Sentences with phrase «waited in vain»

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

But until those issues are placed effectively on the agenda - for - action by the population of that functional world - village we will wait in vain for the first effective steps toward a modest degree of world government.

Cq, The Catholics to whom you refer as waiting for a new, more «liberal» Church are waiting in vain.

In the first episode of Season 3, «The Cabin Show,» we witness multiple flashbacks to a young Michael Bluth sitting on the stoop of his home, waiting to be taken on a camping trip by his father, George Sr. — waiting in vain, as it turns out.

What about Walcot giving us the fans a break after years of waiting in vain in anticipation of his accliamed potential

There are still tumbleweeds blowing around the Emirates stadium wait in vain for Arsene Wenger to use the club's mountain of cash and bring in a player or two to help us achieve the very difficult task of competing with our big spending rivals for the Premier League title.

While volunteers are signing up at a steady pace, some of the volunteers who signed up for the platform are waiting in vain for someone to connect them with the campaign.

Princeton University molecular biologist Rebecca Burdine, who also worries that the NIH cuts are delaying treatments for her child with a rare neurological disease called Angelman syndrome, said that «many» of her peers are «circling the drain» waiting in vain to receive NIH funding.

Worried controllers spent a month sending signals to the spacecraft and waiting in vain for a response.

However as it is free to use, chances are, there will be several profile that will either be unreal or will not be active as most of it users are always offline and you may end up waiting in vain for a quick reply from other herpes singles you send messages to.

Don't spend another minute waiting in vain for your missing social life to knock on your door.

If you're someone who values innovation and evolution in videogames — who found yourself waiting in vain for Nintendo to use the Wii's motion - control scheme to push the boundaries of the medium forward — then the initial launch of the Wii U feels like a gimmicky missed chance.

Overall the season felt like a build up for something big, but you will be waiting in vain.

Day's the runt, Cube is the bully, and for a punishing 91 minutes of rank idiocy we wait in vain for something funny to happen.

Get Out, on the other hand, reveals its dirty little secret a bit too broadly, and you wait in vain for the kind of larger, self - implicating comment that Peele usually serves up, masterfully.

Katie is an overachiever of the sympathetic kind as Charlie's desertion manifests itself in fear — that he'll return, that he won't, that his leaving is the truth of her worth — she finds difficult to manage; Bratt's Wade Handler lies in the dark every night, hearing his past life being lived across the street in bars and in clubs, waiting in vain for the rewards of giving up the drink to kick in.

Audiences will sit on the edge of their seats, waiting for some interesting revelations, unpredictable fight scenes, telling dialogue, unique camera angles, or anything to sustain the movie, but they will wait in vain, because there is none of that.

By the way, there are three daughters, though if you wait to find out why the screenwriters needed the middle daughter, played by Piper Perabo, you'll wait in vain.

And so it goes as Jimmy hustles for gigs, waits in vain for a cameo by Wilson Pickett, and, like the rest of the film, runs out of steam and purpose long before the final credits provide sweet relief.

We wait in vain for Arnie's classic rejoinder: «Consider this a divorce!»

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.

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.

But were we being too kind, pouring praise over the brash little car because we wanted so badly to believe we weren't waiting in vain?

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

plus I get to buy all of this for THAT price tag??? I think I am waiting in vain all these months for this smartphone.

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For although I was expecting you, as the greater and older man, to break the silence, since I have waited so long in vain, I think charity now compels me to take the initiative.»

«We have a few moments to cross the finish line, the race will soon end and when we are able to endure, we are going to be crowned but if we don't exercise a little more patience, our long wait would be in vain», she added.

If you're waiting for science to concoct a magical elixir to extend life span, you may end up wasting the rest of your life in vain — for now.

But it's immediately clear from the outset that Zama's wait will be in vain, and that as he wearily seeks a series of favors — from a local minister or a teasing noblewoman (Lola Dueñas, a regular of Pedro Almodóvar, one of the film's co-producers)-- we will observe the stagnation and rot of the colonialist experiment firsthand.

I saw Another Year in July, but had to wait until November for Winter's Bone (I queued twice in vain in Sundance).

Whereas previously I would have had to wait, probably in vain, for books I heard about on the radio to be turned into braille or produced as talking books, now I can buy and read books of all sorts when I want to read them and on the same terms as anyone else.

We were hoping that a better version of this cam - quality video might have gotten its way to the internets by now, but it would seem that our waiting has been in vain.

Thus the body of Jane Günther, who had herself frozen upon her death in 2009, is still waiting (thus far in vain) for the Swedish state to comply with her last wishes.

You've already been the victim of property damage, but the claims resolution process could make you feel like a victim all over again as you wait for justice and fair treatment — sometimes in vain.

Unfortunately, for Sprint subscribers that are still waiting for the carrier to offer the device, the wait may have been in vain.

Don't wait until later, don't say it's all in vain.