Sentences with phrase «vain once»

Let it not be in vain once more, please.

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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.

Once we begin to understand how the gospel creates peace, mocks our vain claims to self - importance, and teaches us to live as agents of joy and delight in the world, how will these truths begin to create unity among the bickering factions of Christianity?

Christianity teaches that this particular individual, and so every individual, whatever in other respects this individual may be, man, woman, serving - maid, minister of state, merchant, barber, student, etc. — this individual exists before God — this individual who perhaps would be vain for having once in his life talked with the King, this man who is not a little proud of living on intimate terms with that person or the other, this man exists before God, can talk with God any moment he will, sure to be heard by Him; in short, this man is invited to live on the most intimate terms with God!

But if our only hope that a sustainable sexual morality will once again become widely accepted in Western society is instinct, we hope in vain.

Those who are looking for the insidious presence of Karl Marx as normative for the «second act» will look in vain; he is not cited even once.

Confidence in the emergence of a new world culture to perform the function of supplying Protestants with the same kind of unity which they once derived from Western European culture is a vain and illusory hope.

Even the language that the Christian once employed in speaking of Christ has become archaic and empty, and we could search in vain for a traditional Christian language and symbolism in contemporary art and thinking.

One critic once said that «It is in vain to talk to him that means not to understand.»

I remember once commenting that it is in vain to talk sense to someone who does not want to understand.

This is our plight, a following condemned to perpetual cursing amid blessing, deafness amid listening, dumbness amid talking — all at once in vain.

Now Canadian research vessels sweep the seas in vain, finding not a single school of cod in what was once the world's richest fishery.

Once those are balanced and replenished, it solves the majority of health issues people attempt in vain to correct by other means.

Speaking of musicals: Into the Woods vet Magnussen once again nearly steals the whole show, infusing another vain himbo with just enough humanity to make him lovable instead of loathsome.

I believe there was only one use of the «d» word and the name of «Christ» was also used in vain — once — by a character from whom you would expect such words, «Darwin's Bulldog» as he would come to be called, Thomas Huxley.

That Oscar nominee Rinko Kikuchi, a third minor return from the original, is given short shrift, suggests that most of the characters exist merely as vain stereotypes given simplistic narrative focus that evaporates once the action comes into full focus.

It seems that it was once the opulent home of a fabulously wealthy, but vain and spoiled Prince (Dan Stevens, «A Walk Among the Tombstones») who was cursed with a beastly appearance because of those last two attributes.

Precision cutting and flowing camera movement would come to define the action film, blowing away the tension - based American system with a surfeit of bullets, preferably fired by a man clinching a match in his teeth, firing two handguns at once it a vain attempt at exorcising his existential pain.

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.

Ten years ago at MIRA we tried in vain to get close to the 3.95 sec 0 - 60mph run Aston's engineers claimed to have seen, once.

After attempting in vain to remove the coffee stains from your once - virgin pages, you'd type the thing up afresh and start all over again.

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.

Whenever I run a game of Dungeons and Dragons I spend hours searching through the depths of Spotify trying, sometimes in vain to find the right music to fit one of the many paths my players will take during our next session An unknown source once said «Music gives a soul to the universe, wings...

Worth playing once just to see Knuckles and Sonic try in vain to walk through a loop - de-loop, only to saunter backwards because their huge bodies don't have momentum

Once you are in driving lessons, I can assure you that the learning you will have will not be in vain.

I'm not vain but I have a terrible habit of applying lipstick while walking and not checking it once I get in the car!