Sentence examples for vain battle from inspiring English sources
In 1970, he moved to Westland, where he spent the rest of his career in an increasingly vain battle to build the helicopter company's commercial viability.
At most, a conservative desire to reserve the word "marriage" for the heterosexual pertains.Tim Berney HoustonThe German roots of EnglishSIR – Your article about "the vain battle to promote German" concluded that, "if alien words could kill, English might not have survived the Norman conquest" ("Signs of the Zeitgeist", May 29th).
But also the celebrity of her life was enhanced by the fact that it seemed to many to be a tragedy of the classical sort: ill-starred despite all its privileges, sliding into a marital collapse beset by depression and other mental illness, a struggle against the restraints and pomposities of the royal family, a vain battle for private romance amid the public gaze.
She artfully portrayed his vain wife, who consorts with shallow lovers in a futile battle against age.
That said, the descriptions of the trashed countryside are hauntingly evocative and there is a real sense of pathos in the way that Jay, his mind increasingly adrift, tries in vain to battle the pitiless elements.
But Sunday's 40km bike leg clearly took too much out of him and, while he tried in vain to battle the pain, he quickly faded on the run – meaning he also dropped off the podium in the overall world title standings.
South Africa returned to the scene of the crime three years later, this time under Pollock – Cronje having been rumbled the previous year – and were beaten by 246 runs after collapsing for 128 in their second innings on the last day, with three wickets each for Warne and Glenn McGrath, and Kallis fighting a brave, but vain, rearguard battle.
In Britain, the mnemonic for the color spectrum is "Richard of York gave battle in vain".
(Richard Of York Gave Battle In Vain).
Or easier: Richard Of York Gave Battle In Vain.
Anagrams, such as Richard Of York Gave Battle In Vain (the colours of the spectrum) or Polly Bought Everyone Rice (the principles of design - pattern, colour, texture, line), are a brilliant way to remember things and if you can relate it to the topic, all the better.
