average required to remain eligible to play under NAIA rules.

At midnight we were back in the village, feeling much, I suppose, as the English knights felt as they gave up the vain pursuit of an enemy that struck and disappeared, then came disconsolately home, sweating and clanking in their expensive armor.

about Arsene Wenger not signing his latest Arsenal contract extension and possibly standing down at the end of the season, but it seems like all the protests and newsprint has all been in vain.

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.

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

Arsène will assure us he will be working until midnight on 31st August to reinforce the squad but will depart for a cup of cocoa and a read of L'Equipe at 5.30 pm as Sky Sports search in vain for him.

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.

Nabil Fekir scores for Lyon, but it goes in vain as Rennes beat OL 2 - 1 at Stade Gerland in this Ligue 1 clash on 22 August, 2015 Continue reading →

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.

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.

This is our plight, a following condemned to perpetual cursing amid blessing, deafness amid listening, dumbness amid talking — all at once in vain.

The Peoples Democratic Party has called on Nigerians to continue to live together in peace, adding that the sacrifices of past leaders aiming at keeping the country together must not be in vain.

While volunteers are signing up at a steady pace, some of the volunteers who signed up for the platform are waiting in vain for someone to connect them with the campaign.

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.