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"And to feel like their work isn't in vain, that their lives aren't in vain."
In "Don't Let My Classmates' Deaths Be in Vain," Christine Yared writes: We can't let innocent people's deaths be in vain.
" He continued, saying, "Otto did not die in vain.
We will not let our fallen brother die in vain.
I hope those poor little darlings didn't die in vain.
You wait for job openings but it's usually in vain.
Don't let her work be in vain: Watch the video.
Do you really want that to have been in vain?
Duignan said he hopes the whales' deaths aren't in vain.
We didn't want her little life to be in vain.
Yorkie is horrified, but her trip is not in vain.
Hussein demanded that his family's loss not be in vain.
"Cool Girl," by Tove Lo. "Rotting in Vain," by Korn.
Do you ever feel like you're demonstrating is in vain?
Mr. Sallom, 2100, has since waited in vain for help.
The hotel doorman tried in vain to get us one.
This will help ensure her living was not in vain.
You ask, in vain hope: Still, that'll be fun, right?
He tried, in vain, to stop the bleeding, he said.
The actions of the external forces are completely in vain.
Most important, Otto Warmbier will not have died in vain.
I've toiled all my life, in vain, to like myself.
"It feels like our efforts were in vain," she said.
Making sure the president's name is not spoken in vain.
Christians believe that none of this suffering was in vain.
Our kids' lives are never going to be in vain.
I took all efforts to get out, but in vain.
"I don't want [Sheridan's] death to be in vain," she said.
Your life and your beautiful mind, courage & freedom not in vain.
If I broke mine, had my own suffering been in vain?
Keisha searches in vain but eventually holds a funeral for Alice.
Melampy said the indictment proves Evie's death was not in vain.
But he shouldn't take EPA's name in vain while doing it.
Stirring -- in vain, still -- I decided it must need more flour.
Jacob's life was not and will not be in vain. pic.twitter.
Their bravery and experiences cannot be in vain," they wrote. "Dr.
I tried, in vain, to warn him many times this week.
Grissom, White, and Chaffee did not die in vain, Tribe said.
They were taken, and you can't let that happen in vain.
As the database grew, investigators hoped for a match, in vain.
"Their blood will not be shed in vain," the group said.
Rojo just reached in in vain, and they went down together.
Their combined efforts were in vain, for reasons beyond anyone's control.
They have to show that the impeachment was not in vain.
To make matters worse, the funds will likely be in vain.
He found himself searching in vain for familiar names and words.
One can only hope they are not waiting totally in vain.
The Indian government has tried in vain to stop the slide.
I hope that survivors have not shared their stories in vain.
Nishimura captures its plaintive expression of hot desire and soul-crushing disappointment in molten masses of red, orange, and yellow forms laced with shiny, drippy skeins of red paint in "Love in Vain V," and in the mostly blue-green "Love in Vain I" and the red, black, blue, and yellow "Love in Vain III," in swirling compositions of haunting beauty.
Hopefully it will be for the better and won't be in vain.
So, today, he says, oh, Otto Warmbier didn&apost die in vain.
However, the circus Wilder orchestrated on the street was ultimately in vain.
SundayI just started it off by taking the Lord's name in vain.
"I'm sorry," he added, fighting in vain to hold back the tears.
"Most important, Otto Warmbier will not have died in vain," Trump said.
Some schools have tried, mostly in vain, to prevent students from playing.
Legal challenges to the phrase on the currency have been in vain.
Such a shame to see so many angle grinders die in vain.
"Jay died young, but his life is not in vain," he says.
I told her that she couldn't let this moment happen in vain.
But the beloved sea turtle's death might not have been in vain.
"They're determined to make sure that the death was not in vain."
Yarosh's efforts to raise the money he needed were ultimately in vain.
His own hype man, Computer, tried in vain to calm him down.
Organizers then attempted in vain to seek permits in Vernon, New York.
The civil service looks in vain for clear instructions from its masters.
"The sacrifice of the martyrs will not go in vain," he said.
History will attest the soldier does not bear the sword in vain.
She tried his phone and waited in vain outside their new apartment.
She thought of their years together and looked in vain for signs.
I type that in jest, knowing that my keystrokes are in vain.
If that's the case, Trump could be doing Putin's bidding in vain.
The costs we have already borne will have been totally in vain.
A few people wandered the streets trying to hail taxis, in vain.
She waits in vain for Luke to come to her as promised.
If the challenge is in vain, the donation serves as a penalty.
But it might ensure that Jamal Khashoggi did not die in vain.
You chase it in vain for the rest of a wretched night.
The sacrifices of our brave security personnel shall not go in vain.
Lexicographers still struggle, largely in vain, to dispel this myth about their role.
Donald Trump's election victory means their efforts will no longer be in vain.
The medical corpsman who rushed up to the post also tried, in vain.
It is my goal to make sure it will never be in vain.
" "I really think that Otto is someone who did not die in vain.
If you've been searching in vain for motivation to exercise, stop right now.
Flight controllers sent more than 1,000 recovery commands to Opportunity, all in vain.
If I go ... everything I've done, everything I've suffered would be in vain.
In the end it's in vain and the piece concludes neutrally and separately.
He said he'd been trying in vain to resuscitate her and their children.
We are pleased to see that our efforts have not gone in vain.
He hungers in vain for "a running conversation" about books, religion, ideas, politics.
The company has been searching for a strategic investor, to-date in vain.
Looking out on the ocean, I searched in vain for a single boat.
Other US cities have tried to pass similar measures, too, but in vain.
Prominent Palestinian politician Mustafa Barghouti says her detention will not be in vain.
But Mr. McCartney's efforts were in vain: Mr. Tremosa ultimately opposed the bill.
These petitions were in vain; McCarrick became Washington's archbishop and then a cardinal.
" She added, "It gives me hope that our fight is not in vain.
But political scientist Robert Alexander claims our efforts were not entirely in vain.
Germany searched in vain for a Romanian general not loyal to the king.
" Another called it a shame for him "to die in vain like that.
The disputed god who is watching the whole world being destroyed in vain?
She was still trying in vain to find the rhythm of her shot.
If we do not, all of our efforts will have been in vain.
Countries close their borders in an attempt to contain the outbreak in vain.
I was feeling really deceived — all of my sacrifice had been in vain.
Ms. Lissitzky-Küppers tried in vain to reclaim her collection after the war.
Trump chided Girling, saying all the company's previous lobbying had been in vain.
The countless sacrifices made by our countrymen will not go in vain Inshallah.
Cancerfonden said it had tried in vain to get in touch with the company.
Are the efforts to bring digital deeper into the creative workflow all in vain?
Trump's rise has alarmed establishment Republicans who have tried in vain to stop him.
People I've spoken to in these queues have waited for hours, sometimes in vain.
Mattis thinks (in vain) that he can put pressure 'from a position of strength'.
To the families of the victims, your loved ones did not die in vain.
"I'm gonna let the world know my wife didn't die in vain," he said.
She wants to convince her son that his father's sacrifice as not in vain.
Um Fadhil, a woman in her 60s, continues to search, so far in vain.
Melissa McBride, who plays Carol, assures us that we have not waited in vain.
I've never heard someone sing "we are lost in vain" and sound so gleeful.
Join us in celebrating free knowledge and ensuring his efforts were not in vain.
Evie won't have died in vain though, because we are going to fix this.
The look in your eyes tells us your sacrifice has not been in vain.
We cannot let losing Shalon Irving, and nearly losing Serena Williams, be in vain.
"I search in vain for the guttering candle of Mozartean myth," Mr. Gutman wrote.
In fact, the dossier seems unverifiable, and efforts to do so are in vain.
She stopped drinking and worked, in vain, to repair her relationship with her mother.
Dunn's parents and the UK government have repeatedly appealed, in vain, for her return.
My soul aches thinking about Till's murder, but his death was not in vain.
I wondered if he thought now his son's sacrifice might have been in vain.
"We will not let the blood of Muslims go in vain," said one protester.
She knew something was wrong as she tried in vain to slow her pulse.
Mitterand to Thatcher, Volcker to Nixon—who have tried, in vain, to bend the
Know that your efforts are not in vain and a new beginning is here.
Miami has been negotiating in vain to reduce his $9.8 million salary cap hit.
Reuters: Some potential witnesses say they have reached out to the FBI in vain.
An utter embarrassment to the memory of all the finches that died in vain.
I saw people with Kaposi's sarcoma try in vain to hide lesions with makeup.
All this doesn't mean, however, that calling out the Goopshit has been in vain.
Her husband, the comedian Patton Oswalt, didn't want her work to be in vain.
I want you to know that not for a moment was it in vain.
They search, often in vain, for help from underfunded government agencies, and local charities.
We need to make sure that their lives and deaths were not in vain.
But she was made to wait "in vain" for more information, the lawsuit said.
They laughed about how Mr. McConnell's opponents had tried in vain to demonize him.
Presidents who send soldiers into battle cannot easily confess that it was in vain.
We are fighting this terrible epidemic hard - Nick will not have died in vain!
Or if they are going to live forever, then let it not be in vain?
I believe the president when he says that Otto Warmbier did not die in vain.
The Soviet authorities tried, largely in vain, to root out American books, music and clothes.
At least we know that neither Taylor Swift (nor her stunt double) suffered in vain.
It's not like he's a former champion trying in vain to script a perfect ending.
Fatah and Hamas have tried in vain to bridge their differences over the past decade.
However, sometimes the arduous trip from a village deep in the mountains was in vain.
What does she know of God, she who only ever uses His name in vain.
It uses Bob Marley's "Waiting in Vain" to make a point about being unbearably horny.
After MJ's interview, she tells Justin that all the work they've done is in vain.
"Thou shalt not take the Lord's name in vain," one of its promo shots says.
The win was in vain as France won the tie and advanced to the final.
"Look at it this way ..." Francine stammers, groping in vain for another morale-boosting bromide.
He tried in vain to convince the super to let him inside ... to no avail.
"I guess she wanted us to know that what we were doing wasn't in vain."
Believe in yourself and the Congress party, your hard work will not go in vain.
We should be pleased that the negotiations with the rogue nation were not in vain.
You will search the Congressional Record in vain for any word of concern from Leahy.
"They did not die in vain because of what is happening right now," Sheehan said.
Teigen explained that the hotel did warn the guests about the drill — alas, in vain.
How would you describe Baby in Vain for people who don't know who you are?
When he realized that his earnest efforts had been in vain, his cheery attitude disappeared.
After imploring residents in vain to stay put, he led them in an alternate response.
But that does not mean that time and money is spent on them in vain.
They are refusing to be silenced or to allow their peers to die in vain.
Yet for days we searched in vain for an ice floe just 1 meter thick.
We are left searching in vain for what we refuse to allow ourselves to see.
You wait, in vain, for a hero to appear and take her by the hand.
We would like to remind our Greek friends that these futile efforts are in vain.
His entreaty was in vain, the orchestra says: All five were killed in concentration camps.
As long as people have suffered from hangovers, they've searched in vain for a cure.
Republicans have struggled in vain for almost a decade to loosen much of Dodd-Frank.
"I'm not gonna let my daughter's death go in vain," he told CNN affiliate WSVN.
But now those countless teenage evenings spent uploading music to various band Myspace accounts and adding page after page of random people to get more 'fans' are now completely in vain—or at least more in vain than they were anyway—so what the hell.
"Otto did not die in vain," Trump said as he discussed North Korea's human rights record.
These efforts to prevent the measles virus from traveling to and within camps aren't in vain.
That's the body Waheire represented when he sought in vain to meet with Moi in 2011.
Those who had investigated the case for years in vain were ecstatic by the sudden breakthrough.
RH: What's really important here is to remember that these dog flights were not in vain.
"' Sanders, dramatically taking a bow while clutching his heart, said, "She took my name in vain.
" When they finally spoke, she said, "If I don't do something, these people died in vain.
Imagine the all-too-familiar feeling of surfing the web in vain, looking for a ticket.
The hope that Ms Sobchak would boost the liberal agenda has so far been in vain.
"Until these shortcomings are addressed, the losses of those talented, young sailors will be in vain."
After trying in vain to persuade his friends into a game of soccer, he'd wandered off.
"Benjamin, Monica, Anthony, and Ronald — we will not let their names die in vain," he said.
While his stint with the Baratheons ended bitterly, Davos' time with them wasn't spent in vain.
"It may be too late for Brandon, but don't let him die in vain," he writes.
People are dying in vain because this country isn't holding their end of the bargain up.
We owe it to our children not to allow those sacrifices to have been in vain.
You button-bash, hack and slash, but before long you're surrounded, swinging that axe in vain.
The biggest let down of Guerrilla is the realization that this hopefulness might be in vain.
Someone said, "Jesus!" and I asked them to please never use the word Jesus in vain.
Over 240 peer-reviewed scientific studies have searched in vain for a benefit to eating organic.
Not only are these sacrifices statistically overwhelmingly likely to be in vain, they're also completely disproportionate.
You put yourself through so much and I want you to know it wasn't in vain.
They try in vain to guess what he wants to hear and tell it to him.
A monster truck show, a boxing card and other attractions were brought in, mainly in vain.
Events like that remind Ms. Fiore that her brother-in-law's death was not in vain.
Moreover, and contrary to the claims of the day, many of those men died in vain.
The maniac continues brutalizing everyone in his path while onlookers try -- in vain -- to control him.
Their need to tell us they love us, love us, with all their love in vain . . .
"It didn't take us long to discover we had not acted in vain," Dr. Raines recalled.
But Ms. Babikian has pushed in vain for "a real campaign" — sustained, high-profile, on television.
One staff member searched in vain for the keys for an hour, the legal complaint said.
In vain did new American fortunes made in railroads, minerals and real estate campaign for invitations.
In fact one source says Goldenvoice tried in vain Thursday to reach Bey or her reps.
Arguably, the deaths of more than 2,400 American servicemen and women would have been in vain.
Prominent real estate developers, who have long wielded influence in Albany, appealed in vain to Gov.
The footage also showed the referee and others trying in vain to revive Mr. González Barrón.
Kurdish Regional Government (KRG) President Masoud Barzani said the vote for independence "won't be in vain".
You will search in vain for a baked potato or creamed spinach on David Shim's menu.
" His hero is embarrassed "by the words sacred, glorious and sacrifice and the expression, in vain.
Nothing justifies Mr. Khashoggi's terrible death, but at least he need not have died in vain.
Let's prove that our troops who never made it home from war didn't die in vain.
The shah and his wife hunted in vain for a missing videocassette to finish a movie.
"It increases your determination to make sure that that death was not in vain," Carson said.
She would steal them from her disabled husband, who would try in vain to hide them.
As long as people have suffered from hangovers, they&aposve searched in vain for a cure.
Three years ago, a private Russian expedition searched in vain for the wreck of the Jeannette.
He sat in the MVP office waiting in vain while Hispanic applicants got assignments, he said.
Mick Jones of the Clash wrote that band's biggest hit single, "Train in Vain," about her.
People on scene tried in vain to resuscitate her but it appears she died on impact.
I've deleted and re-downloaded the game countless times in vain attempts to break my addiction.
It will be up to the rest of us to ensure her death was not in vain.
"Pulse was a way for me to not let my brother's death be in vain," she said.
But she leaves her girls weekend in vain when she discovers that Lawrence has actually moved out.
Some mathematicians, after years of toiling in vain, had come to suspect the inequality was actually false.
But the refrain — "I don't want to live forever / but I don't want to live in vain"?
" "I have seen that out of tragedy, something really good can come, otherwise it's all in vain.
"To the Venezuelans there, don't give up: the blood that has been spilled was not in vain".
Or this cat chewing a lizard in half before the poor reptile tries to escape (in vain).
It bursts through the walls and pounces on Brenner as his agents fire their weapons in vain.
A visitor to its website would click in vain to find a detailed explanation of its aims.
Thor tries in vain to stop her, but instead ends up trapped on the planet of Sakaar.
The Hitomi X-ray astronomy satellite, which met its untimely end in March, didn't die in vain.
Norwich's 4-2 victory over Watford proved to be in vain, as Sunderland stayed 4 points ahead.
For my entire youth, I sought in vain to find South Asian role models I could emulate.
"If I give up on the mission now, that means those 26 died in vain," he said.
Please don't let the thousands of people who died from opioid overdoses last year be in vain.
Thousands more are still on their way, risking their lives on a perilous trip, probably in vain.
They tried in vain to revive at least two of the children, the Detroit Free Press reported.
Kash Doll couldn't get her music on major streaming services, but she wasn't making it in vain.
"If I can help save a life, then my daughter's death is not in vain," she said.
You will look in vain to see Donald Trump ever taking responsibility for anybody and apologizing. Immigration.
She vowed to fight for justice for her son, so that his death was not in vain.
Our community will deeply miss them, but we must make sure their death is not in vain.
She said that while purists sometimes wrung their hands about its commercialization, their lamentations were in vain.
Plus, in this outcome, the Hermit Nation's considerable investment in hackers would not have been in vain.
The company has tried in vain to figure out how to simplify things for users for years.
It is perfectly civilized for competitors to have cordial relations, I tried to explain, but in vain.
Neilsen (Jeannette Bayardelle) is waiting in vain for a windfall inheritance; she is also sleeping with Nick.
I say, do not allow the lives that have been lost or changed to be in vain.
But the recruiting efforts of the Senate minority leader, Chuck Schumer, have not been totally in vain.
Some clusters may just be coincidence, and investigators have looked in vain for similarities or shared reasons.
But Ms. Meijer-van Mensch said efforts to get hold of the trophy had been in vain.
The "No guy has all 3" meme is searching in vain for the perfect guy on Twitter.
But he chose to stay in Japan to challenge, in vain, Cy Young's record of 21978 wins.
Promptly, my spun stories about swimming in crystal pools under Moroccan sun seemed to be in vain.
Mr. Rassoul and his son had to chase the dog all through the cemetery, though in vain.
Andrew Cuomo and held up a photo of Scott, confident that his death was not in vain.
In vain his lawyer cited official guidance suggesting that Chinese who studied overseas were allowed two children.
Now, wandering down deserted alleys, past mosques and crumbling archways, I searched in vain for the square.
In 1880, Healy was a lieutenant on another ship that searched in vain for the missing Jeannette.
That's good news for the neighbors, who have tried in vain to sell their home since 2015.
I'd vacantly stare at the fridge in vain only to return minutes later to repeat the process.
"The enemy must know the blood of the leader Zawari will not go in vain," the statement said.
Back at the command center on Koror, several police officers were trying in vain to contact the plane.
For as was written long ago: except the Lord keep the city, the watchman waketh but in vain.
"I tried in vain to get my tubes tied when I was in my 20s," Faulk Dotson says.
On After the Final Rose, Harrison tried in vain to get Galavis to tell Ferrell he loved her.
In meetings and conversations afterward, Mr. Comey has said, the president tried in vain to secure his loyalty.
The House Sergeant-at-Arms eventually arrived to oversee the resecuritization — and attempt in vain to restore order.
The fact that his sacrifice is eventually in vain (they all die anyway) makes it even more tragic.
Jaime and Andrew Sagona tried in vain to grab a hold of the car as it sped away.
Now many of those parents are to find out that the years of chasing arrears were in vain.
I tried in vain to tell Waze where I wanted to go, but was rebuffed at every attempt.
" Smollett after the hearing: "I want you to know that not for a moment was it in vain.
Yet these efforts may all be in vain, given that the government's priority is leaving the European Union.
It may be in vain: the few opinion polls suggest that Thais will throw the new draft out.
After spinning in vain for about 2 minutes, he was quickly lowered down and the curtain closed onstage.
I wish you knew how gawky and gauche people see you as, and that it's all in vain.
Eyewitnesses tell TMZ ... 8 guys on the set tried in vain to lift the car off the stuntman.
"I just have to carry on his name and make sure he didn't die in vain," he says.
The British imprisoned him and tens of thousands of others, trying in vain to stop the growing movement.
Any hopes that the rollbacks may go more smoothly with Pruitt gone are likely to be in vain.
In "Our Boys," Israel Security Agency investigators search in vain for three Israeli boys kidnapped by Hamas agents.
In the face of often overwhelming evidence that their journeys may be undertaken in vain, they still leave.
"Unlike our great politicians, I did not want to make promises in vain," he said at the time.
Politicians have been trying in vain to silence negative commentary about them since the dawn of the republic.
They went to all that trouble in vain, too: Davis lost to Calvin Coolidge in the general election.
But Molina danced around in vain as he tried to locate the ball, enabling Szczur to reach safely.
He often drives a long stretch of Manhattan, from Harlem to Wall Street, looking in vain for passengers.
BOTTOM LINE Tensions worsened when Renault tried to in vain to merge with Nissan and then Fiat Chrysler.
A loud electrified wail came up from the tower grounds as we searched in vain for a cab.
" He said many now feel betrayed: "They feel like all the efforts are about to go in vain.
That does not mean people in the West risk being imprisoned for taking the Lord's name in vain.
If we don't throw ourselves into it, then it feels almost like these people were murdered in vain.
"Now, you can say in a way that the self-sacrifice of Mr. Lee was not in vain."
Zeid said he had phoned Suu Kyi in January, asking her in vain to stop the military operation.
Her devotion to Bran ever since has been in Jojen's honor, so he did not die in vain.
But these efforts might be in vain, as the Iran nuclear deal is already dead in the water.
I'll credit them with a lot of hard work, but for me, most of it was in vain.
And Joakim Noah chased the ballhandler, Thabo Sefolosha, in vain, as if mere effort could save the Knicks.
"You don&apost think your work is being done in vain," Shohreh Aghdashloo, who plays Chrisjen Avasarala, said.
Constand explains why she took the pills, and how she tried in vain to fight Cosby off her.
The Washington Post's David Fahrenholt has searched in vain to find evidence of much charitable giving from Trump.
The Braves added one more run in the sixth, but it was in vain as Atlanta lost once again.
Georgia drags Rachel inside to wash her mouth with a bar of soap for using God's name in vain.
Are these lyrics implying that if the singer did live forever, then they would want to live in vain?
You think history might be in vain, but you're participating in a monumental turning point that threatens that history.
In Tripoli, where notes dispatched from Britain are yet to be distributed, people queued in vain to withdraw cash.
A morning will come when you'll hunt in vain for our Docs because it's your day to wear them.
Other lawmakers running for president have called (in vain, no doubt) for the impeachment of newest justice, Brett Kavanaugh.
But the death of Viserion is not in vain, as Jon Snow believes as he recovers on the boat.
Dealers sat behind blackjack tables, shuffling cards again and again while waiting in vain for gamblers to sit down.
Or fought, unsuccessfully, IRL with a particularly rude salesperson, attempting in vain to get your money back for something.
Painful to try in vain to call to mind any other movie that made black people look this good.
Two patrols containing British soldiers searched the jungle in vain for guerrilla camps before they were extracted by helicopter.
These days it's more like a couple hundred people, with the crowd trying in vain to match Babcock's energy.
And then I attempted, in vain, to evenly toss/coat the noodles with the pea-parm-onion-garlic mixture.
But rising pupil numbers and a falling schools budget mean that such efforts are likely to be in vain.
ON my recent trips to China, I keep looking for Beijing to snap back to reality, but in vain.
Robert Johnson's "Love in Vain" assumes a more somber clip, briefly shaping up as a showcase for Mr. Palmer.
Those members may have come out on top this time, but in a sense, their testimony was in vain.
It is as if women like Katherine Johnson, Margaret Hamilton, and Sara Howard have lived and worked in vain.
Their children paid a ransom and searched for them for years in vain, their son Héctor Ángulo told me.
It's time to reward people who save lives rather than try, in vain, to scare them out of addiction.
Then he wouldn't leave the stage when the music started, and tried in vain to kiss actress Kristy McNichol.
Ten lost a significant amount of blood, and doctors said CPR was administered for two hours, but in vain.
A week after searching in vain and the ensuing deluge of targeted ads, I visited a nearby running store.
Why were the Marines there in the first place, and why were so many lives sacrificed, seemingly in vain?
In this world of water, the FitzGeralds struggle in vain to find their way back to the river's current.
Hitler once sent him a fawning letter, hoping in vain to lure him to perform at the Bayreuth Festival.
If you miss the window, you'll be forced to watch helplessly, tapping in vain, as it unfolds without you.
Then again, if it teaches one officer about the dignity of his office, maybe it wasn't tossed in vain.
Within the administration, Trump's aides tried in vain to convince him of the virus's seriousness, according to the Post.
"Then you realize you have a new purpose: to fight, so that your child's death is not in vain."
"It is maybe the last step, one that must be taken promptly and not in vain," Kyriakos Mitsotakis said.
I will scream our story from the mountain top so that our daughter's journey has not been in vain.
We had to stand up for what was right to ensure that our friends did not die in vain.
Taking the Lord's name in vain was wrong and therefore Miss Connolly was wrong to pretend she hadn't heard.
Beside him, the paraplegic man searched in vain for his small knapsack, which he had lost during the rescue.
If Wednesday's outrage helps the country tone it down a notch, the damage will not have been in vain.
In analyzing the attack on net neutrality, one looks in vain for the problem that needs to be fixed.
Three times the form, reached for in vain, escaped Like a breeze between his hands, a dream on wings.
They also tried in vain to wrest control of a lucrative public relations agency through blackmailing, Mr. Lee said.
But all of my efforts to drown this yuppie trinket hive in the toilet have seemingly been in vain.
For too long, American policy has searched in vain for a deft, simple solution to North Korea's nuclear ambitions.
That nameless scribbler who carefully transcribed Archimedes's work over 1,000 years ago did not labor in vain after all.
Gone are the symbolic flowers she holds: poppies for death, pansies for love in vain, and daisies for innocence.
Dany tried in vain to get Cersei to surrender and return Missandei, but no one really expected that to happen.
Relatives have tried in vain for a decade to find the journalist, nicknamed "Chief" although he held no traditional title.
After they registered, Walid said, Palestinians in Samos waited in vain for asylum interviews, but their names were never called.
Canyon Bridge and Lattice had spent more than eight months trying in vain to persuade CFIUS to clear the acquisition.
You earned it by finding those extra heart containers, perhaps after asking in vain after it before you were ready.
None of that turned out to be true, and for days she tried in vain to track down her son.
In vain American participants at the forum noted that Western scholars in China have endured harsh visa restrictions for years.
But my efforts to get the CIA to declassify information about Guy Sims Fitch have so far been in vain.
For what it's worth, the extra time spent on the Touch controllers does not seem to have been in vain.
While the EU has sought in vain come up with a compromise, the court ruling may just force its hand.
While Krazy Kat remains a powerful commentary on racism, one looks in vain for such commentary in most Disney cartoons.
I try in vain to track him down by phone, to find out whether his dreams of escape panned out.
Indonesia has tried, mostly in vain, to get mining companies to keep their promises to clean up the ravaged landscape.
Calling the Chabad tragedy a "senseless killing" of his close friend, Goldstein said Kaye's death will not go in vain.
And she believes her decision to confront Flake and share her story of experiencing sexual assault was not in vain.
As Hankins' daughter searched in vain for the feminine hygiene aisle, her texts became increasingly frantic — and very, very funny.
Ships tried in vain to defend against heavily-armed pirates using little more than diligent watch-keeping and water cannons.
In Asia, Muslims look in vain for leaders who can actually develop their economies rather than fattening their own stomachs.
"She wants to make sure that it wasn't in vain and that her life stands for something," Ms. Sindland said.
"It's all garbage on top of garbage," said al-Alawi, who cleans around her family's spot every day in vain.
Prost, arriving fourth at the final corner, was passed by two more cars as he pushed his car in vain.
"For years, we tried to resolve this issue bilaterally with Myanmar, but it was in vain," the official told Reuters.
Turkey later asked Germany and Sweden, where Muslim traveled after leaving the Czech Republic, to detain him, but in vain.
This makes Richie something closer to the protagonist of a classical tragedy, struggling in vain to avoid a predestined future.
"We hope the right people will go down, and this won't all be in vain," she told THUMP via Twitter.
Detective Caruso played the video again and again on his computer at home, looking in vain for any extra clues.
The march will make it "feel like the people who died did not die in vain," added Josh Funk, 16.
Kim also began to turn a blind eye to informal markets – a force his father tried in vain to contain.
Two teammates rushed in vain to save the president as it became clear that he was headed for a faceplant.
Obviously it goes without saying that all of this would be in vain without the tunes to back it up.
As passengers struggled to escape, Eyup Bahsi, a 30-year-old Turkish man, looked in vain for his wife, Idil.
This is just the sort of pragmatic, non-ideological problem-solving that voters demand of Washington – so often in vain.
One speaker brought up Jones and asked, to great applause, that her life and her death not go in vain.
They are also in full view onstage, making last-minute adjustments to falling fireplace mantels and sticking doors (in vain).
The business proved so successful that François Coty, the Frenchman who developed modern perfumery, tried in vain to buy it.
"I have my own opinions," Mr. Trump continued, as Mr. Dickerson tried in vain to ask him for an explanation.
He recalled his 22019 months on the campaign trail, reassuring staffers, volunteers and supporters that their efforts weren't in vain.
Lawmakers in both parties have tried in vain to persuade the president to reconsider using protectionism to boost the economy.
According to ABC Entertainment president Channing Dungey, all of our tears over the series finale of Roseanne have been in vain.
Or was he safely in the Red Keep, but then, after Tommen died, he just meowed in vain until his death?
If you've been waiting for Cyber Monday to make your next big computer purchase, that waiting has not been in vain.
"All her serving, all her giving was not in vain," Dormeus said when asked what Smith's gift meant to his family.
"We're optimistic that if [the Wilmington police] do change their policies then [McDole] will not have died in vain," Neuberger said.
After weeks of Fed officials attempting to recalibrate what had been dovish market expectations, their efforts appeared to be in vain.
Some see that role going to Luciano Huck, a television host, whom Mr Cardoso wooed in vain before this year's election.
The 22010-year-old Columbia resident had been looking in vain for Buttigieg all over the South Carolina Democratic Party Convention.
The 20-year-old Columbia resident had been looking in vain for Buttigieg all over the South Carolina Democratic Party Convention.
The list goes on, and if we don't take advantage of the conversations it started, then those 49 died in vain.
The album made it to No. 4 on the Billboard 200 and features the singles "Rotting in Vain" and "Take Me."
His efforts were in vain -- the drug had already found its way into his son's veins, leaving him without a pulse.
Button, the 2009 world champion and a former winner in Monaco, qualified ninth but his sterling efforts were ultimately in vain.
However, Capetillo says those efforts were in vain — the child had already been long dead by the time the neighbor arrived.
Baldwin says he's battled depression and suicidal thoughts—but his plea for change in the mental health industry isn't in vain.
Mr McCabe's defenders note, in vain, that he flagged up his wife's candidacy and was cleared of a conflict of interest.
Many believe the fear black mothers like myself have for our children is in vain, despite overwhelming evidence to the contrary.
Axel Metzker, a lawyer for victims of the Hyper Cacher attack, said he had tried, in vain, to block Beghal's expulsion.
So that her death is not in vain, people should think of Laura before they look for cross border discount surgery.
Were we any closer to discovering the true color of the dress, or had internet reputations been torn asunder in vain?
The only movement is from the keeper and the defender trying in vain to keep the ball out with his head.
"My parents were killed by drunk driver, but my parents did not die in vain," Kasich says in his new ad.
Apparently being a cop wasn't Philip Brailsford's first choice in careers, because he first tried in vain to become an actor.
Many will wait in vain - "scalpers" like Yu Wei have already illegally bought and sold appointment tickets for the day ahead.
It didn't work out, but I did briefly date his friend—another Olly Sykes wannabe—so it wasn't all in vain.
This is often described as "courting" the media -- yet a better description would be attempting to tame it, often in vain.
Baker and Hogan's Democratic opponents tried in vain to link them to Trump by any possible association, no matter how tenuous.
Trump said Tuesday that Warmbier "did not die in vain" and "had a lot to do with us being here today."
But they, and the Haggler, have looked in vain for any reference to this figure in American Express's terms of agreement.
" Another cousin, Wheeler Parker, said he hopes Emmett's name can be cleared soon and prove that "he didn't die in vain.
Mr. Basir shot some rounds, chased him in vain and then left when other Taliban arrived to drive off the attack.
What was in vain was Donham's lie and with the Justice Department reopening the case, maybe now she'll answer for it.
The plan failed to materialize, however, as seen by video footage showing the group trying in vain to fly its drones.
After spending five months designing a logo and website to list the products, he searched in vain for a good supplier.
But he searched in vain for grapes in Northern California, until he discovered that Alder Springs had a scant half-acre.
Many conservationists have questioned whether the entire endeavor is in vain when you consider how much the panda's habitat has shrunk.
Mr. Hale had been dispatched, in vain, as a 5-year-old to hand out stickers to seniors for the cause.
"There are too few jobs here," he said, "and no mobile connection," he added, while fiddling in vain with his phone.
I have even written what I hoped would be definitive responses to various dumb arguments made against fandom, but in vain.
A few far-right nationalists have tried, in vain, to make an issue of the fact that Mr. Zelensky is Jewish.
"We are here by the force of our right," Shafik told a parliamentary leader who tried in vain to stop them.
"Right now, there is a sense of, 'We're not going to let our friend's death go in vain,'" Ms. Desai said.
Mr. Tashi also tried in vain to get the main Chinese state television network, CCTV, to pay attention to his cause.
I am hopeful that Heather Heyer's mother's wish, that her daughter will not have died in vain, is already coming true.
He battled back but it proved in vain as a season which earned him five titles came to a sudden halt.
Their deaths will not be taken in vain but as a calling for the change, gun control and safety in America.
Many scoured the wreckage in vain for missing loved ones, settling for what few possessions they could wrest from the mud.
"Lyra symbolized the new Northern Ireland and her tragic death cannot be in vain," Ms. Bradley said in an online statement.
Bitcoin wallets associated with the ransomware were filling up by victims to get their files back — more often than not in vain.
However, their efforts may be in vain as support for the center-right candidate, Francois Fillon, and the independent Emmanuel Macron strengthens.
For years, Missouri death row inmates' attorneys have tried in vain to pull back the curtain on who is supplying the drugs.
When they finish, he opens up with knees and kicks, only to shell back up and let them pound away in vain.
In response, some people try to avoid the news or social media entirely, while others try in vain to follow it constantly.
"Nothing they will do will bring her back, but I do not want her death to be in vain," Lineburger told WFTX.
Barzani has stood by it, saying the overwhelming "yes" for independence "won't be in vain" and would be pursued by peaceful means.
Good boy doing his best to pose with food at the ballpark from r/aww And clearly his efforts weren't in vain.
They reiterate policies they've already suggested in press releases or past years, trying in vain to get Congress to pass them anyway.
But Wood doesn't want his brother's death to be in vain and he has a powerful message for anyone struggling with addiction.
Video footage from the mall showed patrons leaping from windows to escape flames, and others banging on locked exit doors in vain.
Ash plays the ruthless Dina, who tries in vain to make McKinney's earnest Glenn lay down the law for his unruly employees.
A third features Abu Lukhman, an Egyptian, and his colleagues from the military police, looking in vain for a Tunisian, Abu Mariam.
Specialists searched in vain for microscopic tumors and puzzled over Kamni's spinal fluid, which didn't harbor any trace of common brain diseases.
But their appeals may be in vain, given that agents are only now beginning to look through the enormous cache of emails.
Elizabeth is aware of her mother's sacrifices and is determined to make sure that her mother's hard work is not in vain.
It was November 2016 and Sanders was barnstorming Hawkeye State college towns, trying in vain to drum up support for Hillary Clinton.
Helene's lover is shot, menacingly chews on some snow on the way down, and tries in vain get a bullet in Pierre.
"I'm worried about having enough time today to get everybody inside and make sure that nobody waits in vain," he told Hyperallergic.
He had a bewildered, twisted half smile, as though struggling in vain to convey to these improbable witnesses that he remained unbroken.
Time after time, apartment-owners have formed residents' associations to fight plans to build additional towers close to theirs, usually in vain.
In vain, they all tried to point out this was actually a good deal for the United States and for the world.
But it could end up costing him the presidency, the ultimate prize that he has already tried twice, in vain, to win.
The acronym stood for "Jesus F****** Christ" — not only did I take the Lord's name in vain, I used a swear word.
Their efforts, however, are likely to have been in vain, with the European Commission widely expected to veto the deal on Wednesday.
Amid the dizzying turbulence of this moment, we wait -- seemingly in vain -- for honorable, courageous leaders to step onto the national stage.
Elena Reygadas, chef of one of the 50 best restaurants in Latin America, didn't study at the French Culinary Institute in vain.
It's reasonable and valid for fact-checkers to want to have some hard evidence indicating that their admirable work isn't in vain.
"That's actually what I like about this place," Jeremy says, laughing, as they watch me try to capture the moment in vain.
Units of special police forces patrolled the main streets, where groups of public-sector workers loitered in vain hope of resuming work.
Javier Hernández's first two goals back in English soccer proved to be in vain as West Ham lost, 3-583, at Southampton.
The dinner was mostly me being a nervous chatterbox, trying in vain to spark conversation between two people with little in common.
I don't think they died in vain, but you've got to look long and hard to find something that justifies their sacrifice.
As you see me saying 'oh my God,' I am not taking the Lord's name in vain, I am beseeching the Lord.
I waited in vain, not just for Hector's hopefully galvanizing arrival, but for the dozen characters' lives to connect in meaningful ways.
Directed and choreographed by Dan Knechtges, the show is so thoroughly wholesome that I waited in vain for a litter-box joke.
Updike said that one "looks in vain" in "Pack My Bag," Green's memoir, to understand how he became such an original writer.
But other than the log house, a visitor will search in vain for any commemoration of the quintuplets — even a roadside plaque.
"Without the pen of the author of 'Common Sense, the sword of Washington would have been raised in vain,'" John Adams declared.
Tencent waited in vain for over a year for approval to earn money via in-app purchases on its popular game PUBG Mobile.
But the lander stopped communicating with the Rosetta orbiter after just three days, leaving mission control searching in vain for Philae's precise location.
It feels to me like the sound of people from the future, all swiping and tapping on pictures of potential lovers in vain.
Most traders were sceptical, noting that Venezuela and Russia recently called in vain for OPEC and other major oil producers to cut output.
He would not apologize tor toppling Hussein, and he would not admit that the lives that were lost had been lost in vain.
Once I'm back at street level, I can't help but look up — scanning the rooftops in vain for the flash of a cape.
Godspower Gbenekama, a community leader in Tompolo's home area, said doctors had tried in vain to save the father by amputating a leg.
He could try in vain to hire last-minute organizers or beef up data capabilities, but those fixed operations take months to develop.
" All of Hemsworth's efforts during the fires weren't in vain as Cyrus said she made sure "he knew I was very, very grateful.
But we're stronger, we're better, we have way more love in our hearts and because of that, these two didn't die in vain.
Controllers spent weeks scanning in vain for signals, and in late July, they finally found it by using radio telescopes in Puerto Rico.
"Keith's life will not be in vain," Scott's father-in-law, Rayford Dotch, told the congregation, urging people to vote and get educated.
Will loved this city and we must do better together to enact serious change so that Will's unnecessary murder is not in vain.
My promise to Claudia is to fight for justice sot hat her life is not forgotten and her death is not in vain.
It's in its earliest stages, and Manchin has tried in vain to launch things like this before, but worth keeping an eye on.
It has tried largely in vain to become a vendor to the U.S. government, one of the world's biggest buyers of cyber tools.
Wearing a straw hat and bright yellow vest, she hollered, sometimes with a bullhorn, to let them know they were waiting in vain.
You wait in vain for the full weight of bereavement to become apparent, and also for an indication of the density of experience.
Some structural reforms have been undertaken after years of being called for in vain by central bankers, the International Monetary Fund and others.
Twitter famously got big here in 2007, and a succession of other apps have tried to replicate that magic since, often in vain.
We would probably still have had some piece of the British flag upon our own, and Betsy Ross would have sewn in vain.
The group searched in vain to find photos of the slain family elsewhere, until the Menhaz account violently snuffed out any remaining doubt.
Those brave men and women who marched, and sat, and bled for civil rights in America must not have done so in vain.
Three weeks after being released, Vanessa's project debuted number nine on the Reggae Album chart; proof that her labours haven't gone in vain.
A third gas giant, Qatar, waits in vain for a U.S.–brokered end to its economic blockade by neighboring Saudi Arabia and UAE.
On Monday, Mr. Baroni portrayed himself as a dedicated public servant struggling in vain to control a crisis he barely knew anything about.
Local restaurants waited in vain to serve a new president, who they soon discovered prefers burgers and the White House meatloaf at home.
In fact, I'm one of those people who tries in vain to delete the "Stocks" app every time there's a new iOS update.
Business leaders saw their political stock sink after trying in vain to warn people of the risks of leaving the union in 2016.
And Mr Macron has learned the hard way that efforts to charm and cajole Mr Trump into better behaviour are usually in vain.
That may be a more important vocation than hunting in vain for a single avant-garde in a world as large as ours.
"If we cross alone, they'll get us, and all the sacrifices we've made to get here will have been in vain," he added.
Trees take up a lot of our shelf space, and many give their lives in vain; lots of treacle is written about them.
What happened in Kerbala will not be ignored, the blood of our brothers in Kerbala and other provinces will not be in vain.
The bad words were wrong, of course, and taking the Lord's name in vain was wrong, but it was more complicated than that.
But some victims' family members waiting outside the hotel told a different story as they waited in vain for loved ones to exit.
But Sarah Reeves had a more conclusive reason to feel sure her mother's name had been taken in vain: Annie Reeves was dead.
So I spend about an hour or so reading blogs on my phone, hoping in vain for Ed to jump on my lap.
With officers absent or ignored, vulnerable inmates, including those who were wounded and bleeding, often pleaded in vain for help, several inmates said.
And while some fans occasionally take to gaming message boards to wish for a competitor, analysts say those hopes are likely in vain.
Political operatives and reporters searched in vain for them throughout the 2016 election cycle, according to Vanity Fair, and always came up short.
Even if you are willing to sacrifice our national treasures and kill animals in the name of security, it will be in vain.
To spend time with your family and friends," he told BI. "What better assurance to them that they did not die in vain?
"This can't be in vain," Mr. Guaidó told the mother, Ana Cecilia Buitrago, on Sunday morning as tears welled up in his eyes.
Two decades later, he was reduced to an ailing old man trying in vain to delay judgment for genocide in a U.N. court.
Scrapping the impending ban was an idea championed by FPO leader Heinz-Christian Strache, 48, who has repeatedly tried, in vain, to quit smoking.
In vain did I attempt to make a Microsoft representative place certain things, like the "next generation hand tracking" on a real-world roadmap.
Terrified employees and customers "fled the building, fearing for their lives," according to court documents, while Welch searched in vain for child sex slaves.
A senior Iranian official dismissed the campaign, saying the United States had sought in vain to undermine the government since the 1979 Islamic Revolution.
On the short flight back to New York, I tried in vain to hide the Scholastic cover, a blatant nod to the children's section.
Brienne and Podrick finally meet Arya, and after a gruesome duel Brienne defeats the Hound, who begs in vain for Arya to kill him.
As I walked through the space station, coming across the corpses of fallen crew members, I didn't want their deaths to be in vain.
DACA was introduced by then president Barack Obama in 2012, as an executive action, after he had waited in vain for Congress to legislate.
Or maybe it's because I know I will never be as good at makeup as these people are, so I watch them in vain.
Worst of all: in spite of Val's death, the heist fails, and no one even brings up the fact that she died in vain.
BRISBANE, Australia — A woman struggled in vain to drag her friend from a crocodile's jaws off a northeast Australian beach, police said on Monday.
Discontinued. It's the dirty word that every beauty enthusiast who's loyal to a handful of holy-grail products hopes in vain never to hear.
Nicklen said his best hope is that this footage may change human behavior and policy so this animal will not have died in vain.    
But the lawyers' efforts could well be in vain, judging by the tone of the questioning by the judges (whom Trump has also attacked).
Although he seemed to be one of Caravaggio's most talented followers, one could look in vain for any mention of him in biographical dictionaries.
The former star of "Real Housewives of Beverly Hills" waited 15 minutes, trying in vain to convince the guy she was Nice Guy worthy.
Well, no one except the state employee who would end up with the desk, and would try in vain to open the nonexistent drawer.
It gives a new writ to nuclear lawlessness, since Iran's having abided by the agreed rules will be proven to have been in vain.
Every day, thousands of American families go through the same process when a loved one is hospitalized, but this frustration is often in vain.
The late Kenyan environmental activist Wangari Maathai, the first African woman to win the Nobel Peace Prize, tried in vain to halt such construction.
In the meantime, people like Dr. Gupta are left to shoulder their brooms, and to try new foods and new strategies, likely in vain.
He knew he had hurled his sweaty frame there moments earlier as he tried in vain to prevent Marcus Paige's game-tying 3-pointer.
And I want you to know that their blood has seeped into my DNA and I refuse to let their sacrifices be in vain.
So when you go out and watch thousands of leaves absorb sunlight one last time, keep this in mind: They didn't die in vain.
"What if I never get the texts that are sent to me?" she asks, freaking out as Jenny tries in vain to soothe her.
That's not to say that the efforts that Yang and, especially, Warren made to inject their ideas into the campaign were all in vain.
It's strangely consoling to be reminded of my failure, to remember that my efforts to be prepared for epic loss were mostly in vain.
Alaya calls out in vain for his son, even though he is fairly certain where the young man lies buried under the heavy debris.
Even at the time, 1,028 economists — an extraordinary number for 1930 — called upon President Herbert Hoover (in vain) to veto the Smoot-Hawley tariff.
Leaders like Alexander Kerensky, Paul Miliukov and Georgy Lvov tried in vain to establish a stable government and withstand the appeal of extreme forces.
Some rejected the notion that the years they had spent searching for loved ones in the hope that they survived had been in vain.
If we take these statues down and don't change to become a more open and inclusive society, this would have all been in vain.
"Don't worry, the money you've donated will not be spent in vain but rather used towards a honeymoon in the coming months," Pam wrote.
We see her try, in vain, to find work at a department store makeup counter, only to be told she doesn't have retail experience.
Russia, where suicide bombings are not uncommon, particularly on public transportation, has responded — mostly in vain — with a grab bag of heavy-handed tactics.
Prosecutors tried in vain to verify what Mr. Prince and Mr. Bannon told them they had discussed about the offshore encounter with Mr. Dmitriev.
The film seems to ask if King's plea for a more equitable society was in vain: he is preaching to a city in ruin.
The senator was mobbed as he entered and exited the arena, and his Secret Service detail tried in vain to keep fans from crowding him.
Petrocelli, in response, pressed her in vain to show any analytics to prove that Cox needed Time Warner to prevent customers from moving to DirecTV.
Ankara blames Gulen for orchestrating the July 15 coup attempt last year and has repeatedly demanded the United States extradite him, so far in vain.
"Today I assured his dad, as the president said two days ago, their beloved son, Otto Warmbier, will not have died in vain," Pence said.
In vain, ordinance defenders noted that city and state laws already ban lewd or disturbing behaviour in public lavatories, and would continue to do so.
"I don't want you to feel like any of this was in vain," she said on a conference call with the campaign's national prayer team.
He says he knows too many recruits whose legal status expired while they waited in vain for the military to process their pending background checks.
I've made my share of mistakes along the way but if I have changed even one life for the better, I haven't lived in vain.
He hopes, often in vain, for word that a problem he has presented to a company is going to produce some kind of systemic change.
The paradigm for that would be Harry Markopolos [the former securities industry exec who famously tried in vain to warn the SEC about Bernie Madoff].
This was a bemused flock that had waited in vain for a sermon about what it means to be living in the post-Obama era.
Anyone trying in vain to find a taxi on a rainy morning in Manhattan could easily tell you the market was loaded against the customer.
An old starving relative begged him (in vain) to send her food—"I have oak bark mixed with chaff"—and 70 roubles for her funeral.
The Catherine Violet Hubbard Animal Sanctuary is a testament to healing, and a working wish to reaffirm that her life was not lost in vain.
It was in vain, though: He was moved to Attica Correctional Facility in Attica, New York after it all, and denied the privileges he sought.
Unless The Walking Dead is able to effectively deliver on the emotional promise of the situation, both Glenn and Carl will have died in vain.
Obama recalled her train of thought when she looked around in vain for an aide to hand it off to before they posed for cameras.
But when her mood brightens, Lisa revels in discussing all the things she still wants to do to ensure that Andy didn't die in vain.
The man who died in the fire at Trump Tower on Saturday had been trying in vain to sell his apartment since the 2016 election.
Henry Waxman (Calif.) tried in vain to find a solution that would codify the goals of net neutrality that companies and activists would agree to.
The surge, up 20 percent in a year, has confounded buyers who have waited in vain for prices to fall, as they have done previously.
She managed to get her credit card in but was unable to make sense of the machine's buttons—hieroglyphic squiggles she stabbed at in vain.
On national security, readers will search in vain for the name Edward Snowden, or any consideration of the surveillance state that thrived under Obama's watch.
Democrats have demanded in vain to see documents relating Kavanaugh's time as staff secretary to Republican former President George W. Bush from 2003 to 2006.
Obama recalls her train of thought when she looked around in vain for an aide to hand it off to while they posed for cameras.
Both parties are eager to reform the troubled federal housing finance system, but have tried in vain for almost a decade to reach common ground.
It would be heartbreaking to the 2.3 million people behind bars if the naysayers convinced our national leaders that their efforts would be in vain.
Mr. Obama tried twice to restart talks, in vain, and is contemplating laying out his own proposed parameters for peace before leaving office in January.
"Tumacho" is the platonic theatrical version of the artfully anarchic, shrewdly mindless comedies we wait for every summer to hit movie theaters, often in vain.
But hopes that Britain and the EU can reach a deal addressing the nation's migrant population could be in vain, according to a leading academic.
Amid the carnage, many Syrians have continued working, often in vain, to protect the country's historical sites from heavy weapons and other threats, including looters.
As I waited for my turn with the dolphins, I tried in vain to splash away the copious amount of feces floating in the water.
We see big cats — lions, leopards — snatching prey out of trees and on the plains; turning on one another; trying in vain to protect cubs.
With no objections from President Franklin D. Roosevelt, the FBI opened Nye's mail and looked (in vain) for opportunities to charge him with fraudulent activities.
For the pace is hot and the points are near, and Sleep hath deadened the driver's ear, and signals flash through the night in vain.
The United States, where the economy was almost twice as large and growing robustly, was struggling in vain to escape the shadow cast by Japan.
Yet in vain pursuit of numerical certainty about the monthly cost of pay-TV service, the ruling never really came to address this broader question.
The perverse narrative function of the menace stalking Angela is to swoop in like a deus ex machina, attempting in vain to rescue the play.
Both Timothy D. Cook, Apple's chief executive, and Sundar Pichai, Google's chief, have traveled to Brussels to argue their cases in person, apparently in vain.
"Back then, everyone felt like their efforts were in vain," said Dr. Rana Safdar, the national coordinator of the Emergency Operation Center for Polio Eradication.
Even in 1974, many development experts knew their programs might worsen Lesotho's population pressures, but hoped in vain that economic growth would outweigh the burden.
The Rockets lost for the third time in four games, falling behind late in the first quarter and laboring in vain to close the gap.
He told the newspaper that he spoke to the children on the phone as he raced in vain to return in time to save them.
Victory for "our side" depended then on two factors that even today the United States struggles in vain to confer: political legitimacy and military motivation.
Leaders of Britain, France and Germany had implored Mr. Trump in vain to honor the accord, which he has long described as a disastrous giveaway.
Senator Charles E. Grassley, Republican of Iowa and the committee's chairman, accused Democrats of searching in vain for credible reasons to vote against Judge Gorsuch.
Shi called hospitals all over Wuhan, trying in vain to find one with the confirmation test -- a reagent test which chemically tests for the virus.
Even while being drawn more deeply into those conflicts, the Obama administration sought to limit American engagement while pushing — mostly in vain — for diplomatic solutions.
"Please hear my cry, don't allow my son's words and our tears to be in vain," Ms. Carr wrote before sending it off Friday morning.
Over the past two decades however, tensions have simmered and occasionally boiled over with activists pushing in vain for full democracy amidst opposition from Beijing.
When that failed, Kjar said, he met two occupation organizers - Ryan Bundy and Robert "LaVoy" Finicum - urging them, in vain, to at least surrender their firearms.
Parents from the old middle school, unaware of the likelihood of the decision, argued in vain at a hearing to keep their current community school open.
"I'll visit his grave soon to tell him that mom's efforts all these years weren't in vain -- and justice will prevail in your case," she said.
She told a news conference that she had hoped in vain authorities would come up with clearer lessons for anti-terrorism measures to prevent a recurrence.
But in their calculation they think if they do it now then they won't have to later, and I think that will all be in vain.
But it was all in vain when Japan's Yuya Osako leapt above his marker to head a corner into the net for the 73rd-minute winner.
But as the ball comes back down to earth, it bounces back into the goal as the goalie scuttles back in vain, unable to rescue it.
In reality, the letter says, those messages were discovered by civil society groups that tried in vain for days to get Facebook to address the problem.
Ed Bledsoe told the Sacramento Bee he spoke to the children on the phone as he raced in vain to return in time to save them.
People are dying in vain because this country isn't holding their end of the bargain up, as far as giving freedom and justice, liberty to everybody.
Parents tried in vain to learn what happened, expressing frustration that they couldn't verify that their kids were OK, since they typically didn't have mobile phones.
This Thanksgiving, as you try in vain to imagine a sillier, more fun holiday afternoon (rife with plot twists!) look to the Friends episodes for hope.
Hosni Mubarak and Zine el-Abidine Ben Ali, the deposed leaders of Egypt and Tunisia, offered in vain to stand down later if protesters went home.
Detail says he was so badly hurt he couldn't work for a year, and he asked Drake repeatedly, and in vain, to cover his medical expenses.
Sanders himself has stayed out the race, a snub familiar to several Sanders-aligned candidates who waited in vain for a visit from the Vermont senator.
Heartbreaking footage captured in the Rajaji Reserve Forest in Uttarakhand, India, shows a young elephant trying in vain to get their dead mother to move again.
"I cringe" when candidates claim God's support, he adds, noting that one of the ten commandments is: "Don't take the name of the Lord in vain".
Please know that your family's grief, pain and suffering has not been in vain and this is a legacy that Dan will leave here in Parliament.
After the inconclusive 2010 election Lord Ashdown scrambled in vain to midwife a "progressive coalition" encompassing both parties, plus various small centre-left and regional outfits.
Look out!" he called, in vain, because the fat boy, too, and all the boys in the group were descending at breakneck speed, shouting, "Look out!
Back in 2003, when Mark Lamos directed "Shrew" at Yale Repertory Theater, I hoped in vain that the all-male cast would lessen the ending's sting.
Nor can we allow the sacrifice made by the United States and many other countries to be in vain, particularly as there are signs of progress.
Teves' defense partner, Alex Biega, was also caught up the ice as he fell on the play, leaving center Elias Pettersson to chase Steel in vain.
It is our responsibility to make sure that murderers are not rewarded and that a good man who served his country, did not die in vain.
For the past two decades, Washington has been struggling in vain to stop North Korea's aggressive, anti-American leaders from arming the country with nuclear weapons.
While the Yankees try in vain to develop position players — leaving them with an aging and feeble lineup — their rivals are well positioned for the future.
His family fled in search of a better life, but without access to education in their new home, their perilous journey will have been in vain.
Others took offense to the show's use of the word "goddamn," citing the Bible verse that says the Lord's name should not be taken in vain.
That was a major shift for a central bank that has tried in vain for years to reflate the economy and escape deflation through quantitative easing.
"Be nicer, Jonny—please," Thom said, invoking the magic word in vain while brushing Walkers crumbs off his Bernie Sanders t-shirt (it was an import).
" Dipping "a whisker first and then a claw, / With many an ardent wish, / She stretched in vain to reach the prize," until she "tumbled headlong in.
Internet companies have been trying, perhaps in vain, to reassure consumers that privacy is paramount, recently arguing against mandatory privacy restrictions in favor of voluntary commitments.
I don't think it's a spoiler to say that they are waiting in vain, though there is one idyllic scene that briefly and cruelly suggests otherwise.
Interestingly, pagan advisers argued in vain to the first Christian Roman emperors that pagan beliefs had been what won the empire favor in the first place.
The Project was created in part "to demonstrate to those who destroy world heritage that their efforts are in vain," states digital humanities specialist Harold Short.
Then there is his Love in Vain series of five medium-small paintings from 2015, whose collective title comes from one of Johnson's most famous songs.
" Alongside the photo of Thomas Mair, a right-wing extremist convicted of Ms. Cox's killing, the group said, "Don't let this man's sacrifice go in vain.
The researchers looked in vain on the one day that the weather permitted them to reach the spot where the killer whales were believed to be.
In their midst, aglow with a devastating mix of determination and bafflement, is Hester, a Sisyphus of the streets, forever struggling in vain to move upward.
Before Kaval joined the A's in 2016, the team had spent years trying in vain to move to San Jose, where the Giants hold territorial rights.
"We have demanded the government either give loans on easy terms or provide interest-free loans to convert to the technology - but in vain," he said.
Klein was summoned after foreign ministry spokesman Geng Shuang said that any attempt by the U.S. to interfere in China's internal affairs would be in vain.
And since there is very little action in either mode — you will wait in vain for a breakdown or fistfight — both, lacking clear contours, grow muddy.
If the sergeant's death prevents the U.S. from hastily abandoning Afghanistan's 18 million women to the Taliban's misogynistic barbarism, it will not have been in vain.
The U.S., for its part, seems displeased by the maneuver, even though Washington has been trying to find a reasonable exit strategy for years in vain.
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In the first, "Je Tu Il Elle," from 1974, she plays a young woman awaiting a lover in vain and then hitchhiking to track her down.
The university's efforts to come into compliance with the law were in vain, despite bipartisan backing in Congress and statements of support from the State Department.
"Buying all the latest-generation, state-of-the-art engineering will be in vain if you don't have systems in place that prioritize safety," he said.
Somebody better channel the ghost of Christopher Hitchens and politely let the specter know that the entirety of his life's work was, in fact, in vain.
In his trembling hands lay priceless treasures for which I had sought in vain … In the presence of his collection I lost all track of time.
"We made, we forced, we shamed the process to work so Lou Alvarez's passing is not in vain," first responder John Feal said Friday, becoming visibly emotional.
Officials have said the interior of the building was extremely hot, and that staff were scrambling in vain to lower temperatures with fans and portable cooling units.
Igor Rotenberg owns 50 percent of a company that collects tolls from Russian truckers, who protested in vain in 2015 over what they denounced as extortionate fees.
If we are able to pass great legislation after all of these years, we will ensure that those who were attacked will not have died in vain.
He caused more cringing on his own side by blasting the "phony" emoluments clause of the Constitution and by taking George Washington's name in vain on Monday.
In vain, he tries to fit in, pretending to have a taste for football, girls, even for homophobia, until escape becomes "the only option left to me".
All the while, his parents and many supporters ensured his death would not be in vain, waging a cultural and political battle against discrimination and hate crimes.
You're staring at the screen, waiting in vain for Twitter to provide some decent distractions, maybe scrolling through OpenTable for brunch reservations, fantasizing about sleeping in tomorrow.
To that end, the dying Carl decides that his sacrifice won't be in vain, that he will influence his father and have an impact on the future.
I have tried in vain to find this diorama's creator but I fear that because the work possibly predates the internet, the author is lost to Google.
The campaign launched collective outrage and articles (including one by Walton) aiming to make sure that Yuyun's death, like so many others before her, wasn't in vain.
I'm so grateful to the fans who vote, and I want to show them that the time they take to keep me here is not in vain!
At 2:30, he was crouching behind the barbed-wire barrier, whirling his slingshot like a helicopter rotor, aiming in vain at Israeli soldiers again and again.
"If her journey has raised enough awareness of neuroblastoma and childhood cancer to diagnose even one child early enough, her passing won't be in vain," says Paterson.
I pray we can get our animal family what they need to win their heroic fight for survival, so Odin's bravery and sacrifice are not in vain.
"Why would I keep putting myself in this position?" the stunning virgin asks in vain, probably on her way to sign her next Bachelor in Paradise contract.
It now seems truly in vain for me to have shipped this so hard leading up to the film's release, but looking back, the signs were everywhere.
I'm on the docks, sitting at the table of cheap restaurant and trying in vain to clean my fingers, which are as greasy as a bicycle chain.
She was murmuring as she manipulated the creatures, and I tried in vain, from my chair, to make out what the creatures were saying to one another.
Also, his efforts may have been in vain, as wildlife experts tend to agree that the rabbit may have been fine even if it was left alone.
Also not great: David Arquette, who plays Captain Barnabus, a gnarly old salt who tries in vain to convince other grown-ups that sea monsters are real.
She wanted to make sure that this young man's death was not in vain, and so, Natalie set out to educate children, parents, families, teachers, and administrators.
He chopped onions and peppers for spaghetti, the only dinner they knew how to make, and pleaded in vain for Maddie to iron his pants before dates.
"Walter Scott did not die in vain," he said, citing changes that had occurred, including an order by the governor requiring police officers to wear body cameras.
But if gross inequality, social disdain and angry religious intolerance remain the reality, minorities will either perish or flee and America's actions will have been in vain.
You can save yourself time wasted browsing in vain by subscribing to YouTube channels – accounts, in other words – that regularly feature the type of content you enjoy.
Alyssa Battistoni, who recently chronicled her participation in failed unionization efforts at Yale, nevertheless believes that the efforts of her UChicago peers will not be in vain.
The Yankees lost Ellsbury after he slid into the center-field wall while trying in vain to catch a leadoff double from Bogaerts in the seventh inning.
Photos and videos of the woman kneeling with her neck trapped between the fencing, and people trying in vain to save her have been circulating on Weibo.
One was 21-year-old Nicolas Usunier, who dropped out of college in his first year and looked in vain for a job at bakeries and supermarkets.
It's vital that when survivors do come forward, it's not in vain, and the evidence they provide is taken seriously — not only in Cuyahoga County but everywhere.
"I lost everything," said Inpon, who tried in vain to rescue his car by driving it to the highest point in the village - a nearby petrol station.
One can search the news accounts in vain for honorable motives, for openness and integrity, for a sense of "public service" as that overworked term is understood.
"Given these are also the countries taking the most action to respond to modern slavery, this does not mean these initiatives are in vain," the survey said.
As Abotaleb worked in vain on the boy in the operating room, victims from Arhab began arriving outside, piled together in the back of a pickup truck.
The corps de ballet re-forms, becoming an avenue or forest through which hero and heroine walk slowly on separate paths, looking for each other in vain.
The Communists wanted to incarnate France, and beginning in the 1940s they tried in vain to deny De Gaulle a monopoly on the representation of the nation.
Last week, a bipartisan group of lawmakers and activists on Wednesday gathered on Capitol Hill to urge the administration not to let Kassem's death be in vain.
And I looked in vain for any recognition that the romantic disagreements destabilizing the play are not just pretty plot devices but dangerous disruptions with larger implications.
And, they say that the effort to find Mr. Kony has not been in vain because it has also helped build trust between American and African troops.
Visco also took aim at EU "bail-in" rules forcing investors to takes losses at failing banks, which Italy argued in vain should be introduced more gradually.
But the subject is so emotive -- and there is still so much suspicion still lurking around Trump's behavior -- that such hopes will prove to be in vain.
They tried in vain to tear holes in the metal walls with a pair of barber scissors belonging to a migrant who was a hairstylist from Argentina.
Some applied in vain for jobs at a nearby Fiat automobile plant, where the work force has declined to fewer than 5,000, from 15,000 in the 1970s.
Some applied in vain for jobs at a nearby Fiat automobile plant, where the work force has declined to fewer than 5,000, from 15,000 in the 1970s.
" Asked whether American lives had been lost in vain — to date more than 2,300 American troops have lost their lives in the war — Milley responded, "Absolutely not.
"I've never met anybody like you, and I knew if I wasn't with you, I'd be searching in vain for the rest of my life," Smith said.
Kosovo's constitution mandates the creation of an national army but no action was taken for years while Pristina sought, in vain, to obtain the approval of Kosovo Serbs.
When asked to clarify the definition of "this year's biggest acts," a Spotify representative told me that Korn's single "Rotting in Vain" has been streamed 8.5 million times.
I spent an entire work day waiting in vain for my appliances, including a medium-grade 30-inch Whirlpool bottom-freezer fridge with accu-chill that never came.
Kosovo's constitution mandates the creation of a national army but no action was taken for years while Pristina sought, in vain, to obtain the approval of Kosovo Serbs.
Khloe Kardashian watched attentively Saturday night as BF Tristan Thompson tried in vain to beat the L.A. Clippers ... and she did nothing to stop the rumor she's engaged.
If you want to spend a half hour decorating a Facebook Story with stickers and drawing and captions and augmented reality, you know it won't be in vain.
The fast actions of Ellwood — a former British Army officer whose brother Jonathan was killed by terrorist bombings in Bali, Indonesia, in 2002 — proved to be in vain.
Chief Executive Jan Leuscher said his company had nothing to do with the emails in question, which it also found misleading and had tried in vain to stop.
She said the hospital had searched "the length and breadth of the country" for an intensive care specialist willing to oversee the care at home, but in vain.
A succession of managers including ex-Hesse state premier Roland Koch tried in vain to gain control of what had become a sprawling empire of autonomous service companies.
Pellé got some torque going and ripped a volley into the back of the net as Thibaut Courtois—who made some spectacular saves to do—flailed in vain.
His arms and legs were covered in green and blue bruises from when we pinched him every hour in vain to see if he would move a muscle.
Indeed, Trump is expected to announce an arms package worth upwards of $85033 billion during the trip, a sign Saudi efforts to court him are not in vain.
His speaking voice also has a numbingly consistent and contrived cadence that makes one suspect that he has studied, in vain, one too many tapes of JFK's delivery.
The wife and daughter of Ilgar Mammadov, the leader of the opposition REAL political movement, waited in vain for him to be allowed his twice-weekly call home.
The scientists who detected him on sonar surmised that this must mean that he is alone, calling out in vain for a friend who will never hear him.
Of course, the loss of Coin wasn't totally in vain — the company was ultimately purchased by Fitbit, which ultimately incorporated its mobile payment tech into the Ionic smartwatch.
Juliette Binoche brings luminous intensity and wicked humor to the role of Isabelle, who is first seen naked in bed, under a man who's pumping away in vain.
Jet-lagged and sleep-deprived, Alan tries in vain to find his bearings, while obsessing about a strange lump on his back that he unsuccessfully tries to remove.
Social media users were quick to criticize the National Football League on Wednesday after several football fans attempted in vain to purchase jerseys bearing the deceased gorilla's name.
Equipping Latino young people with a strong education will perpetuate America's greatness and help ensure that the hard work of our foremothers and fathers was not in vain.
He said that after observing Iraq's descent into violence, including a recent car bombing in Baghdad that killed scores, "I can only conclude my son died in vain."
She now wants to show that her parents' decision to relocate from Australia to Britain so that their daughter could chase her tennis dreams was not in vain.
Turkey has also pressed, so far in vain, for the United States to extradite Gulen over the July 2016 putsch, in which more than 240 people were killed.
Her husband, struggling in vain with his homosexuality, divorces her, and she falls for her African-American gardener only to see him forced out of town by bigotry.
In the absence of G.E.'s blockbuster invitation, the 43-year-old Reagan probably would have waited in vain, like many of his peers, for better movie offers.
Before moving to the Malibu mansion, Bey, Jay and Blue Ivy were living in a luxurious hotel as they hunted in vain for a place of their own.
Throw in good-field no-hit stalwarts of the period like Mark Belanager and Larry Bowa, and it was as if Boudreau and Stephens had played in vain.
Because Tara doesn't know the Saviors are still a threat, "Swear" concerns itself with her gradual realization that Rick's group's mission to kill the Saviors was in vain.
U.S. law enforcement and intelligence agencies have long lobbied in vain for legislation that would require technology companies to provide back doors in equipment that use encryption technology.
Azar also tried in vain to block Jerome Adams, the US surgeon general and a trained anesthesiologist, from joining the task force, despite Adams's expertise in the area.
The quarter was proof that changes to the company were paying off, he said, suggesting that the tumult of the past six months had not been in vain.
I only hope that the martyrs of the Tree of Life — like those in Charleston, Charlottesville and other mass shootings motivated by hate — did not die in vain.
It is now believed the dead man was there for a full week — a week that his family spent in vain asking the police to look for him.
But in examining court decisions on these questions, one would search in vain for indications that partisan political opposition, rather than legal analysis, is driving the decision-making.
While their efforts helped introduce the notion of employment discrimination into popular consciousness two years before the Civil Rights Act made it illegal, it was ultimately in vain.
A local community board had tried in vain to stop a similar expansion just seven doors away, in a home that is considered the oldest dwelling in Chelsea.
The crackdown follows many warnings by rights advocates that any promise of civil protections would be in vain, given the military's increasing grasp on power in the country.
Everything she makes is meant to be tasted, not simply commemorated in a photograph: "It's important to me that the food is not used in vain," she says.
" The amorous German lingered in Douglass's circle year after year, waiting in vain for the divorce that would allow her to "walk tall as the rightful 'Mrs. Douglass.
Hoping to cast doubt on the DNA results, his lawyers, Christopher Flood and Sylvie Levine, asked for the FST source code, which other lawyers had sought in vain.
Just ask the lonely, stalwart champions of campaign finance reform, who have labored in vain for decades to push their issue to the front of the priority stack.
Across the country, steady streams of citizens have been trying their luck at A.T.M.s to see if they can manage to get any dollars out — mostly in vain.
They made a pleasant whooshing sound as I ran up the stairs of my house, searching in vain for whatever shoes a grown man might wear with them.
However Valletta and Rome sought in vain to enrol earlier this month more EU peers in a migrant relocation scheme among EU countries they agreed with France, Germany.
But we don't have to let it be in vain -- and we can start by protecting other animals, and looking out for the many humans who also suffer.
Prunty had been feet away from the gun blast that killed Scott, diving to the ground as the teen sprinted in vain for the safety of the market.
They have watched in vain as the trade war has hurt the competitiveness of U.S. agricultural products, allowing their Brazilian and Argentine peers to get rich off China.
" He adds: "As soon as they locked me up inside the box, I tried my best to sit up, but in vain, for the box was too short.
Carrère is just awaking to the devastation of the tsunami in Sri Lanka, and he is walking around meeting people who are seeking their loved ones in vain.
European Commission officials have been trying — thus far in vain — to understand whether proposed U.S. tariffs on steel and aluminium will end up impacting their 28 member states.
Hollander says she's been trying in vain to get in touch after we posted a story that Chelsea apparently tried hanging herself in her cell early Tuesday morning.
"It also confirms that our commitment to a strong and ambitious climate change policy is not in vain, and that we can win the climate battle," he said.
He fears becoming unemployed like his elder brother, who recently returned to their village in the northern state of Uttar Pradesh after months of searching in vain for work.
But in the libretto that gap covers three years of suffering for the title character, a betrayed young geisha waiting in vain for the return of her American husband.
A new report indicates that attackers are actively exploiting a vulnerability in devices like routers and video game consoles that researchers have been warning about, in vain, since 2006.
Rouhani's rivals say the president bet too strongly on rapprochement with the West, waited in vain for foreign investment, and did too little at home to improve national production.
Video TRUMP-KIM SUMMIT PREDICATED ON DEATH OF AMERICAN OTTO WARMBIER, PRESIDENT SAYS "Otto did not die in vain," Trump said as he discussed North Korea's human rights record.
"I probably won't be able to unlearn the muscle memory that made me open it in vain to check notifications on posts that are no longer there," he wrote.
No doubt a syphilitic holy man dressed in desert rags, he searches in vain for just the right metaphor, a well-aimed zinger with which to make his point.
The tragedy hung over the show for its remaining seasons; scriptwriters attempted in vain to find an alternative path for Rachel, his love interest, that did not involve him.
And it's because of this wonderful organization that raises money every year that goes to research to help people not have this disease – so Ingrid didn't die in vain.
And it means that if you're one of those creatives who have patiently been waiting for Apple to upgrade the MacBook Pro then your wait hasn't been in vain.
When a windy season on Mars began in November, scientists hoped that gusts might clear debris from its solar panels, but that hope appears to have been in vain.
At the Florida delegation breakfast this morning, Wasserman Schultz gave a speech, or rather shouted in vain over chants of "Shame!" from an ornery crowd of Bernie Sanders supporters.
Their efforts were in vain — the first three questions were about Trump, and officials ended the press conference when it became clear no one wanted to ask about AlphaBay.
Both were in Cannes for the premiere of "Money Monster", a satirical hostage thriller which struggles in vain to match its most obvious influences, "Network" and "Dog Day Afternoon".
Jess (Ally Maki) and Todd (Will Greenberg) are a mismatched couple who have been together for years, she hoping in vain that he might put a ring on it.
This tiny nation of 6 million, strategically balanced between Israel and Syria, suddenly finds itself drawn deeply into an Iranian-Saudi conflict it has tried in vain to avoid.
"This is a mockery of taking the Lord's name in vain and also highly offensive to Christians," said the petition, started by a person identifying himself as Ian O'Sullivan.
Did you know that open relationships never work and casual sex is a lie you whisper to yourself as you try in vain to suppress your pair-bonding instincts?
"He may as well have ran his sword through me," she hisses, while Mother Hildegarde tries in vain to offer some sort of forget-I'm-a-nun marital advice.
The jury found in his favour, delivering a 'not guilty' verdict, though his friends in football largely disowned him and his attempts to rekindle his career were in vain.
Ayman, his eyes closed and mouth open, was wrapped in a blanket placed on a stretcher outside the clinic after medics had tried in vain to save his life.
Not upon her high school graduation, not on her wedding day and not early this year, when she again searched online in vain for any trace of her father.
Such a move, she argued, would pressure the Russians, with whom Mr. Obama's secretary of state, John Kerry, tried in vain over seven months to negotiate a cease-fire.
In Gariahat market, where I once watched my mother unfurl sari after sari, one street vendor leaned wearily against a wall, dabbing his head with a handkerchief in vain.
The results were not glorious snapshots of the barbudos entering Havana in January of 1959 but rather military coups, torture, disappearances and thousands of student lives lost in vain.
Set in an isolated village in Southern Spain, Lorca's tragedy tells the baleful, simple story of a farmer's wife who prays, insistently and in vain, to be a mother.
His aides tried in vain to keep him from making impromptu speeches to rowdy crowds lest he do something like call for the hanging of a member of Congress.
The couple, who had gotten engaged in Central Park, flagged down a police officer to report the ring mishap, after trying in vain to recover it on their own.
His voice and chords are not all he appears to be losing; even the words escape him as he tries in vain to renegotiate his place in the world.
He wants to document his journey so that, should there come a day when his condition keeps him from remembering his children, his efforts will not be in vain.
Germany has also insisted, so far in vain, on the release of two journalists working for German news outlets who have been incarcerated for weeks or months without charges.
Cruz raced back more than 2000 strides and leapt for it, but his efforts were in vain and the Rangers went on to lose the game and the series.
Instead, stuck in the grip of stale "supply side" dogma, Republicans consistently choose to spend down their political capital by cutting taxes and struggling in vain to reduce spending.
Veterans on that Lakers team tried in vain to keep Bryant's rookie ambitions modest — with O'Neal particularly determined to make it clear that he was the team's true alpha.
They have Wi-Fi, but it is spotty, and even if it were not, they might search in vain for information about their plight from tight-lipped Japanese authorities.
The Trump administration and Congress have been pressing the Saudis to end the war in Yemen, and the administration has pushed them to reconcile with Qatar, largely in vain.
Even if we can save one other person, I think that would give peace to Srinu and give me the satisfaction that his sacrifice did not go in vain.
The demonstrators, he said, had tried in vain to save Carlos, pushing his limp body onto a motorcycle to be taken to a hospital, where he was pronounced dead.
Horse carriages wait in vain as there are no tourists to drive around; shop criers turn hoarse shouting prices of perfumes and colognes few Iranians can afford to buy.
Their deaths are tragic, but they were also preventable -- and if we finally take seriously the lessons of centuries of anti-Semitism, they don't have to be in vain.
Now, archeologists have found evidence that a Neolithic settlement off the Carmel Coast in Israel did notice, and tried in vain to protect themselves by building a coastal wall.
In August, an Afghan military base in the northern province of Faryab was overrun by Taliban fighters after commanders had begged in vain for air support and helicopter resupply.
A winged figure who may be Eros, the Greek god of love, stands nearby, as does a dog — tugging in vain at Narcissus' garment, unable to pull him away.
"I don't know what she said — but I think I know what she said," Mr. Trump said, vowing that Ms. Pérez's son, Óscar Pérez, did not die in vain.
If Mr. Kim concludes that his two-way diplomacy with Mr. Trump is in vain, he may play off Mr. Putin's desire to increase his own influence in Asia.
She is the cayenne pepper that Ben's season so desperately needs, even as he tries in vain to scrape off her high maintenance ramblings, one cauliflower floret at a time.
China thundered in vain that America should cancel her visit, during which she met members of Congress and delivered a speech at Columbia University in defence of liberal, democratic values.
"There isn't one member of those families that doesn't know the name of Jay McGillis," says Coughlin, adding that McGillis' mother recently told him her son didn't die in vain.
The summit host, Mr Macron is painfully aware that his efforts over the past two years to charm and cajole Mr Trump into better behaviour have largely been in vain.
The Wetterlings told the Star Tribune they do not believe their son died in vain as laws, conceived in his honor, have been passed since 1989 to keep children safer.
The sitcom routinely presented memorable Thanksgiving episodes, from the one with the List — that list — to the one where Rachel Green (Jennifer Aniston) tries in vain to make a trifle.
If we don't do this, then there is a real danger that terror victims like my sister -- and scores of other more recent ones -- will have all died in vain.
But we must also ensure that as the decimated power grid is pieced back together, this catastrophe—and the far too many that preceded it—were not suffered in vain.
Communications showed that in the final moments, the captain tried in vain to find the right procedure in the handbook, while the first officer was unable to control the plane.
Spain, the former colonial ruler of Peru, tried, in vain, to seize the islands by force, while Great Britain instructed navy crews to look for guano deposits during their trips.
Galan says she tried in vain for at least a week to get in touch with Galicia while he was being held, but was given the runaround by Border Patrol.
In fact, Ryan's tried in vain to turn the media's attention to the "Better Way" plan, whipping out a pamphlet tucked into his front suit pocket at almost every opportunity.
You can smell farts coming off his brain as his arms wobble weakly, trying in vain to craft a story that will absolve him of SOME of the blame, here.
CHIMANIMANI, Zimbabwe (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Stella Mwareya cannot hide her frustration as she struggles, in vain, to clear a fast-growing light green shrub that is taking over her farmland.
Sources familiar with the situation tell us, she's been trying in vain to serve Chris with the temporary restraining order she got last month, but he's evaded service 3 times.
But I'll still be watching the head lice battles from the sidelines, silently cheering all the parents who search in vain through shining tresses for the one that got away.
Agency veterans and union officials insisted that Blankenstein was unfit to oversee the CFPB's racial discrimination cases if he held those views and demanded in vain that Mulvaney fire Blankenstein.
Also, knowing everything Herbalife was going through with the entire Federal Trade Commission investigation that ended up in our favor, I knew really my trip there wouldn't be in vain.
That was a shift from his earlier support for limited cuts at a time when he was hoping, in vain, to reach a grand fiscal bargain with Republicans in Congress.
Kenya's world 53,25m champion Vivian Cheruiyot tried in vain to keep up with Ayana but had to settle for silver while Ethiopian Tirunesh Dibaba, the defending Olympic champion, grabbed bronze.
Spending much of the first half blocking or running routes in vain, Cruz said, he kept looking at the clock, wondering if he would get a pass thrown toward him.
"Any attempt to conceal the truth is extremely stupid and in vain," environment ministry spokesman Liu Youbin said at a news briefing in Beijing when asked about the port incident.
But to someone who doesn't know Baby In Vain, I would say that it's probably what has come of giving in to urges stuck deep within the three of us.
Valentina Matviyenko, speaker of the upper house of parliament, in November publicly rebuked the transport minister over the large sums she said had been pumped into the Superjet in vain.
And Gola White, who raised eight children in the Adams Houses, all of them homebodies with big, brown eyes, is trying in vain to move out before she loses another.
Older members said Ms. Harris's challenge to Mr. Biden last week — over his opposition to busing during the 1970s — was evidence that years of sacrifice had not been in vain.
I don't want my parents' sacrifices and hardships to be in vain because I didn't raise successful, intelligent, "Asian" children, and I know the same goes for other Asian-Americans.
Her shot from the top of the penalty area curled into the upper right corner as Naeher, stranded off her line, could only reach in vain with her left hand.
Two young boys watch as doctors search in vain for their brother's pulse: the four-year-old had been playing in the street outside his home when an airstrike hit.
Sebastian Rudy, who started in midfield in place of Sami Khedira, is down on the turn after getting kicked in the face as he slid in vain for a ball.
He refused to concede that flag burning is constitutionally protected speech, insisting that it should be illegal even as he tried in vain to pivot to the announcement of Rep.
Officials have battled in vain to present a positive image amid a welter of negative headlines linked to a corrupt bidding process and reports about worker deaths in the country.
I hit snooze on my alarm clock five times, woke up late and spent the next half an hour scurrying around, trying in vain to get to work on time.
The number of people killed is not ordinary, but the solidarity in New Zealand is extraordinary to the families of the victims, your loved ones did not die in vain.
This means that transactions during an ICO will go through slowly, and similar to trying to buy a ticket for the Super Bowl online, your efforts might be in vain.
Though that may mean a 10 or 11-member court for a time, this temporary outcome is preferable to waiting in vain for the "perfect" moment to implement term limits.
Unless you have a mean boss, an abusive parent or a malicious friend, most people are happy to help us maintain the delusion that our efforts are not in vain.
Not only did he meet with Sun Yat-sen and Chiang Kai Shek, but he traveled to distant areas to meet with regional warlords and advocate (in vain) for unity.
In part two of the film, he works hard and in vain to find them new homes, conducting a vox pop amongst a citizenry every bit as helpless as himself.
It wouldn't erase her pain, but it would give her some solace to know his death created a wave of positive solutions for her community—that he didn't die in vain.
" Explaining that his instructions were his final will and testament, he ordered his followers to: "Take my revenge on [the Americans] and do not let my blood be wasted in vain.
"Put this in your mouth and drive... You do not put the lord's name in vain, and you don't touch little girls!" she yells before attacking his car with a bat.
Julie Campos, the mother of Luis' two youngest children, tells PEOPLE she refused to leave her husband's hospital bed as she prayed in vain for him to make a miraculous recovery.
All of these things are great, and so despite the behind-the-scenes turmoil, I remain cautiously optimistic that the perfect — PERFECT — ending of Toy Story 3 was not in vain.
As Rouse gave her lecture in mid-September, Yiannopoulos was preparing in vain for four days of what University of California President Janet Napolitano called "controversial and noxious" programming in Berkeley.
To those young rappers taking his name in vain, Mr. Cole wants them to know he is listening, not just to study their weaknesses, but also to acknowledge their formal innovations.
Not for the first time, however, some Republicans did not quite seem up with the program, expressing hopes -- probably likely to be in vain -- that the drama could become less frenetic.
But it has limitations: one would scour its pages in vain to find any acknowledgment that private initiative, or even problem-solving human ingenuity, could ease the travails of the Earth.
Beijing's tightening grip on the financial hub has stoked social tension and protests including the 2014 "Umbrella Movement" demonstrations that demanded, in vain, full democracy for the city of 7.3 million.
And if Virginia loses at Louisville, the Hurricanes would -- finally -- be Coastal champions, a distinction they&aposve annually chased in vain since the ACC went to a divisional system in 20113.
"It was in vain if you didn't use any hashtags or keywords, because those brought you to the attention of specific communities and rankings," the boost group member told The Verge.
Wade attempts to split the converging Memphis defenders but the ball bounces off Gasol's leg, and a poor, desperate, elderly Wade, collapses to the floor and dives for it in vain.
On Iran, Macron urged Trump in vain earlier this year not to pull out of an international deal that eased sanctions against Iran in return for curbs on its nuclear program.
As Stecher tried in vain to catch Josi, the Nashville defenseman fed Jarnkrok in front of the post and Jarnkrok's wrister eluded Ryan Miller's glove as the crowd erupted in celebration.
There sat Cindy McCain, by herself in the front row, clutching a tissue while audibly sniffling as she tried in vain to push back tears as she watched the scene unfold.
And when Ezekiel's tiger Shiva took out at least three times as many Saviors as Sasha just a few minutes later, it became clear that Sasha's death was entirely in vain.
Instead, they tried in vain to sell their queue places to genuine Apple enthusiasts outside the first Russian store to sell the new iPhones XS and XS Max in central Moscow.
"A mother had her eyes gouged out with spears as she tried in vain to prevent her 17-year old daughter from being raped by 14 soldiers," she told the Council.
The documents include brief excerpts from her journal and the plaintive text messages she tried in vain to send to her husband from a place beyond the reach of cell towers.
But an anticlimactic last stanza like that of Duparc's "Sérénade," in which the poet Gabriel Marc fears that "in vain I seek to please you," requires a more psychologically curious singer.
In vain would that man claim the tribute of patriotism who should labor to subvert these great pillars of human happiness — these firmest props of the duties of men and citizens.
In 1986, intellectuals and television personalities fought, ultimately in vain, against the opening of the first McDonald's in the Piazza di Spagna, calling it an offense to Italy's traditional food culture.
By the time their home was foreclosed on in 2013, and after the family tried in vain to lower monthly payments, the Cellinis had bounced from one mortgage firm to another.
In "Unformed Landscape", after leaving her loveless marriage Kathrine goes to Denmark, Paris and Boulogne in search of a man she once knew, hoping in vain for a spark of romance.
But that would be discounting the fact that many people were so desperate to get Pokémon Go early that surely they tried, in vain, to use a VPN to access it.
Mojtaba, who asked that he be identified by only his first name, said he had been trying in vain to get out to fight in Syria for the past two years.
One searches in vain for combatants who had not reached conclusions that conformed to their partisan or judicial views well before either Dr. Christine Blasey Ford or Judge Kavanaugh was heard.
So you sent me this long, long pitch, which was in vain because I already told you that I was gonna have you on to talk about the podcast ... It worked.
LeBron's rampages were barely sufficient against the Pacers and appear to be in vain against the Celtics when Al Horford is playing the most forceful two-way ball of his career.
Felicity Huffman might be trying to chip away at her court-ordered community service early and often -- but it's unclear if it'll be in vain or actually count toward her sentence.
It has taken a series of steps beyond those limits, trying in vain to pressure the Europeans to make good on a commitment to ease the economic pain of American sanctions.
Then and since, they have defended him on social media and in the press, assuring the world that, with President Trump in office, their children will not have died in vain.

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