Having lived so long under apartheid, he found himself searching in vain for playing-field entrances and facilities for nonwhites.
However, recommended preventive strategies of restricting excessive dietary sodium and fluid intake were found to be in vain.
On the one hand, we find her militating (in vain) to acquire stockpiles of the nerve gas sarin, for potential retaliatory use against the USSR.
ROOM SERVICE First, a warning: if you're not accustomed to in-room check-in, you may find yourself searching in vain for a nonexistent reception desk.
But still, with Houston on his way to the Olympic Games this summer, and very likely to gain an All-Star Game berth next month, he suddenly finds himself waving in vain for the ball.
But the firefighters who fought their way into Apartment 6B on the sixth floor found their efforts were in vain.
There are a number of images I have found myself searching for in vain: I could really use a disco ball, for example, and a gravestone that reads R.I.P., and a mosquito.
Vincenzo Bonomo said he had searched in vain and found only belongings of the dead, which included dozens of children.
In Vientiane, Laos, I found Hmong highlander women trying in vain to sell their fabulous quilted and appliqued work to Air America pilots.
PAGE A5 national A VICTORY, SORT OF, In a Chicago Struggle To their surprise, the workers who staged a six-day sit-in at a plant in Chicago after they were abruptly laid off found their efforts were not in vain.
