She's endorsed the gun control measures sought in vain by Obama after the Sandy Hook massacre, including universal background checks.
And it may be a measure made in vain.
Without this measurement, all of the downstream measures are probably in vain.
These mild measures, however, were in vain; the Meletians joined the Arians and caused more dissension than ever, being among the worst enemies of Athanasius.
For three hours, Bates spouted sense, bile and bigotry in about equal measure, with Susannah trying in vain to curb his use of the C-word.
"In spite of all of these measures," Cooper notes, "it was in vain that the Constituent Assembly and its Colonial Committee had hoped to save the colonies from danger of insurrections," (SFHR, 77).
Time, effort and funding in the form of institutional strategies and resources have gone towards ensuring graduates are employable upon graduation; the measures taken could equally be in vain if we do not have a coherent grasp of the discourse and how it shapes and continues to shape employability preparedness in higher education.
Visitors saw him standing there, alone amid the stone plaques and tablets, and they tried in vain to measure an emptiness so vast that no amount of yearning could fill it.
Galileo, like Tycho before him, tried in vain to measure the parallax of this new star, and then argued against the Aristotelian view of an immutable heavens.
One participant stated that although there was nothing really new regarding the measures taken to prevent falls, the project had not been in vain: Preventive actions are now taken with increased awareness.
