Sentences with phrase «in vain hope»

It's been there since I started and it taunts me every day as I make endless cups of peppermint tea in the vain hope they will «give a sense of fullness».

Last place I remembered seeing it was on the roof of my car, where I put it while I took the hula hoops out of the boot, before driving Husband to work... I turned the house upside down in the vain hope it was there.

Last place I remembered seeing it was on the roof of my car, where I put it while I took the Sprogs» hula hoops out of the boot, before driving Husband to work... I turned the house upside down in the vain hope it was there.

Regardless of how much time, money and effort you are willing to spend on these people, regardless of how many concessions you are making in the vain hope of trying to make this difficult - to - please person happy, you will never succeed.

Now it's not the time to leave everything to the politicians in the vain hope they will control the situation.

The Bar and the Law Society split their functions to create separate regulatory operations in the vain hope of seeing off external regulation.

We will even senselessly spend more time or money on the same object or effort (rather than wisely take our losses), sometimes in the vain hope that we can recoup what has been lost or somehow mitigate the loss.

No wonder the only course of action is to keep one's head down, retain an inane corporate smile and quietly spill the beans and air the concerns in the vain hope that positive changes might someday occur.

With climate change now more and more an establishment concern, and attempts to avert it now increasingly institutionalized in the established order, some have pointed to the «death of environmentalism» as an oppositional movement in society.12 However, if some environmentalists have moved toward capitalist - based strategies in the vain hope of saving the planet by these means, others have moved in the opposite direction: toward a critique of capitalism as inherently ecologically destructive.

If you are really interested in this (and not just interested in grasping at straws in a vain hope that adding more GHG's to the Earth's atmosphere will have no effect) you should pick up a text book on introductory atmospheric physics or atmospheric radiative transfer.

When staring death in the face, we should go to ground or use our equipment, but in the heat of the moment it's all too easy to clench the triggers and throw a grenade god knows where in the vain hope that we take someone with us.

The premise is simple: an isolated community of slaves has been bred by the forces of evil for the sole purpose of fighting for said evil overlords» entertainment, in the vain hope that these warrior slaves can defeat the challenges presented before them and win their freedom.

but don't stockpile miles in the vain hope that American starts getting more liberal with its award space....

Yeah son... thats a heck of a life you've carved out for yourself... trolling the net 24/7/365 in the obsessive pursuit of a target in the vain hope of attaining some sense of vendetta.

There's also the fact that states have long allowed districts and teachers to simply come up with their own curricula (a legacy of the slapdash approach long in vogue within American public education) in the vain hope that they would actually align teaching with them.

In what looks like it will be a preposterous tongue - in - cheek affair, two rival North Carolina politicians, Cam Brady (Ferrell), and Marty Huggins (Galifianakis), grapple with each other in the vain hope of one day becoming president of the US.

Reading this in vain hope of relief myself....

For its appeal, the soy industry submitted a meta - analysis of 23 studies in the vain hope that EFSA would accept the general conclusions.

Moderate members like me aren't prepared to allow Corbyn the luxury of leading Labour into the electoral abyss in the vain hope that this dose of real democracy will banish the hard left forever.

«These «Super Committee» Democrats have put all their concessions on the table up front in the vain hope that the Republicans might reciprocate,» AFL - CIO President Richard Trumka said in a statement.

Fail to do this and UKIP supporters, including one - time Labour ones, will reluctantly vote Tory in the vain hope this will give them a say.

For just over an hour and a quarter, self - important bubble Davies, supported by sycophantic squeak Chris Chope MP, talked and talked in vain hope that the proposal would run out of time and fail.

Don't use all your energy trying to «fix» it: Driving yourself mad trying a million different things in the vain hope it will sort the issue.

Mash baby onto boob and I have gotten the baby to cling to the breast in the vain hope of replacing the love only the hat can provide.

We now appear to have a manager who has grasped the principal that players need to be played in positions where they are comfortable, rather than shuffling the same 11 players around the field in a vain hope that they will eventually click into place.

The Wenger Out craze — started by disgruntled Arsenal fans in the vain hope of getting the club to part company with their manager (or vice versa)-- went truly global.

I believe Wenger is living in the past and is ruining Arsenal in his vain hope of fulfilling his dream of getting Arsenal to play like long ago Barcelona.

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

We are now a mid table team that rejoices in injuries to big rivals in the vain hope of beating them.

The best we can hope for this season is mid table and perhaps a relegation fight in the vain hope that those ruining our club move on to another profit making venture.

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.

My normal tale of woe is letting the mixture become too wet, sticking it in the freezer in vain hope of shaping it into sad little patties, and then watching them fall apart on the barbeque whilst consoling myself with a large glass of wine.

Do you REALLY believe you are right, or do you just enjoy repeating the lie in the vain hope it will become true?

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

Many modern Americans, Hibbs pointed out, persist in the vain hope that healthy eating, regular exercise, and seatbelts will somehow protect them from the indignities of aging and death.

And you have two options; the first is to hang onto the old model in the vain hopes it will resurrect.

They'll do this again and again in vain hopes that there will be no one there to dispute them.

I'm still tweeting at Nintendo of America to this day, just in the vain hopes of getting a re-release of Advance Wars Dual Strike on the Nintendo Wii U. It's already been available in the UK for months now.

I have definitely been clicking the inactive link over the past while, in vain hoping it would magically work if I clicked in just the right spot.

Not exact matches

«They want to cut programs and they hope in vain that the same plan that has been in place for the last 10 years will still work and will kick - start the economy,» the Liberal leader said in Trois - Rivieres, Que.

One defender of the faith said, «If man and monkeys, magpies and mackerel, mosquitoes and moles are all alike the descendants of the earth and sea, then is our religion vain and we are without hope and without God in the world.»

But if our only hope that a sustainable sexual morality will once again become widely accepted in Western society is instinct, we hope in vain.

Resurrection is here closely associated with martyrdom; it is a «wonderful reward reserved for those who die a godly death».7 This kind of resurrection hope arose spontaneously, but perhaps irrationally, from those who, observing martyrdom, had no other way of expressing their conviction that the martyr had not died in vain.

We have said that hope that one's own spirit might grow in love to God and man is not vain, for God's grace is real.

They made loud speeches about divorce, adultery and fasting, hoping in vain to coerce him into agreeing with them.

They see that some of us are so self - interested, and so self - protective, that we will ally ourselves with someone who violates all that is sacred to us — in hope, almost certainly a vain hope given his mendacity and record of betrayal, that his rule will save us.

Even the excitement with which we have greeted each new technique has been due in part to the vain hope that it might solve the field's basic anomaly.

But let's hope that Barnhill's vision is not entirely in vain.

Confidence in the emergence of a new world culture to perform the function of supplying Protestants with the same kind of unity which they once derived from Western European culture is a vain and illusory hope.

The hope that, by farming the sea, increasing the yield of grains, or otherwise working a miracle of production in food science and technology we can in the nick of time prevent mass starvation without any of the affluent having to give up current privileges, is vain.