Sentences with phrase «trying in vain»

Instead of trying in vain to resolve specific topics, Gal tends to focus on discovering this stuck pattern and how to change it.

A disaster can destroy everything that you own in a matter of minutes, which can leave you behind trying in vain to pick up the pieces if you don't have Midtown renters insurance in place.

Of Arms and the Law linked out this morning to this article from Human Events (apparently President Reagan's favorite newspaper) about a New Orleans bar owner who has been trying in vain for a year and a half to get back five guns that were taken from her by U.S. Marshals as she left New Orleans in the wake of Hurricane Katrina in 2005.

While trying in vain to find a reference to the Glieck story in the British press, other than the Guardian, I came across this: http://www.oxford-amnesty-lectures.org/index.php?p=Gleick Dr Glieck is due to lecture in Oxford on April 24th.

Thus the self - important «Chief» hydrologist begins another in a series of diatribes trying in vain to defend whacko science.

I've been trying in vain to have the least understanding of what Joe has been saying so often and so long.

I had been trying in vain to get on, which left me in my usual confused state, so the information in the Tele averted another anxiety attack.

«I wandered though films that caught my attention, trying in vain to link them together, always returning to «The Fall and Rise of Barwick Maypole», a film shot in May 1978.».

As you progress, you'll face increasingly tough challenges, from a few puny humans trying in vain to defend their settlements, to huge battleships and clashes with other gigantic kaiju.

His boss keeps trying in vain to lure Drake back to slightly shadier work, but it's not until his long - lost brother Sam (Troy Baker) steps back into the picture, that Drake finds himself with no choice but to set off on another dangerous mission.

One dog at a recent competition simply walked the side of the pool, trying in vain to get the toy out of the water without getting wet.

SORRENTO - Cat Protection Society volunteers usually are greeted by the heartbreaking meows of friendless cats left abandoned.But early Thursday the cat lovers were greeted with squeals of pain.A baby pot - bellied pig suffering from two broken hind legs had been dropped off at the society's gate, along with two kitty companions.The 38 - pounder, dubbed Rosie, was trying in vain to crawl to the volunteers, who quickly showed they are just as protective of porky pets.The injured pig was doctored up at the Mount Dora Veterinary Hospital.

This all adds up to greater handling performance and better stopping power, when trying in vain to catch the ever elusive Camaro Z28.

He is still with keeping house (or shack as the case may be) with the lovely Marie (Franka Potente), hiding out on a beach in India, and trying in vain to remember who he is and why so many people want to kill him.

Gomis also throws in some nicely judged comic moments, most of them involving a compassionate but frequently drunk friend / suitor (Papi Mpaka) who spends much of the movie trying in vain to fix Félicité's broken refrigerator.

«Director Marc Forster — heavily - criticized on Quantum of Solace because people saw him as an arthouse filmmaker trying in vain to make an action movie — continues his arthouse credentials here.»

But look at it this way: if you do rotator - cuff exercises, a few years down the road you will still be able to do heavy chest, back, shoulder and arm work, whereas those who did not strengthen their inner shoulders will be using pansy - ass weights trying in vain to save whatever muscle they already built.

It's in a convenient location for a spot of supper beforehand (we chose Maison Libanaise on the escalator, trying in vain not to gorge ourselves for fear of sinking!)

For the first year after my split, I spoke with her and took her advice to heart, studying archetypes and trying in vain to be some near - enlightened version of myself.

A home in the upscale Westchester town of Mamaroneck became a scene of carnage Saturday, with cops shooting a knife - wielding 28 - year - old woman — and trying in vain to save the...

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.

Is it really so bad to celebrate Christmas and channel the «spirit» of Santa instead of trying in vain to wrongly assure a kid that Santa is real after all?

I keep watching and watching, trying in vain to find out what REALLY happened.

The New Day are a gaggle of goofs trying in vain to espouse the power of positivity.

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.

id is one of the last sparks of a dying flame trying in vain to re-ignite.

In the quest to reinvent marketing, the nerds have tried in vain to become leaders.

A board member and spokesman for the Quebec civil lawyers» and notaries» union — Les avocats et notaires de l'État québécois, or LANEQ — he tried in vain in May to find members who were willing to share their first - hand experiences on the picket lines during their historic four - month general strike, the longest in Canadian public service history.

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).

Others might gape and wonder, and try in vain to analyze how he did it... to Capa [it was] as easy as breathing.»

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.

The way of AA is in storytelling to others their past dealings with the «sauce» of life's very cunning juices that one tries in vain to be an overcomer of such a drug whose only comfort is an ever decaying sense of socal immorality and individualized unrighteousness.

From this paradox traditional theism tried in vain to free itself.

the Christian whose understanding of the incarnation is so circumscribed will either embrace the one (Jerusalem) and hate the other (Athens) or try in vain to unite what can only remain strange (and strained) bedfellows...

Plotting denominational mission strategies has become more difficult, in part because mainline mission executives first tried to ignore this paradigm shift, then tried in vain to shape it.

Job accuses God of injustice and tries in vain to penetrate to Him through the divine remoteness.

religion tries in vain to deal with the product (the sin) but not with the (factory) the sinner.

Those that try in vain to include these have to disregard the criteria set to canonize the Bible.

Our interest obviously piqued, we tried in vain to press her for information about the circus.

I also thought Sanchez was our best player 3 years straight and who tried in vain to galvanise the rest of the players into winning more trophies.

«They're so experienced,» said Hawkeye coach Tom Davis, after his team tried in vain to disrupt Duke with full - court pressure.

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.

Arsenal tried in vain to sign Liverpool star player Luis Suarez and in the end could only sign one main playmaker in Ozil to amplify attack.

I tried in vain to get a bulkhead seat.

In addition to frustration and exhaustion, you may experience feelings of inadequacy and guilt as you try in vain to soothe your fussy baby.

In 1979, after Smith had tried in vain to reach an agreement with Mugabe, the British agreed to monitor the changeover to black majority rule and the UN lifted sanctions.

Democrats had tried in vain to attach the bill to an measure related to organ donation on Tuesday.

Sen. Carl Kruger, the committee chairman, tries in vain to get Parker to calm down and then shouts: «You're out of order... Why don't you step outside?»

tried in vain to block the woman's orange - and - black Paladino sign with red - white - and - blue Lazio signs.

The rescue team, including policemen, officials of Department of State Security Services (DSS), Nigerian Security and Civil Defence Corps, Federal Road Safety Corps and state Fire Brigade Service tried in vain to identify the woman.