Sentences with phrase «were for naught because»

Well, as it turned out all my fears, which the night before the test resulted in me tossing and turning prior to sleep and having visions and thoughts of never, ever getting a driver's license, were for naught because old Bob though limited to one eye, passed the test with pretty much the same score he received in 1963.

We believe that the economic studies are for naught because the value of the graphite companies comes not from asset size or production, but from being able to sell all the graphite.

But Langdon's research shows that their efforts could be for naught because ocean acidification could eat away at the building blocks those corals will need to flourish (or at least survive).

Of course, getting our numbers written on our arms and legs ended up being all for naught because having to stand outside in the rain for two hours basically washed the numbers right off.

And it was all for naught because she started potty training right around that time and stopped wearing dresses to daycare because it was harder to deal with them while trying to get on the toilet.

First time feature director Can Evrenol has a firm handle on the tone and style, and the satanic dungeon is disturbingly rich and detailed, but it's all for naught because Baskin is gore for the sake of gore and nothing more.

Unfortunately, those long and complex negotiations (memorialized in a two - page, single - spaced memorandum of understanding) turned out to be for naught because the contract protected custodians» right to limit their cleaning responsibilities.

Furthermore, that steep price could be all for naught because the proposed regulations promise little actual impact on possible temperature changes.

Not exact matches

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I'd like the book because I've gone through every snack idea by now and now that the kids are older, they tend to want to eat junkfood (sigh, all my teaching for almost naught) so I'm hoping that some tasty (yet healthful) snacks will distract them from that.

But that may be for naught, argued Robert Josman, who said he believed the rat problem stemmed from the city not putting out rat poison because of the recent stream of red - tailed hawk deaths attributed to the chemicals.

Maybe Disney was busy trying to convince director Tim Burton to return, or perhaps they thought the six - year respite would help moviegoers forget just how bad the first film was, but it was all for naught, because the Burton-less «Alice Through the Looking Glass» is just as awful as its predecessor, if not more so.

Unfortunately, all the fuss was for naught, because «Margaret» is every bit the mess that its tortourous post-production saga suggests.

It's too bad, too, because «Cosmopolis» surrounds Pattinson with people like Juliette Binoche, Samantha Morton and Paul Giamatti, all of whom attempt brave, inspired work that's ultimately all for naught, since Pattinson's like a giant pillow suffocating everyone and everything he comes into contact with.

All the commotion surrounding Hollywood's dueling Snow White movies seems to have been all for naught, because the two films couldn't be more different.

This may go nowhere, and all this worry will be for naught... or, Amazon.com could win the suit, and I'll just have to sell my book from my website and independent booksellers only... because I doubt I can afford such a cut of the sales if I want to make any sort of profit, even if only to break even.

This may be down to luck, or simply because the whole sector got hammered (meaning your great stock analysis was all for naught).

And I think they are fair questions — because, while getting animals out of the shelter is a good thing, if the animals are going into crappy situations, then it sort of makes it all for naught.

And even if they corrected their methods; which they can't do, because it would take all the money on the planet to buy enough thermometers; it is all for naught, since there is no physical cause and effect connection between a local surface or near surface Temperature measurement, and the energy flows that are occurring at that location at that time; so mean global temperature tells us nothing about whether the earth is gaining or losing total energy.

The worry, it turns out, was for naught, because the Cisco Connect software displays that information on your computer and allows you to change them.