in vain造句怎么写

Why do the nations conspire and the peoples plot in vain?

On two successive nights they tried in vain to seize a knoll that lay between their position and monastery hill .

Vain man, said she, that dost in vain assay A mortal thing so to immortalize; For I myself shall like to this decay, And eek my name be wiped out likewise.

Another African summit, another disappointment. Any hope that the change of leadership in South Africa might bring change across the border in Zimbabwe has proved in vain.

But unless he manages to pacify the people of the Delta and so secure its pipelines and refineries, the reforms will be in vain.

Since the dawn of biblical archaeology, scholars have sought in vain to verify that there really was an Abraham, a Moses, an Exodus, a conquest of Jericho.

Therefore, my beloved brethren, be ye stedfast, unmoveable, always abounding in the work of the Lord, forasmuch as ye know that your labour is not in vain in the Lord.

The only verdict is vengeance, a vendetta held as a votive not in vain, for the value and veracity of such shall one day vindicate the vigilant and the virtuous.

From the age of two, a friend of mine went with his mother every month to the Abu Salim prison, hoping in vain to see his father, who was imprisoned there.

All his father's exhortations were in vain.

They had tried, but in vain, to drag him out.

he looked for her in vain; the city fathers tried vainly to find a solution.

After resorting in vain to screwdrivers and pliers, I decided to call a locksmith shop.

Some of the biggest names in technology, including Microsoft, Yahoo and AOL, have tried in vain to popularize music subscriptions, yet new efforts keep emerging.

For this reason, Christianity is anti-wisdom: wisdom tells us that our efforts are in vain, that everything ends in chaos, while Christianity madly insists on the impossible.

To make himself the one trusted friend, to whom should be confided all the fear, the remorse, the agony, the ineffectual repentance, the backward rush of sinful thoughts, expelled in vain!

My efforts were not in vain.

Then my living shall not be in vain.

The eyes try in vain to perceive anything but drops of light and colors trembling on the lashes.

Some say that so many had perished during its construction, that no one dared halt the work and thereby admit that it had all been in vain.

They tried to rally the pound sterling but in vain.

By which also ye are saved, if ye keep in memory what I preached unto you, unless ye have believed in vain.

The former US President Bill Clinton's rivals wanted to impeach him but in vain.

If the kids find their grandparents' language uncool, all of the well-intentioned outside help by linguists is usually in vain, except for preserving the language as a museum-piece.