Sentence examples for generally in vain from inspiring English sources

Those who could move broke and ran, trying generally in vain, to outstrip the cloud which followed inexorably after them".

And to achieve that, it will need to implement the structural reforms that radicals have been calling for, generally in vain, over the past decade: more privatisation and competition, sounder banks, more deregulation.

Once this young pupa reaches teenagehood and early 20s, if they are a boy they will wear their jeans as low as possible, flaunting their bottoms, like young baboons, as part of their 24-hour desperate mating dance, which is generally in vain.

In any normal week of news, however, you can generally search in vain for a discussion here of Washington's "intervention" in Syria.

Mostly in vain, it seems.

These efforts were mostly in vain.

She wrote to Mary of "the dreadful state of mind I generally labour under & which I in vain endeavour to get rid of".

General Armstrong had not died in vain.

The appointment was generally well received, although the Protestant Truth Society sought in vain to prevent its confirmation.

But in vain.

Parker chased in vain.