Sentence examples for make vain from inspiring English sources

Robert Fico, the prime minister, said that he was not in politics to make "vain gestures for [the sake of] gestures".

The city's football association has called on fans to behave, and stewards make vain attempts to encourage hard-core supporters to keep quiet during the national anthem.

As Republicans make vain attempts to improve their electoral appeal, they are unable to address the basic question: what would they do to help the American people?

These issues can result in false alarms (i.e., false positive and false negative errors) coming from medical diagnoses and leading to make vain efforts in actions taking.

And Richard makes vain promises to nearly everyone.

In his last years, Bolingbroke lacked any real political influence, though he still made vain efforts to create a patriot ministry.

In 1791 he returned to St . Petersburg where, along with his friend A.A. Bezborodko, he made vain efforts to overthrow Catherine's newest and last favourite, Platon Zubov.

Taking into account that we have fully recognized an increased quantity (quality) of the submitted papers (iii) and it has resulted in a higher number of accepted papers (ii), making vain the point relative to the citations (i).

So at a single breakfast event, he has violated at least two of the Ten Commandments--one that condemns making "vain" requests to God (e.g., for TV ratings) and another that prohibits putting some power (e.g., "hell") before the God to whom one prays.

Forty-four yeafterfteracece riots prompted Mayor Richard J. Daley to make that vain plea to President Lyndon B. Johnson, Mr. Daley's son Mayor Richard M. Daley spent much of the past week reacting furiously to the latest setback in his fight for gun control.

Does the Internet and social media make us vain?