Sentences with phrase «vain effort»

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

I think it's a vain effort, and focuses on the wrong segments, but nonetheless there is considerable uncertainty which always casts suspicions into the shadows.

To have saved the US Steel industry we would have had to force US companies to invest in the new furnaces and the US steel workers to cut their wages in a vain effort to gain advantages of scale and compete on price.

I can see how someone who fears death and clings to religion in a vain effort to subvert that inevitability would be terrified of the truth.

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

I'm continuing my vain effort to mainstream the wisdom of postmodern conservatism (on happiness, for the moment) here....

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

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

They began to remember those stories that on Good Friday had seemed merely the vain efforts of some dreamy - headed idealist.

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

Mayor Bill de Blasio, who raised money in a vain effort to win Democratic control of the Senate in 2014, added a skeptical note when asked about the reunification plan.

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.

I suffered through eating disorders, all in a vain effort to fit in and to be accepted.

We often will turn to stimulants like sugar and coffee in a vain effort to jump - start our mind.

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.

Against these blows he is almost defenseless, compulsively lying in a vain effort to escape the torture.

Quinto commendably maintains his valiant, but vain effort to fill Leonard Nimoy's considerable shadow.

And when the actor does launch into full - on «Jack» mode — as when he trashes their motel room in a vain effort to rouse Meadows» anger — Ashby refuses to allow Nicholson's persona to subsume the character.

He's followed by more futuristic, «data - driven» cars, and before you know it McQueen's contemporaries have all retired and he, in a vain effort to keep pace, has crashed himself almost beyond repair.

Rather than spending huge amounts in a vain effort to beat the market, they take what the market has to offer â $» but they make sure they do so as cheaply as possible.

Or maybe it was on a rocky dirt road, when, in a vain effort to ward off altitude sickness, I chewed cheekfuls of coca leaves.

Here, the objects shift between artwork made by Keogh, props used by the performer and ambiguous technologies made by the astronaut in a vain effort to patch up the malfunctioning ship.

It is as if many of these sculptures presented by Bruno were metonymies of the garden's own paradox, meaning, we observe the vain efforts to prescribe geometry to the materiality of these pieces.

Exhibited at: Life of Imitation — Singapore Pavilion, 53rd Venice Biennale, 2009 Vain Efforts — Gallery 4A, Sydney 2009 mononoaware — MK Galerie, Berlin & Rotterdam 2008/09

Thank you yoey for another example of the desperate lies that are being told about The Donald in a vain effort to slow his roll to the White House.

My wish is that environmentalists, nuclear and renewable energy proponents stop crapping on each other's technology in a vain effort to promote their own.

In a vain effort to get into the spirit of the games, I spent a happy half hour making my own Olympic Torch with newspaper and coloured wrapping paper.