We respect their work quite a bit (in part because our field derives some of its intellectual origins from theirs), but we hope in vain that they would share some of their limelight with us.
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Or do we stand with their oppressors, in the vain hope that the latter will treat us better?
President Obama's alienating of Israel, Poland, the Czech Republic, Honduras and other allies in the vain hope of currying favor with their foes, and ours.
Now Malaysia appears intent on following those same models once more, by deferring an inevitable financial crisis in the vain hope that something will turn up.
The central government in Bamako, which had been democratically elected, was overthrown in a military coup on March 22nd in the vain hope of preventing a northern takeover.
By 1898, the 38-year-old Chekhov had moved to Yalta on the Black Sea, in the vain hope that its balmy climate would aid his struggle against his disease.
Other royals in the Persian Gulf are also in the Islamists' cross-hairs, despite the longstanding practice by the former of generously underwriting the latter in the vain hope of buying them off.
Rather than making wrongheaded concessions to Obama on Jewish population growth in the vain hope of mollifying him, Israel should go on the offensive on issues where it has something to gain from a confrontation.
"China knows North Korea is useful as an irritant that prompts the U.S. and Japan to moderate their attitudes to China in the vain hope of eventual assistance on North Korea, " says Gerald Segal, director of studies at the International Institute for Strategic Studies in London.
And plans are afoot to turn the bureau into an independent agency, in the probably vain hope that this would free it from politics.
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"It is my greatest hope that his death will not be in vain and that through this research his legacy will live on and others won't have to suffer in this manner, " Tregg Duerson said.
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All we can hope and pray for is that he hasn't lost his life in vain.
Vain though the hope may be, it would be nice if Brazil and others responded by denouncing those in Havana and Caracas who hide behind anti-Americanism as a pretext for their own authoritarianism.
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