Sentences with phrase «on vain attempts»

«The donkey goes on to the ice until it breaks» — German proverb [image credit: evwind.es] Debatable claim in the headline, but the German «energy transition» has certainly hurt electricity consumers as prices have shot up in the last decade, with fortunes being wasted on vain attempts to tweak the climate system.

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Concurrent with this orgy of public debt, the State encourages massive expansion of private credit via fractional lending, low bank reserves, and other forms of leverage, in a vain attempt to stimulate demand in an economy burdened with overcapacity, declining employment, marginal return on capital and saturated markets.

In the early 19th Century, Luddites destroyed mechanized looms in a vain attempt to forestall the effect of the industrial revolution on employment patterns in the textile industry.

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.

Found this, which corresponds to my understanding based on my reading of several histories of that time period, namely that we more or less just ignored it in a somewhat vain attempt to stay out of WWII.

It is unwanted and unheard in its native land so comes on here in a vain attempt to stroke its sorry ego.

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.

Instead, his head goes down, the wind pounds him like a wave crashing on a bodysurfer, and he flails his arms in a vain attempt to regain balance.

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.

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.

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.

She and her colleagues then exposed the stocking to caged mosquitoes, allowing them to land on it and poke it with their proboscises in a vain attempt to feed.

One would hope for more than about 40 - minutes of featurettes in a 2 - Disc Collector's Edition, one fears a double - dip on the horizon, or is it all about Blu - ray now, with us plebeians left to jealously clutch our outdated SD players in a vain attempt to save a few dollars?

Which is to say... do a bit of research on the realities of EV's before going off half cocked in the vain attempt to prove EV's to be anything other than what they are.

bring the new Shelby Mustang to the party [to reach price point parity... at least US prices] and watch the M2 / M3 / M4 shrink into the distance seeing only the Shelby's tail lights in the vain attempt to keep up... on the strip or road course.

I guess it's a vain attempt to convince myself the grass is greener on the other side of the fence and I'm worthy in the eyes of my traditional published peers who raise their brow over my «vanity.»

A few people according to the suggestions of specialists attempted to force - shutdown the application through settings and then, turning them back on, yet that technique also went vain.

The DRM is just a vain attempt of the established and archaic content companies to protect their old and endangered business models, but the good news is that, thanks to the quick evolution of digital technologies, something new is appearing on the horizon.

Even people who start out with a well - balanced mix of assets sometimes spoil it by shifting their savings into gimmicky investments or moving from one investment to another in a vain attempt to capitalize on market sectors they hope will surge to outsize gains.

I shudder to think how much cash will be spent, if they're given half a chance, on more capex and acquisitions in a vain attempt to become a US player...

Frankly, I think Microsoft released some really nice products in the past year (windows phone is awesome, no doubt windows 8 is nice on tablet, no development IDE comes even close to visual studio), but I think their attempts to claim marketshare in pc gaming content delivery are in vain.

And like that frozen image I saw many years ago, humans will yet climb onto the backs of all remaining life on earth, killing it all the faster in a vain attempt at survival, and unwilling to do the only thing that would actually save themselves and everything else.

If «world grounds itself on earth, and earth juts through world», then the climate crisis is the jutting through, and geoengineering is a last attempt to deny it, a vain attempt to take control of destiny rather than enter a free relation with technology.

Spending billions of dollars on CO2 controls in a vain attempt to stop these events from occurring reduces the wealth of societies, and so our capacity to address these and other real world problems.»

On the one - year anniversary of September 11, the team met on the Capitol roof at midnight «in a vain attempt to meet the demand for flags that flew on September 11» and raised and lowered 8,000 flags over the next 21 hourOn the one - year anniversary of September 11, the team met on the Capitol roof at midnight «in a vain attempt to meet the demand for flags that flew on September 11» and raised and lowered 8,000 flags over the next 21 houron the Capitol roof at midnight «in a vain attempt to meet the demand for flags that flew on September 11» and raised and lowered 8,000 flags over the next 21 houron September 11» and raised and lowered 8,000 flags over the next 21 hours.

It is not surprising that most men that struggle with sexual addiction have histories of countless vain attempts to prove that they can stop and / or control their sexual behaviors on their own.

David, I hear you on the competition bureau stifling the truth in their vain attempts to win some sort of victory and justify their existence.