Sentence examples for has been naught from inspiring English sources

A line will take us hours maybe; Yet if it does not seem a moment's thought, Our stitching and unstitching has been naught.

"A line will take us hours maybe; / Yet if it does not seem a moment's thought, / Our stitching and unstitching has been naught," wrote William Butler Yeats (1865 1939) about the creative process (1 ).

A poet like Yeats turned his first thoughts, often in prose, into verse that disguised the labor of its passage ("A line will take us hours maybe; / Yet if it does not seem a moment's thought, / Our stitching and unstitching has been naught").

Unity Theatre, Sat to 13 Feb LG In 1613, Susanna Hall, daughter of William Shakespeare and wife of the respected Stratford upon Avon physician Dr John Hall, brought an action for slander against a neighbour, John (here Jack Lanee, who had publically accused her of having gonorrhoea and having "been naught" with a local haberdasher called Rafe Smith.

None of this is to say that my crusade has been for naught.

It's an ugly time, and all of Obama's bipartisan outreach has been for naught.

House Democratic leaders held an early morning conference call yesterday with House Armed Services Committee Chairman Ike Skelton (D-Mo)., honing a new message: Of course an influx of U.S. troops has improved security in Iraq, but without any progress on political reconciliation, the sweat and blood of American forces has been for naught.

But the lobbying has been for naught.

All plans to build nuclear plants in parts of America where the electricity market has been deregulated are coming to naught.

Even if our military forces have made real progress of late, their sacrifices will have been for naught because our diplomatic strategy has been disconnected, anemic and ineffective.

Verizon Wireless has been plugging away on its own carefully-controlled mobile app store for years now — the carrier had planned to beef up the app discovery process with Chomp before Apple acquired the company, and it implemented new ESRB app content ratings not long ago — but now it looks like all that work may have been for naught.