— Then, Franklin's vain attempts to defend the typeface.
He dropped deep into the midfield in vain attempts to kick-start some offense.
After further vain attempts to contact the tank brigade, the sergeant called for a halt.
The international community should relinquish its "vain attempts to attain the unattainable two-state solution".
As Toni succumbs to his injuries, she halts Serge's vain attempts to resuscitate him.
And his account of his vain attempts to sell vacuum cleaners in the US as a young man is priceless.
Lin will continue learning as the Knicks' undisputed starter, despite the return of Baron Davis and vain attempts to stoke a point-guard controversy.
I usually wound up watching friends play, muttering over their shoulders in vain attempts to persuade them to play street hockey or Nerf football instead.
She grows up, absorbing her mother's loneliness and vain attempts to fill it (with booze, feminism, men) while differentiating herself and creating a few crises of her own.
"It's been a tough, emotional Six Nations," added O'Sullivan who nevertheless supported those late, vain attempts to widen the margin of victory.
Her position, I finally grasp, is in fact entirely coherent – far more so than my vain attempts to pin her down.
