Sentence examples for vain labor from inspiring English sources

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As one character puts it concisely, "We Spanish have fewer tears than reasons to weep, for it is a vain labor to offer light to the blind, words to the deaf, science to the ignorant, and honor to monarchs".

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It was in 1591 that the Jesuits, having after vain labors abandoned the Atlantic coast, first entered Sinaloa to heal the wounds made by the conquerors, and to gather together, convert, and civilize the remains of the native population.

But, the Guinnesses do not labor in vain.

"If the Lord does not build a house, in vain do its builders labor".

The glib alluring notion that spins through 80 minutes of contentious dialogue is that beneath the surface of civilized behavior lurks an unquenchable animal impulse, a principle of aggression we labor in vain to suppress.

The long investigation by court and counsel was, indeed, labor in vain if, at last, riparian rights possessed by the lotowners should be decided not to be private property within the protection of the Constitution.

Several dozen pens inside hold the animals — chain link for the deer and emu; metal walls for the warthogs and bobcats; wire mesh for the tamarin monkeys and chickens — as a round-the-clock crew of zookeepers labor in vain to create an atmosphere of normalcy.

Defendants' more recent practice of evading CompuServe's filters by disguising the origin of their messages commandeers even more computer resources because CompuServe's computers are forced to store undeliverable e-mail messages and labor in vain to return the messages to an address that does not exist.

Henrik Rafaelsen, the first of three actors who play Peer Gynt at various stages in his life, brings a capering impishness to the early comic scenes, but he and the two performers who follow him (Endre Hellestveit and Sverre Bentzen) labor in vain to fully transmit the character's geniality, impulsiveness and appealing obstreperousness in the context of Mr. Wilson's pristinely articulated imagery.

In general, Lucretius says, human labor is vain and the development of the arts led to misery and war (5.1430 ff).

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