Sentence examples for vain promises from inspiring English sources
And Richard makes vain promises to nearly everyone.
In that pre-internet age, I sat down to write down all the words and try to make sense of them ("all these vain promises on beauty jars").
Tired of vain promises and empty slogans, students and pupils around the world, including in South Africa, Kenya, Senegal, Ghana, Nigeria and Uganda, organised a series of rallies and events last week asking their governments to take, without delay, the decisions needed to contain climate destabilisation.
But he believed it with weakening conviction; he could see all the arguments for considering humanism a vain promise.
"To say that the Congress may withdraw or ignore that pledge is to assume that the Constitution contemplates a vain promise; a pledge having no other sanction than the pleasure and convenience of the pledgor," reads the opinion, delivered by Chief Justice Charles Evans Hughes.
"No one at Vodafone could tell me why, and daily phone calls to its service centre yielded vain daily promises to resolve it," he said.
We wait in vain for the promised pivot.
Not in vain is my promise that I shall ever lighten your burden.
Her hero is Nick, a peasant boy who is forced to toil for Sir Nestor the Nasty, who is a man everything his name promises: cruel, vain, lazy and so ugly that babies cry when they see him.
