But it is all in vain.

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The natural advantages which one country has over another in producing particular commodities are sometimes so great that it is acknowledged by all the world to be in vain to struggle with them.

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All they show, again, is that scientists can be nasty, vain, competitive, etc.

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All we can hope and pray for is that he hasn't lost his life in vain.

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"My dear child is dead, and all I want now is justice so I can close my eyes and know she didn't die in vain, " the mother, Syeda Mohammed Ali, told CNN.

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