Since April the pace of appreciation has been much reduced, in a vain effort to discourage speculators.
It is likely to be a vain exercise: unnecessary if the downturn is mild, but insufficient to deal with a truly dire mess.
It tells of a strange child's forlorn travels through the universe after quitting his native planet, B-612, to escape a vain, capricious rose.
More and more rural areas are being buried under concrete in a vain attempt to tackle congestion on motorways and other major routes.
The Fed faces a very dangerous tradeoff: risk higher inflation by expanding the monetary base (currency plus bank reserves) in a vain attempt to lower unemployment.
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And on January 30th, Thailand eased the exchange controls put in place last May in a vain effort to protect the value of its currency, the baht.
Still open is the question of whether the injunction against Corley, or the fight against DeCSS itself, is not a vain struggle in the face of inevitable change.
Rush, with his baritonal amplitude and fondness for mock pomp, makes the actor a vain, hollow man, grasping at something that he knows has eluded him his entire life.
Cities like these are in fiscal trouble because the government (both local and state) spends more than it takes in and then raises taxes in a vain effort to make up the difference.
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After a vain and castigated bid to force the Bundesbank to revalue its gold reserves and pay over part of the book profit, the government is now mulling over painful new spending cuts.
To say that Congress may withdraw or ignore that pledge is to assume that the Constitution contemplates a vain promise, a pledge having no other sanction than the pleasure and convenience of the pledgor.
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It did not prove an expensive miss, but there were further problems for Ponting in the final session as he rotated his bowlers in a vain attempt to break the partnership between Kallis and Prince.
For example, a just-completed investigation by the Senate Armed Services Committee questioned General Powell's judgment in agreeing to deny AC-130 gunships to the units sent to Somalia in a vain effort to capture Mohammed Aideed.
Fragasso is no cynical hack but, rather, a vain failed artist who thinks much of his own imagination and whose work, on the basis of clips included here, proves that bad ideas are far better than no ideas at all.
One example was the way she responded to Alfredo's late plea that they leave Paris together so she could regain her health: "Parigi, o caro, " she echoed, but her subdued, wistful tone told us she knew it was a vain hope.
The members of the group, which includes an urbane young doctor, a vain and verbose prosecutor, a Gogol-esque clerk with a laptop computer, and a punctilious military officer standing guard, grow increasingly irritable as they slog through lonely and uninviting terrain.
These ideas try to respond to two chronic worries of Japanese voters: that the economy will continue to slide, and that the construction state will cover what little remains of their country with concrete in a vain attempt to fix the problem.
On a day when thousands of people around the world are preparing to explain how a web cam works to elderly relatives in a vain attempt to wish them a merry Christmas, some may just go straight to the old-fashioned use of a telephone.
All our family acquaintances have followed the same path: their youth spent trying to make the most of their intelligence, squeezing their studies like a lemon to make sure they'd secure a spot among the elite, then their entire lives wondering with a flabbergasted look on their faces why all that hopefulness has led to such a vain existence.
Walking through the halls for two hours was like marching through a desert, searching in vain for a flowing spring of argument or works that would enliven my sense of the period.
That might be partially true, and admittedly what I used to think sheltering under an umbrella on a London street corner waiting (in vain) for a free taxi, but there is more going on.
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To me, an ornate primping station seems a little, well, vain: delovely in theory but, like a certain over-the-top sequined dress that hangs unworn in my closet, hard to pull off in practice.
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.
Latapy's deflected effort then slipped wide as both sides sought a late winner in vain.
Again and again, she interrupts a good narrative with vain and verbose harangues about corporate strategy.
"I'm vain to a certain degree, " he said when asked about the photo.
With 17 minutes remaining, Graham crossed for McArthur to head over as Accies searched in vain for a leveller.
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