Word: vaines
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...meeting with a group of victims’ families in her home. Meanwhile, the al-Akhrases address the complex ramifications of Ayat’s actions: They cannot say that what their daughter did is completely wrong—to do so would be to say she died in vain. The documentary’s strength lies in its implicit presentation of obstacles to peace, represented on a micro level through the mothers’ conversation. Medalia captures the sense of helplessness between them well. She edits the conversation so that it expresses the full range of emotions associated with...
...over a whole country. Call yourself some sort of political party, and the world's media will obligingly use this title, thus helping legitimize your crimes, as most notoriously happened in Germany in the early 1930s. The governments and diplomats of the world will talk to you in the vain belief that because you claim to be a political organization, this somehow means you are reasonable people. Meanwhile, you can abuse, torture, murder and rob the nation's people at will, as has happened on so many occasions in the past century. Is morality applicable only on a small scale...
...much for human wishes. Roberts, of all people, ought to have been more circumspect in trumpeting his plans to reform the vociferous court. His ambitions have so far been in vain. The warring factions of the Roberts court--and their pocked and smoking battlefields--have made his talk of self-effacing harmony seem obsolete. After a brief honeymoon of unanimous opinions in obscure cases, it is the same four Justices on the right and the same four on the left in one high-profile case after another, with Kennedy determining the law. Bombast, rhetorical excess and dueling opinions are thick...
...damage to his upraised arm. His lawyer's uniform of white shirt and black suit was soaked in blood, but he continued to shout anti-Musharraf slogans. "These things cannot stop us," he said. "We are ready to sacrifice more and more. Our blood will not be taken in vain...
...first campaign appearance after the initial wave of resignations, McCain-once known for his bipartisanship- blasted his Democratic opponents: "Democratic candidates for President will argue for the course of cutting our losses and withdrawing from the threat in the vain hope it will not follow us here. I cannot join them in such wishful and very dangerous thinking." Last month, McCain tried to enter the Obama-Clinton feud by attacking the Illinois Senator for his "naivete." And in last Sunday's presidential debate, McCain made sure that the audience knew he was a warrior: "I am fully prepared-fully prepared...