But his boldness will come to naught if it is not followed up by efficient execution.
Until now, attempts to set up this sort of collaboration have come to naught.
The rush to increase profits has come to naught and in many cases led to financial disaster.
Myhrvold admits that many of the ideas that come out of the invention sessions come to naught.
Fortunately, these legislative efforts have heretofore come to naught and the original EAA was simply extended on an annual basis.
Republican hopes that Mr Bush would benefit from months of squabbling among his would-be Democratic rivals have come to naught.
All of this good work could, of course, come to naught if matters get out of hand in the Taiwan straits.
He tries, but in Godfather II his best efforts come to naught.
Mr Obama's oft-professed goal of capping America's emissions of greenhouse gases has come to naught, as has his talk of comprehensive immigration reform.
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From north to south, east to west, large swathes of the continent are at war, but almost all efforts at pacification have come to naught.
If all other safeguards have come to naught, can big financial institutions be allowed to go bust (or be saved without asking taxpayers to stump up)?
It just goes to show once again: The best of intentions often come to naught in the absence of respect for what's right and a bit of modesty.
Perhaps all of that money you just spent buying your domain name from some identity speculator will come to naught because soon maybe nobody will care what your domain name is.
And without a lessening of hostility across the world's most heavily fortified border, efforts to negotiate a peace treaty for the peninsula and to bribe North Korea into giving up its nuclear weapons ambitions may come to naught.
If so, honeyed words from the mouths of European leaders about needing and wanting Serbia will count for naught and a strategy of containment will come to the fore.
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