All that time and energy spent agonizing over every em-dash and semicolon, for naught!
But all their efforts may be for naught if the queen bee doesn't approve.
All of this will go for naught if people don't have a good education.
But all that planning goes for naught, if your video chain and all others go under.
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His repeated attempts to have courts look anew at his conviction were, until recently, for naught.
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In the end, for both Clark-Pleasant and Lewiston, the fundraising might be for naught.
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If one of them hit me, my efforts to avoid the baby would be for naught.
The Islanders' intensity paid off in the home team's first power play that also went for naught.
All of these aforementioned innovations are for naught if the networks are too overloaded to support them.
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On the evening of July 14th, Kellond and Marino believed all of their hard work might be for naught.
Yet within minutes of the first guests arriving, they were alarmed to discover that all of their privacy efforts were for naught.
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If lawmakers insist on keeping NOPEC in their final bill, all of their work on the Senate bill might have been for naught.
All our steps to rein in the deficit will be for naught if we do not reduce the rate of health care cost growth over time.
But the immense efforts of the U.S. government, United Nations agencies, global donors, scientists, service providers and activists will be for naught if the money ceases to flow.
As a successful entrepreneur, my work and legacy will be for naught if I do not serve as mentor to emerging African entrepreneurs who are following in my footsteps.
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There are times when it feels like all these efforts are for naught, and change is so painfully slow in coming, and I have to confront my own doubts.
If so, honeyed words from the mouths of European leaders about needing and wanting Serbia will count for naught and a strategy of containment will come to the fore.
Or will the company realize belatedly that it steamrolled history and local pride for naught, and that what customers really want is the quality, value and customer service of yesteryear?
In the end, though, it was all for naught.
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Their efforts went for naught when New York art dealer Jeffrey Loria bought a majority interest in the team and flipped it for the Florida Marlins, forcing the Expos to move to Washington.
You may be funny, smart and easy to dance with, but if you are not engaging employees on an ongoing basis, all of your work in developing a strategic plan will be for naught.
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Hadoop engineers and contributors can work as hard as they want to harden Hadoop for the enterprise, but without the necessary skill set to put it into production, the efforts would be for naught.
Yet, the Greatest Generation understood that the sacrifice entailed in winning that war would be for naught if a further, financial sacrifice were not made to secure the peace in Europe and East Asia.
Some thought the shtick was all for naught.
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Their efforts have so far been for naught, but Congress is hoping that such a unified stance from the US will help sway the votes that are due to happen later this week in Dubai.
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There has been some stability in parts of Iraq where there was turmoil before and that any quick, overly quick withdrawal could undermine all of that and all of that progress would be for naught.
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But they will all be for naught unless the Greek political system can form a viable government that will implement the commitments it has undertaken -- properly amended in ways that Greece and its lenders can agree on -- and set the foundations for the transformation of the Greek economy to allow it to benefit from any improvement in Europe's prospects.
It just goes to show once again: The best of intentions often come to naught in the absence of respect for what's right and a bit of modesty.
It too came to naught, when Mr Yang was arrested in China for tax evasion.
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And without a lessening of hostility across the world's most heavily fortified border, efforts to negotiate a peace treaty for the peninsula and to bribe North Korea into giving up its nuclear weapons ambitions may come to naught.
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