Your efforts are futile.

Your efforts are futile.

Tom encouraged our efforts.

All those efforts came to nothing.

All the efforts went down the drain.

He also criticized Serbia s diplomacy efforts and concluded

Many thanks to the Bangladesh army rescue team for their efforts.

I was well rewarded for my efforts.

I don't feel that my endeavors have been appreciated.

He would go on to become a best selling author, publishing hundreds of books.

Starting off as Shylock, their determination soon paid off in the form of Kingpin.

Efforts to portray local cultures as unchanging often reflect reactionary political strategies rather than descriptions of reality.

Efforts to restrict people s movement between countries expose the soft underbelly of globalization the deepening gap between countries mean incomes.

It is, of course, easier to mock the attempts of organizations such as USAID to tackle poppy production than provide a viable solution.

Moreover, a balance of imbalance promoted a sense of equality.

The outcome is now, as it was then, an unprecedented decadence of the elite with no attempts whatsoever on deeper reaching reforms.

This does not mean that all efforts to build a more moral world are doomed. Having survived an age of extreme ideologies, such as capitalism, communism, and, recently, market fundamentalism, most people no longer seek answers in ideological clichés and the driving, purifying force of political certainty.

Transnational terrorism can only be confronted by close civilian cooperation such as intelligence sharing, police work across borders, and tracing financial flows.

This does not mean that all efforts to build a more moral world are doomed.

Instead of playing the Great Power Game in Africa, the EU can support Africans own efforts and allow them to benefit from the Union s experience.

To be sure, over eager military intelligence interrogators, as well as the Bush Administration's high handed attitude toward international law, helped precipitate the crisis.

As though it were second nature in French culture, the director presented Shylock's attempt to collect his pound of flesh by recalling the image of the crucifixion.

But, despite the pains my father had taken, the other designers expressed growing discontent about Korolev getting all the publicity, even if anonymously.

No matter how persuasive Abbas is in convincing radical groups to put down their arms, a unilateral ceasefire will not last long if it is not mutual.

To countries on the receiving end, these conditions can seem like a subtle form of power politics, with Europe trying to impose its values on the world.

The structure of service delivery and the funding of health services work to discourage professionals from the art of care giving, and can, in fact, undermine the practitioner s efforts.

To be sure, Europe gave Obama very little back for his pains, whether in terms of help in Afghanistan or support in stimulating the global economy.

Putin s efforts to transform Russia into a major energy power and use energy as a tool of Russian foreign policy make the region all the more strategically significant.

The major irony behind this statement lies with a fact that Jan Karski was being honored for his struggle to tell the outside world about the systematic murder of Jews in his country.

If successful, this crowd funding effort will help push forward a broader approach to eco tourism and toward a more participatory culture across the globe, as Filippo Borzotti says in an update on the crowd funding campaign

Grandma Anya, near the home of which a stork family has been living for already about twenty years in the village of Ivanovka in the Petrikovsky district, began to notice that the nest sags despite all the efforts of its inhabitants.

The strain of trying to meet this impossible standard of cool curiosity about one s own fate imposes an unbearable distance between the scientist of the body and mind, and the body and mind of the scientist.

She remembered her first efforts to conquer the repulsion she felt for him, as for all consumptives, and her efforts to find something to say to him.

The views were finally corroborated by the Ministry's Standing Committee of National Board for Wildlife (NBWL) after deliberation on the numerous petitions they received and a site inspection.

Nevertheless, although President Putin is working to make it a more professional body than the Soviet era mass army, the officer corps retains a Bolshevik mind set barricaded against the intrusions of civilian criticism.

For starters, if the US had set out to destabilize Iraq, its efforts could hardly have been more successful ten years later, the country s viability as a single state has never been in greater doubt.

Nonetheless, if Japan chooses to move toward military normalization, it must demonstrate more convincingly that it has come to terms with its history or risk seeing that effort undermined unnecessarily.

Then she recalled Petrov's thin, emaciated figure in his brown coat, with his long neck, his thin, curly hair, his inquiring blue eyes which had at first seemed to her terrible, and his sickly efforts to appear vigorous and animated in her presence.