Sentence examples for vain endeavors from inspiring English sources

Initiatives, proposals and international conferences are all a waste of time and vain endeavors".

The Hamas Charter states that, "Initiatives, proposals and international conferences are all a waste of time and vain endeavors".

Fictionalizing a life that is already so surreal is usually a vain endeavor (Shakespeare is one of the few who regularly pulled it off); so it's best in reading Naslund's romance to think of it as a kind of "Forever Amber" punted across the channel from Restoration England to Versailles.

Almost 2,000 years later, in 1920, Shiites and Sunnis were killing each other in Mesopotamia, British officers were dying, and The Times of London wrote, "How much longer are valuable lives to be sacrificed in the vain endeavor to impose upon the Arab population an elaborate and expensive administration which they never asked for and do not want?" And then there was Napoleon.

But trying to be him, or just like him, would be a vain endeavor.

Barber opposed bringing in outsiders, citing delays in the preparation of the earlier gold coin designs which he attributed to the Saint-Gaudens studio: "it is entirely unnecessary to trouble Mr. Hering any further, unless another year is to be wasted in vain endeavor".

It was a futile endeavor.

The intergenerational endeavor has been in vain.

How vain.

Too vain.

Vain hope!