Sentence examples for naught have from inspiring English sources

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"I understand their anger, I understand that their efforts, coming to naught, have caused them great frustration.

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Optical engineers say that advances in electronics in the last ten years would have been for naught had there not been comparable advances with lenses.

Risen adds, significantly, "such efforts would have come to naught had many southern business communities not been eager to put Jim Crow behind them".

The collapse of communism, he believes, has unjustly wiped away all the decades of achievement by left-leaning activists in every social sphere: "I think what the 90s and the naughts have done, by turning identity politics into lifestyle, is to detach that from the Marxist politics and move it into the realm of individual choice.

But his push may be for naught: Americans have become allergic to spending.

Despite the lack of convictions, Ms. Mosby, 36, argued that her work had not been for naught; there have been police department reforms, and the city is "one step closer to equality".

"If it all comes to naught, we have discussed the possibility of resigning," he says.

To set something at naught you first have to recognise it and doubts about the euro, it seems, have simply failed to register with most EU leaders.

By John E. Gibson The New Yorker, January 6 , 1945P. 52 From people who have naught to say View Article By Alan Burdick By Charles Bethea By Phil Klay By Larissa MacFarquhar.

The New Yorker, January 6 , 1945P. 52 From people who have naught to say View Article Trump's Lawyers Argue That He Cannot Be Impeached Because He Was Never Actually Elected What Happens When a Bad-Tempered, Distractible Doofus Runs an Empire?

Maybe that's part of why there is no fornication; there is only lewdness, and not much of that, either, because no one has legs, for the sons of Adam and the daughters of Eve have naught but limbs.

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