From this we learn that, although Pius's defenders still say that he paid a golden ransom in a vain effort to save Rome's Jews from transportation to the death camps, the most he did was indicate a willingness to chip in if the Jews could not raise the sum demanded.

In vain, the King urged Conservative leaders Balfour and Lord Lansdowne to pass the Budget ( Lord Esher advised that this was not unusual, as Queen Victoria had helped to broker agreement between the two Houses over Irish disestablishment in 1869 and the Third Reform Act in 1884 ), although on Asquith's advice he did not offer them an election ( at which, to judge from recent by-elections, they were likely to gain seats ) as a reward for doing so.

Yet, even now, and particularly after the Regensburg Conference had proved in vain, the Emperor did not cease to insist on convening the council, the final result of his insistence being the Council of Trent, which, after several postponements, was finally convoked by the bull Laetare Hierusalem, 15 March 1545.

In vain did Rib-Addi send touching appeals for aid to the distant Pharaoh, who was far too engaged in his religious innovations to attend to such messages.

The film did however cause a rift between real life brothers Steve Antin and Jonathon Antin as Jonathon was insulted over the film's close resemblance to their own family and how the character Brent Zetterland was depicted as vapid, vain, oafish and slow.

Anton de Bary invented the concept of symbiosis ; several Russian biologists promoted the idea ; Edwin Wilson mentioned it in his text The Cell ; as did Ivan Emmanuel Wallin in his Symbionticism and the origin of species ; and there was a brief mention by Julian Huxley in 1930 ; all in vain because sufficient evidence was lacking.

In vain did they expect support from their British allies, which had not even lined up for the battle, because the British and Russian commanders had neglected to synchronize their clocks.

His hair was yellowish, but did not hang down to his waist like that of the other barbarians ; for the man was not inordinately vain of his hair, but had it cut short to the ears.

Francis Asbury was a vain person, he did not like having his portrait done or to hear good things about himself.

In vain did he plead that he was the king.

The cause of this he did not long seek in vain ; thirteen times the mean motion of Venus is so nearly equal to eight times that of Earth that the difference amounts to only a small fraction of Earth's mean motion, and from the fact that the term depending on this difference, although very small in itself, receives in the integration of the differential equations a multiplier of about 2, 200, 000, Airy was led to infer the existence of a sensible inequality extending over 240 years ( Phil.

In vain did Rouher try to meet the Liberal opposition by organising a party for the defence of the Empire, the Union dynastique.

On 8 February 1871 he was elected a member of the National Assembly, in which he maintained that the republic was " the necessary form of national sovereignty ", and voted for the continuation of the war ; yet, though a leftist, he did not sympathize with the Paris Commune, and exerted his influence in vain on the side of moderation.

Indicative of his centrist leanings, Macleod established good personal relations with several of his Labour opposite numbers, including both Aneurin Bevan and James Callaghan, even though he clashed with Callaghan numerous times at the dispatch box while serving as Shadow Chancellor in the 1960s ( by contrast, he did not get on with Callaghan's successor, Roy Jenkins, after the November 1967 government reshuffle, considering him vain and arrogant ).

Pyrrhus, king of Epirus, Macedonia's western neighbour, was a general of mercurial ability, widely renowned for his bravery, but he did not apply his talents sensibly and often snatched after vain hopes, so that Antigonus used to compare him to a dice player, who had excellent throws, but did not know how to use them.

All in vain, for from the castle they shot some of our men and horses which did much enrage and provoke the rest to a fierce revenge.

Surrealism helped Carpentier to see contexts and aspects, especially those of American life, which he did not see before and after working among the leading artistic figures for some time, Carpentier did not feel overly enthusiastic about his work within surrealism and had felt that his “ surrealist attempts ha been in vain ” describing his frustration, as he felt he had “ nothing to add to this movement in France ".

With the death of Melanie Wilkes, she realizes her pursuit of Ashley was in vain and he did not return her affection.

In vain did the Hindu sepoys show the most chilling indifference to the belauded restoration.

The shogun's wife did everything she could to dissuade Tsunayoshi from continuing with such potentially divisive and dangerous plans ; and when it became clear that her persuasive arguments were in vain, she resolutely sacrificed herself for the good of the country — she killed her husband and then killed herself.

Rumours that he had misappropriated £ 400, 000 during his eight years in the job did little to help his reputation as vain and mercenary.

An eccentric workaholic, Potemkin was vain and a great lover of jewelry ( a taste he did not always remember to pay for ), but he disliked sycophancy and was sensitive about his appearance, particularly his lost eye.

Distracted by the renewed war with Nicaea, and waiting in vain for assistance from Pope Honorius III and the King of France Philip II, the Latin Empire was unable to prevent the final fall of Thessalonica to Epirus in 1224.

He now sought in vain to secure a modification of the tenth article of the Augsburg Confession, but when the position of the Upper Germans was officially rejected, Philip left the Diet directing his representatives manfully to uphold the Protestant position, and to keep general, not particular, interests constantly in view.

He first attached himself to Alberoni, and after the fall of that minister he became the agent of Elizabeth Farnese, the restless and intriguing wife of Philip V. Though perfectly unscrupulous in money matters, and of a singularly vain and blustering disposition, he did understand commercial questions, and he had the merit of having pointed out that the poverty of Spain was mainly due to the neglect of its agriculture.

Thaddeus Stevens vehemently opposed President Johnson's plans for an abrupt end to Reconstruction, insisting that Reconstruction must " revolutionize Southern institutions, habits, and manners … The foundations of their institutions … must be broken up and relaid, or all our blood and treasure have been spent in vain.

Their families hunted them down and forcefully tried to make them give up their plans – in vain.

Rather than repairing it, two consecutive owners tried in vain to build high-rise shopping on the lot ; the buildings and gardens were bulldozed and cleared but neighbors and a citizen's committee fought successfully against city approval of high-rise plans.

The shogun's wife did everything she could to dissuade Tsunayoshi from continuing with such potentially divisive and dangerous plans ; and when it became clear that her persuasive arguments were in vain, she resolutely sacrificed herself for the good of the country — she killed her husband and then killed herself.

In vain his mind groped to reassemble the bones of the relationships he had sought so desperately, but they would not come to life.

I had for some time been hoping, in vain, for one of the dim figures to pass between the fan vents and myself.

Galileo announced his discovery that Venus had phases like the Moon in the form " Haec immatura a me iam frustra leguntur-oy " ( Latin: These immature ones have already been read in vain by me-oy ), that is, when rearranged, " Cynthiae figuras aemulatur Mater Amorum " ( Latin: The Mother of Loves Venus imitates the figures of Cynthia the moon ).

The remark does not make it clear if Adalvard found the city destroyed or if that had happened after his visit and the later remark was just to warn the future pilgrims not to go there anymore in vain.

During the course of the second Labour government, Attlee had become increasingly disillusioned by Ramsay MacDonald, whom he came to regard as vain and incompetent, and later wrote scathingly of him in his autobiography.

His friend Farkas Wolfgang Bolyai with whom Gauss had sworn " brotherhood and the banner of truth " as a student, had tried in vain for many years to prove the parallel postulate from Euclid's other axioms of geometry.

They decided to make him a totally different character ; instead of the wacky, comic relief character he had been, they turned Daffy into a vain, egomaniacal prima donna wanting to steal the spotlight from Bugs Bunny.

By the first days of January, Emperor Menelik, accompanied by his Queen Taytu Betul, had led large forces into Tigray, and besieged the Italians for 15 days ( 6 – 21 January 1896 ), trying in vain to storm the fort on several occasions, until the Italians surrendered with permission from the Italian Headquarters.

On 27 February 1914, two days after his death, the Daily Graphic recalled Tenniel: " He had an influence on the political feeling of this time which is hardly measurable … While Tenniel was drawing them ( his subjects ), we always looked to the Punch cartoon to crystallize the national and international situation, and the popular feeling about it — and never looked in vain.

He later wrote of how he " rejoiced at my good fortune in stumbling upon an object so interesting in the natural history of the earth, and which I had been long looking for in vain.

In 1700, Rømer managed to get the king to introduce the Gregorian calendar in Denmark-Norway — something Tycho Brahe had argued for in vain a hundred years earlier.

The Sicilians had elected Peter III of Aragon as their king and sought papal confirmation in vain, though they were willing to reconfirm Sicily as a vassal state of the papacy.

Prime Minister Youlou then held the elections for which Opangault had previously asked in vain.

The members of these caravans had, in vain, besought his mercy by reciting the truce between the Muslims and the Crusaders, but he ignored this and insulted their prophet Muhammad before murdering and torturing a number of them.

And as his understanding sought in vain for an explanation and his heart was filled with perplexity at the great novelty of this vision, the marks of nails began to appear in his hands and feet, just as he had seen them slightly earlier in the crucified man above him.

They were quite startled in the morning when they had found out that their efforts were not in vain – Frossard had abandoned his position on the heights.

González's cousin Marisleysis said González told her the motor had broken on the boat and its passengers had tried in vain to bail out the water with nylon bags, but that a storm doomed their efforts.

For a short time it became the capital of a self-governing federation of the Heptanesos (" Seven Islands "), under Ottoman suzerainty ; in 1807 after the Treaty of Tilsit its faction-ridden government was again replaced by a French administration under governor François-Xavier Donzelot, and in 1809 it was besieged in vain by a British fleet, which had taken all the other Ionian islands.

The Latin term gloria roughly means boasting, although its English cognate-glory-has come to have an exclusively positive meaning ; historically, vain roughly meant futile, but by the 14th century had come to have the strong narcissistic undertones, of irrelevant accuracy, that it retains today.

When pipe-turf cannot be got conveniently, a good wedge drain may answer well, when the subsoil is a strong, stiff clay ; but if the subsoil be only moderately so, a thorn train, with couples below, will do still better ; and if the subsoil is very sandy, except pipes can be had, it is in vain to attempt under-training the fiel d by any other method.