Sentence examples for naught he from inspiring English sources

Even though his trip was for naught, he was relieved, he said.

"With all the preparations and all the hoopla on TV, it was all for naught," he said.

Meanwhile, two years' labor on a mural for a Renzo Piano cathedral in Italy, commissioned by the Vatican, has gone for naught, he says disgustedly.

"I've come around to the view that if we don't stem human population growth then it's all for naught," he said.

"The mayor's office and Cup organizers have to answer the hard feasibility questions at our hearing on Dec. 1 or else this will be all for naught," he said.

"You can embrace the advanced, but if your customers who are the cable companies aren't rolling them out, it's all for naught," he said.

In the dark days of the early naughts he was a bright spot on the prairie, a star in the firmament.

But progress came to naught and he instead became embroiled in a scandal in which he allegedly tried to pay for dirt on a rival; allegations which finally cost him his job.This time around some headway seems to have been made.

His Robin Hood efforts came to naught, and he met a violent death.

"I don't want all the hype to go for naught because he has a bad outing.

It seemed that even this would come to naught, as he finished a disappointing fourth place in New Hampshire and Newt Gingrich won South Carolina.