Sentences with phrase «vain for»

How often do you search in vain for the perfect upholstered furniture with a specific fabric color and pattern, and just wished you could create your own?

«This is evidence that real estate brokers do not seek in vain for owners who try, initially, to sell their property themselves,» says the board.

Look at the way in which they carve up our world — and you'll look in vain for a category or a main topic - head, let alone a section, for law or for its fuzzy cousin, justice.

However, one seeks in vain for a consistent definition of the doctrine of laches in the authorities and it has been suggested (see Meagher, Gummow and Lehane's Equity: Doctrines and Remedies, 4th ed, paras 36 — 50) that the term is used to mean (at least) three things: - to denote «mere» delay; - to denote the delay from which the claimant's acquiescence in the state of affairs later complained of can be inferred; and - to denote delay together with some change of position of or prejudice to the defendant and / or a third party which renders it inequitable to allow the remedy.

Its blog is a bit pedestrian, but these are early days, and you'll hunt in vain for anything similar in Canada.

The government has been promising a review of the residence and domicile regime for many years, and practitioners have grown accustomed to waiting in vain for the publication of concrete proposals.

One searches in vain for exhaustive definitions in the jurisprudence.

One searches text books and websites in vain for express written procedural powers: for an SRA caseworker to investigate an initial complaint; to require a solicitor to respond to a complaint; to impose time limits for a response; to refer the response to the complainant; to ask the solicitor written questions; to refer the initial papers to an adjudication panel; to arrange for an adjudication panel to convene; or even to regulate the meetings of adjudication panels.

The Law Society took the opportunity to flag up the implications of an oversupply of 3,000 places on the legal practice course — leaving thousands of students searching in vain for training contracts.

One also looked in vain for any such power elsewhere in either in the rules or in the Warsaw Convention itself.

When preparing for a consultation with a lawyer recently, I searched in vain for any information about him on the internet.

The dystopian looks in vain for promises of transformation of access to justice and legal services that could justify such a risk but there can be no such promise.

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.

Many times legal consumers contact the attorney they're interested in only to wait in vain for a callback or a return email.

But on the EPA global change program website we look in vain for publications, or even current project descriptions, since 2002 that would document the progress and results of this research agenda.

On policy after policy, Obama began with grand, magnanimous concessions (see: offshore drilling) and waited in vain for reciprocation.

I read through it, searching in vain for any reference to a UK government investigation.

Organizations such as Greenpeace have been searching in vain for new tactics to raise awareness among a public that does not want to know.

These omissions included: (a) the lack of recognition that dependence on natural gas as a bridge fuel for reducing the US carbon footprint raises several ethical questions, a matter reviewed here in detail, (b) acknowledgment of the US special responsibility for climate change for its unwillingness to take action on climate change for over 20 years since it ratified the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change in 1992, see, The World Waits In Vain For US Ethical Climate Change Leadership As the World Warms, and, (c) failing to communicate the extreme urgency of quickly and significantly reducing ghg emissions in the next few years to give the world any hope of avoiding dangerous climate change, see, On the Extraordinary Urgency of Nations Responding To Climate Change on the Basis of Equity.

With no talk of «climate emergencies» in the report, we look in vain for any clear rationale for the possible deployment of albedo modification.

I am sure I am not the only one who has downloaded S&B in the last couple of days and read it carefully, searching in vain for the errors that were so awful that the editor had to resign.

The team arrived to find a healthy regrowth forest and for days trekked backwards and forwards in frustration, searching in vain for the foundations of the smelter and the town of Anyox.

As President Obama continues to search in vain for policies to create jobs, the prospects for a robust economic recovery remain bleak.

I've searched in vain for Phil Jones Op ed on integrity.

The Climate Desk, a collaborative journalism project of Mother Jones and several other publications, has produced a video searching in vain for a Republican presidential candidate willing to make any science - based statements on climate.

I looked equally in vain for the stains, supposedly the materials of actual western landscapes, that Calame claims to incorporate.

While Robert Smithson searched in vain for backgrounds to the ancient Mayan culture during his travels which parallel the Mirror Displacements and reaches the conclusion that «Yucatan is elsewhere», Vanessa Safavi's installation concludes that «Real Life is Elsewhere».

I looked in vain for the new cubism (born in Paris a century ago) or the new Andy Warhol, Jasper Johns or Robert Rauschenberg (all active in New York in 1962).

We search in vain for the architect / collector who will lift the veil and enable us to make this world ours.

Colin Wilson's The Outsider introduced me to the occult and I soon became entrenched in Ouspensky and Gurdjieff, I also searched in vain for an unabridged version of Nijinsky's diary.

Search in vain for a Merida token.

These wonderful animals had been waiting in vain for a home in California, but once they landed in Seattle, their long wait was nearly over.

Funding University's student loans will likely be incredibly popular since many parents and students search in vain for student loans without co-signers.

I was a crab that luckily managed to crawl out of the traditional publishing bucket by stumbling on to self - publishing and self - promoting (after reading Dan Poynter's Self - Publishing Manual in 1980), but what about all the rest of those hapless crustaceans down there, flailing away — searching in vain for decades for a publisher's take - it - or - leave - it contract?

It's vain for one author to disparage another simply because one doesn't have a book deal, or because they decide to self - publish.

He groped in vain for a jug of water in the dim light.

After waiting in vain for the missing volumes to be added - B&N said it was the responsibility of a vendor - I requested a refund, and Barnes and Noble gave me one without any argument.

Every time the Fire 8 updates, I have been waiting in vain for the addition of boldface fonts.

My 6» 1 ″ frame fit well in the space provided, but soon into my first drive, I was looking in vain for a height adjustment for the front of the seat cushion, and there was none.

It's a convenient feature, but a couple of unwanted trunk openings had us searching in vain for a way to defeat that feature.

On those occasions when we operated the transmission manually, we found ourselves grasping in vain for paddle shifters, which are not included.

One searches in vain for hard plastic.

I yearned in vain for a button to uncork more decibels.

The various solicitors in the cause, some two or three of whom have inherited it from their fathers - might look in vain for truth at the bottom of it between the registrar's red table and the silk gowns, with bills, cross-bills, answers, rejoinders, injunctions, affidavits, issues, references to masters, masters» reports, mountains of costly nonsense, piled before them.

One looks in vain for an exploration of the arguments in any of the essays in the volume.

Joan Cusack, as a butch ex-Special-Ops holidaymaker with a chatterbox partner (Wanda Sykes), gets no lines — she cut her own tongue out to avoid being tortured — but we wait in vain for a non-verbal punchline, either.

One hopes in vain for Sutherland, who's turned in some madly fey performances in his time, to contribute some subversively ironic distance from the ongoing embarrassments of Lady Ice, but he manfully pretends to be titillated by O'Neill's nonexistent challenges and lopes gracelessly through his assigned paces as a Columbo of the insurance circuit.

Cancer - stricken television producer Earl Partridge (Jason Robards) is on his deathbed, being tended to by his nurse, Phil Parma (Philip Seymour Hoffman), as his much younger trophy wife, Linda (Julianne Moore) searches in vain for a way to cope.

When Jake Lloyd and later Hayden Christensen portrayed young Anakin Skywalker, one searched in vain for convincing signs that somewhere in the character, as they played him, nestled the seed of evil that would bloom into Darth Vader.

In the late 18th century, in a far - flung corner of what seems to be Paraguay, the title character, an officer of the Spanish crown (Daniel Giménez Cacho) born in the Americas, waits in vain for a transfer to a more prestigious location.