In the end, though, what we got was less security, more fruitless interventions, and a region continually in chaos.
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Though these are important issues, they are also all potential justifications for yet more fruitless and expensive efforts to reshape the world.
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After three more fruitless tries, a countdown timer appeared on the screen, which made him wait a few seconds before he could try another PIN.
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There will probably be no more fruitless gesture of President Obama's lame-duck term than his fourth and likely final visit to Saudi Arabia last week.
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Kurt Severing, a journalist, finds that his efforts to expose the truth seem ever more fruitless against larger machinations that continue to turn regardless of public opinion.
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Though he knew he should have walked into the sunset right then and there, he carried on for five more fruitless days, then picked a meaningless fight with ownership so he'd have an excuse to quit.
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Last year's near-unprecedented playoff run, in which he dissected opponents with a reservoir of step backs, side-step threes, and furiously technical footwork that made defending him in space feel like one of the more fruitless duties in basketball, helped bring us here.
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Ultimately, a few more fruitless days passed, after which she exchanged patrol areas with Haddock on 7 March.
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After more fruitless searching, Jack decides to return to Miss Durrant's community. Bill meets a young girl, Susan and she accompanies him. Finally, he recalls that Jo had spoken of a place belonging to her friends in the Sussex Downs. There he is reunited with her and after erecting a protective fence around the farm to keep out the Triffids, they settle down and start raising a family.
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Under the management of Paul Sturrock, Alex Smith and then Paul Hegarty, the club regularly fought against relegation from the Scottish Premier League. Eddie Thompson purchased the club in 2002 and installed Ian McCall as manager, leading to their first top-half finish for seven years in 2004, but their form slumped again the following year, leading to McCall's dismissal and two more fruitless reigns under Gordon Chisholm and former club hero Craig Brewster. In 1997–98, United reached the League Cup final, but lost 3–0 to Celtic. United reached their first Scottish Cup final for eleven years in 2004–05, only to be beaten by Celtic again, 1–0.
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The order of the episodes are radically altered, however, and the story begins with the father and son carrying the ass between them so that it will arrive fresh for sale at market. The laughter of bystanders causes him to set it free and subsequent remarks have them changing places until the miller loses patience and decides he will only suit himself in future, for "Doubt not but tongues will have their talk" whatever the circumstances. Earlier on he had reflected that 'He's mad who hopes to please the whole world and his brother'. Robert Dodsley draws the same conclusion in his version of 1764: 'there cannot be a more fruitless attempt than to endeavour to please all mankind',Select fables of Esop and other fabulists, part 2.1, pp.
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