Sentences with phrase «of vain efforts»

We are tired of fighting, tired of vain efforts to advance the Kingdom through politics and power, tired of drawing lines in the sand, tired of being known for what we are against, not what we are for.

God's power becomes available to man to complete his incompleteness and purge him of his vain efforts at self - completion.

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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.

They may do a great job, but if their efforts are not in alignment with the overall goals of the company, even the most perfect effort is in vain.

But all of her efforts were in vain.

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.

Adds the former president of a national environmental organization, who has looked in vain for support from religious groups in efforts to protect wilderness and wildlife: «The Unitarians occasionally let us meet in their buildings; that's been our primary contact with churches on this issue.»

The article by Eric Marrapodi is misleading and the issues he writes about are void of any spiritual understanding and the future will confirm that the efforts by the Archdiocese of Hartford are all in vain.

Furthermore, there is value in teaching the hard truths of Christianity, and trusting in God that our efforts will not be in vain.

A few years later I was sitting in the home of one of the great elder statesmen of German New Testament scholarship, attempting to describe to him my efforts to relate Freud and Paul (however much I knew it would be in vain).

In fact, I am heading an international team of more than forty, mostly younger scholars who, over the past decade, have been trying to decide just how that Greek source read, before Matthew and Luke updated it, but, thank goodness, left it sufficiently intact that our efforts are not in vain.

After the War came a vain effort called the League of Nations.

Niebuhr admitted that he had tried to purge the doctrine of original sin of some of its cruder traditional interpretations, but this effort proved vain for his modern readers.

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.

Cantor spent the last thirty - five years of his life in a vain effort to prove this.

The women knew their effort was in vain: No box of unguent, myrrh, or aloes could Prevent the corpse from rotting; muscles would» with bones and sinews» turn to dust again.

Why so much effort and so much money spent to enter the top 4 in every single year?Just to be embarrased everytime by anyone?I mean, is not worth it if you don't take advantage of that and go for the glory.Everything is on vain, just the pleasure of showing up?This team doesn't have a future, it is just a mediocre one, get use it.Glory times are past, class players are gone... what is left?Just a name chasing the shadows of the past.And all this sorrow atmosphere has only one man responsible - Arsene Wenger.He must go for the good of the club, he is just a stone dragging the team backward or keeping it still.Just go Arsena, don't embarras yourself and the beautiful times you lived here.

Although it proved to be a vain effort in the end, it was a display of spirit from the Liverpool fans.

However, most of their efforts were in vain.

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

Despite that, it may seem all their efforts have now gone in vain, as there is some major news come in relating to his future, which will be liked by the fans of the two English giants.

But it is my hope that you will find something herein that restores hope, that challenges your feelings of impotence, that reminds you why your efforts are far from being in vain.

Not than any of us need validation, but parents can take comfort in the fact that their efforts are not in vain.

If you fail to keep the consistency, your whole effort of weeks will go in vain.

When we see a parent wearing their babe in a Boba we know that all of our efforts have not been in vain.

Continuing, the statement said, «It is most unfortunate that instead of showing some remorsefulness for the harm done to the nation by his party, and giving genuine support for President Buhari's efforts to salvage and revamp the national economy, Mr. Metuh persists in a vain attempt to remain relevant on the national stage by unjustly denigrating the President who continues to strive with all his might to alleviate and reverse the harm done to the nation by PDP misrule and corruption.

The impression a dispassionate observer would have from the failure of security and law enforcement during the Bayelsa election (which was conducted in Nigeria's smallest state with the lowest number of registered voters) would be that the federal government permitted or condoned the strong - arm tactics of the ruling party's candidate in his ultimately vain effort to secure that state's rulership by force.

It is most unfortunate that instead of showing some remorsefulness for the harm done to the nation by his party, and giving genuine support for President Buhari's efforts to salvage and revamp the national economy, Mr. Metuh persists in a vain attempt to remain relevant on the national stage by unjustly denigrating the President who continues to strive with all his might to alleviate and reverse the harm done to the nation by PDP misrule and corruption.

I majored in history as an undergraduate — at Pomona College in Claremont, California, class of 1963 — then bailed on graduate school and became an elementary school teacher in a vain effort to calm a boyfriend's jealousy.

Nelson Michael of the U.S. Military HIV Research Program, which helped run the trial, is more optimistic: «We've shown that this 26 - year global effort has not been in vain.»

hello friends, my name is maria burgos i want to testify on how i was cured of my diabetes by herbal doctor chima okereke, i have suffered from diabetes for years and have been to different hospitals for cure but all effort was in vain.

Stay away from aerated drinks, packaged juices and sodas as they contain lots of sugars and they will put all your efforts in vain.

I even have a lovely lady working with me to keep this blog alive and kicking, so I am happy I am reaping the fruits of my labour, and all my efforts have not been in vain.

What's more, they've tried all kinds of possible ways to bring me a date, but all their efforts were in vain, cos I got no chemistry on these guys I met, so I am not willing to fall in love with them.

Just take out the comedy, toss in a ton of angst and talent (that's already there, actually), and pepper the audience with Stahl's vain efforts to kick when not zooming in close (courtesy of Robert D. Yeoman's cinematography) on Stahl's vein shots.

However, their efforts eventually prove to be in vain, leading to the evacuation of the US and South Vietnamese forces in the Fall of Saigon.

In a slightly misguided effort to present a more unified story, however, Jackson has incorporated a grand skirmish only related in a supplementary work (The Silmarillion), as well as one too many scenes that express the importance of an event in vain.

He shared info on his next directorial effort (starting at the end of 2017)-- an investigation movie that's «in the vain of «Spotlight».»

Much of that work may be in vain if Common Core's supporters can't convince the public that the standards weren't a conspiracy by a few nefarious powerbrokers, but rather a sincere — and bipartisan — effort to raise expectations for American students.

Without tools to measure success and investments in leadership at the top of school systems and at the front of classrooms, the other efforts made by this Commission, and future committees, will be made in vain.

«Efforts to improve preschool teacher qualifications will largely be in vain until the problem of inadequate compensation and lack of parity with kindergarten and the primary grades is addressed,» Dr. Barnett said.

More than one expert has also informed us that much of our effort in K - 12 to prepare students for college may be in vain if the cost of college continues to climb beyond the present $ 10K to $ 50K per year.

So perhaps rather than once again going down the Rabbit Hole of excess pretense in vain... perhaps AM's minders would be better focusing their efforts into bringing what AM really should stand for [Gentlemen's Grand Tourers] into the 21st century... rather than foisting rebodied 20the century technology upon its customer base.

Many of the technologies used in XO - 3 will find its way into the XO - 4 device, which means all the effort put into Xo - 3 venture hasn't been in vain.

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.

Copying assignments and essays from the internet, while doing this they forget that their professors are one step ahead of them, and they can trace the plagiarism part in the work and might raise an issue and their efforts might go in vain.

The most dramatic single moment of this long - playing dramatic event was last January when Amazon made a brief, and vain, effort to stop the whole agency movement in its tracks by pulling the buy buttons for Macmillan, apparently because they were the first publisher to officially notify Amazon of the forthcoming change.

Sometimes, it takes a period of trial and error to figure out exactly what is going on to make all your best efforts seem to be in vain.

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 with customers losing respect for the company and its products, it may mean losing a real potential customer in the long term, all in the name of an ultimately vain effort to go after people who may never have wanted to buy the product in the first place.