Word: vainly
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...That's a lot of credibility to throw away on false distinctions, vain pipe dreams and reprehensible misstatements about the Democratic Party and the importance of this election. So, in the interest of helping you decide how to mark that ballot--no matter if you are from Massachusetts or Texas or Minnesota--let me bring you a few points of clarification on Ralph Nader's Green Party candidacy...
...they had begun discussing compromises. "Once you put them on the table, you have to go full speed to reach an agreement," says Judith Kipper, director of the Middle East Forum at the Council on Foreign Relations. Instead, the administration took a breather for two months and tried in vain to enlist Arab leaders in pressuring Arafat to compromise. The intermission gave time for Arafat to brood, for the Palestinian streets to come to a boil, and for hard-liners to move...
With all the time in the world and plenty of traffic in front to screen her intentions, Naida fired a hard shot towards the left corner of the goal. A Harvard defender who had been guarding the left post tried in vain to stop the shot, which deflected up and into...
Most quarterbacks would have been caught flat-footed and obliterated by the unblocked defensemen. Others would have tried in vain to scramble from the inevitable collision...
...Palestinians converged on the station, brushed past Arafat?s officers and beat the Israelis to death. The salient point is that when confronted by an angry Palestinian mob, the local police were incapable of restraining them - although they fired into the air in vain hope of dispersing the mob, once forced to choose between killing fellow Palestinians or allowing Israeli captives to die, the requirements of the peace process came a poor second for Arafat?s police. It?s a sign that no matter what his intention, the failures of the peace process and the rising tide of conflict...