Sentence examples for naught on from inspiring English sources

Think of all the human enthusiasm and energy expended for naught on those seven Tours de France won by Lance Armstrong and that no longer have a winner.

Two years of engagement with Alexander Lukashenko's regime, direct cooperation in the framework of the European Union's Eastern Partnership program, and gentle pressure to allow some space for democrats in the country came to naught on Dec. 19, when the police crushed a courageous mass protest against fraudulent elections.

It is not, he said, "the number of naughts on the end of a balance sheet".

The Women's World Cup continues in Germany, with the United States women professing no concern that many of their scoring chances went for naught early on, writes Jeff Carlisle on ESPN.com.

The government also plans a bill that would allow referendums on pending legislation, but this bill is no likelier to pass than a previous one.Even if any proposed changes come to naught, the debate on both issues suggests that German democracy is maturing.

Attempts to unite the Bolshevik and Menshevik factions came to naught, all breaking on Lenin's intransigent insistence that his conditions for reunification be adopted.

This week, the European press has been feeding on a new book from the diet guru Docteur Pierre Dukan, he who supposedly had Carole Middleton, in the run-up to the royal wedding, subsisting on naught but prawns and cottage cheese.

By Lauren Collins January 9 , 2012This week, the European press has been feeding on a new book from the diet guru Docteur Pierre Dukan, he who supposedly had Carole Middleton, in the run-up to the royal wedding, subsisting on naught but prawns and cottage cheese.

Earlier, opener Rutherford hit 36 off 19 to get the Essex innings off to a decent start, having been dropped by White at slip on naught.

But Ms. Levitan is predicting that many companies are holding on for naught.

That came to naught when a terrorist onslaught on the city of Mumbai was carried out by Pakistanis with, the evidence suggests, the help of Pakistan's spy service.In his 2009 book, "Deadly Embrace", Bruce Riedel, a former CIA analyst long at the centre of American decision-making about South Asia, told the unhappy story of America's relations with Pakistan.