But his efforts were in vain as his side lost their last five wickets for 17 runs, with Sujeewa de Silva and off-spinner Thilan Samaraweera claiming four wickets apiece.
"Please know his death was not in vain, his story reached all corners of the world, " wrote Rena Gerlach from Portland, Oregon.
After spending his fortune in vain and coming up diamondless, he takes his own life.
All we can hope and pray for is that he hasn't lost his life in vain.
"I'm getting tired of catching no fish, " said Robert Strazi, a 23-year-old mackerel enthusiast, as he cast his line in vain off Pensacola Beach's 1, 471-foot fishing pier, flanked by just two other anglers.
"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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The Old Courthouse, where Dred Scott sued in vain for his freedom in 1847, still stands.
Our community organizer waits in vain for his share.
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That signalled something of a collapse with Akmal, Tanvir and Rehman all falling in quick succession and though Butt continued to smash the ball around the park, his efforts were in vain.
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.
Maurice Edu tried to force his way past Wilson and the Rangers players claimed in vain that the Celtic defender had used his arm to block the ball's path but referee Thomson again waved play on.
Mr Hughes, a teacher from Cheslyn Hay, Staffordshire, jumped from a third-floor window after trying in vain to save his mother.
Some premature celebrating by Roberts allowed Dragons full-back Martyn Thomas to make up some ground, but his desperate dive proved in vain.
The Grammy-nominated artist worked with six record labels over 11 years trying in vain to get his music out, all the while toiling away by singing background or writing hits for other artists like D'Angelo and Tupac.
As a way of asserting that his medical studies (a concession to his physician father) were in vain, Berlioz threw himself out the window of a dissecting lab.
Since America itself has rejected it, his efforts seem likely to be in vain.
At least, it can be argued, the general should now offer his explanations and, even if in vain, ask forgiveness.
People from the other tables had gone to bed: in the sudden silence we distinctly heard the deep roar of a serac, like the bones of a giant trying in vain to turn over in his bed of rock.
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.
In vain has Mr Bildt tramped Sweden since his return, touring the countryside and especially the north, where support for the Moderates is thin.
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.
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.
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.
His service, life and premature death will never be in vain.
"I'm afraid I'm never going to see David again, " says his business partner, Ancle Hsu, 42, who works in vain from Los Angeles forJi's release.
"I'm afraid I'm never going to see David again, " says his business partner, Ancle Hsu, 42, who works in vain from Los Angeles for Ji's release.
"He wasn't very vain, he was more interested in relationships, " his father, Tom Teves, told reporters Saturday before entering Corpus Christi Catholic Church for the service.
But his hopes of co-ordinating a new centre-left opposition may prove vain.
Federer was increasingly forced into mistakes as he tried in vain to finish off the rallies quickly, with Murray finding a consistent depth with his groundstrokes and scrambling brilliantly, and after an errant call denied the Swiss at 1-2 and break point down, he then hammered a forehand into the tramlines on the replayed point.
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