• 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.

    CENTERFORSECURITYPOLICY: Obamawar

  • 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.

    ECONOMIST: Divided Mali

  • We wind up with author, luminary, and longtime contributing editor Andrew Ferg-uson wandering the Web in vain search of, no, not love, but maybe just a reliable recommendation for osso buco.

    FORBES: Editor's Note

  • Yet, in the vain pursuit of a perfect intelligence organization, do not shake up intelligence in a way that does do harm - and in pursuit of this will-of-the-wisp, damage in particular those military capabilities that we alone possess.

    CENTERFORSECURITYPOLICY: 'First, do no harm'

  • But, given the swarm of vain consumers out there, hard proof may not be prerequisite for success.

    FORBES: Magazine Article

  • But given the swarm of vain consumers out there, hard proof may not be a prerequisite for success.

    FORBES: Technology

  • Owing to the small size of the mausoleum chapel, the mosaics do not create the impression of vain, cold pomp.

    NEWYORKER: See the Other Side

  • But for a year now, class-action lawyers, attorneys general, reporters, and housing advocates have searched in vain for multitudes of wronged homeowners and have come up largely empty-handed.

    FORBES: It's Time To Finalize The Robo-Signing Settlement

  • But over a long summer and autumn of Republican events - the convention, rallies, meetings in diners and homes - I searched in vain for any sign of them.

    BBC: US election: Republicans must change or die

  • 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.

    NEWYORKER: Bear Meat

  • By 1987, it had felt the full impact of the Thatcherite industrial revolution as the unions fought in vain to halt the tide of privatisation.

    BBC: Cornwall remembers Margaret Thatcher

  • 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.

    CNN: Focus on the DeCSS trial

  • Is there not something slightly absurd about the vain, aged machismo of The Expendibles 2, a movie about violent septuagenarian mercenaries?

    CNN: Can today's gonzo GOP celebs help Romney win?

  • Isaksson quickly gathered and hoofed the ball up the park as Rangers players complained in vain to the multitude of match officials who had failed to spot the infringement.

    BBC: Rangers 0-1 PSV Eindhoven (agg 0-1)

  • Still, those at the Fed are nothing if not hubristic, and they'll surely try in vain to be ahead of collapsing markets despite their inability to predict them in the past.

    FORBES: Magazine Article

  • For years, she had tried in vain to make sense of that moment of farewell, but all she could recall was two heads bobbing before vanishing under the boat, the linked arms of two other friends, and a wave from Meimei, the youngest of the six, as she sank beneath the surface.

    NEWYORKER: Alone

  • 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.

    FORBES: Marketing vs. Economics: Gymnastics or High-Wire Act?

  • And if you read the closing arguments of the members of the House Judiciary Committee, you will search in vain for any specific reference to many of these new allegations which are the subject of Article I.

    CNN

  • World War I stood out for its millions of seemingly in vain battlefield deaths.

    FORBES: True Catastrophes

  • Flintoff bowled flat-out in St John's as England chased victory in vain on the final day of the third Test but he was in visible distress because of the injury.

    BBC: Flintoff to return home from tour

  • 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.

    WSJ: Light Years: Conceptual Art and the Photograph, 1964-1977 | Snapshot of a Movement | By Richard B. Woodward

  • But it waited in vain, with the exception of a massive tome by Guenther Grass, which many possess but few seem to have read, most authors have been strangly silent on the subject.

    BBC: Post-unification novel divides Germany

  • Lots of men are having manicures, not just guys who are really vain and spend three or four hours in front of the mirror.

    BBC: A gin and tonic is no longer up-to-date malaria protection

  • 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.

    NPR: 'The Childhood Of Christ' In Concert

  • But Mbu was first to strike, glancing an inswinging Scott McBride corner towards goal and, despite the efforts of Richard Walker who tried in vain to keep the ball out at the far post, the ball ended up in the back of the net.

    BBC: Brechin 0-3 Cowdenbeath (0-3)

  • Iniesta may have been an injury doubt prior to this final, but there was little evidence of fitness problems as he produced a virtuoso demonstration of the modern midfield arts, leaving United to chase in vain in an attempt to regain possession for the latter stages of the opening half.

    BBC: Barcelona 2-0 Man Utd

  • But they are afraid of spending money in vain attempts that won't work.

    WSJ: Americans oppose paying for storm-ravaged beaches

  • The Philippines' Mrs Arroyo has in vain suggested holding a crisis summit of the Asian countries on its margins.

    ECONOMIST: Asia and the crisis

  • 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.

    ECONOMIST: Too soon to celebrate | The

  • 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.

    NEWYORKER: Best Worst Movie

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