Sentence examples for vain aim from inspiring English sources

There were a few misplaced moves in the artistic sphere, too, with certain releases suffering from overproduction in a vain aim to appeal to a rock audience.

I watched Joel Johnson slowly degrade into a pile of rage as he navigated Aol's support staff in vain to get his AIM account back.

The emperor Zeno gave him the title of patrician and the office of master of the soldiers and even appointed him as consul in 484; but in vain efforts to achieve his aims Theodoric frequently ravaged the imperial provinces and actually threatened Constantinople itself.

Soldiers leapt from the beds of their pickup trucks, aiming their weapons into the dense treeline in a vain effort to find a target.

"Never have so many crustaceans died in vain," he whooped.Today the party's aims are similar to persuade sceptical voters that it can be entrusted with the economy but not identical.

That approach contrasts with the strategy tried, in vain, under two decades of international negotiations aimed at building a comprehensive and binding treaty, and, in the United States, a lost decade aimed at passing a "comprehensive" climate bill.

This pressure contributed to the recent declaration by Eduard Shevardnadze, Georgia's president, that his country may drop its (vain) hope of becoming a NATO member and instead aim at neutral status.

It followed a long, desperate night in which Mr. Wahid, 61, sought in vain to block the session by issuing a decree aimed at shutting down the legislature and calling new elections.

And he acknowledged the risk of further social media publicity "aimed at making the court's injunction seem vain".

Their supporters aimed to stir up tribal animosity against the court in vain, since ordinary Kenyans still seem to back it.

While leaders stressed that the paramount aim was to save lives, Thursday's summit focused mainly on security in what looked like a vain attempt to stem the flow of refugees from north Africa.