Sentence examples for vain revolt from inspiring English sources
Morally unbearable to see a human being reduced to a subjectless reflex system, to witness the vain revolt of organs against the body, nature rising against herself without for all that inventing a way, albeit diminished, to continue to live.
In Gizab, however, residents waited in vain after the revolt for the government to exert control, said Martine van Bijlert, an Uruzgan expert with the Afghanistan Analysts Network.
This has been done in vain, as the revolting youth refuse to be distracted by the old empty slogans and contrived excuses of those in power that suggest that chaos will dominate in their absence should they be ousted from power.
In a vain effort to prevent the revolt, he sailed for Ireland on April 12 in a German submarine.
The measure has passed the House, where Democrats walked out in a revolt in May, fleeing to Oklahoma in a vain attempt to block a Republican drive for enactment.
During this period revolts broke out in Constantinople and Anatolia, and a series of grand viziers sought in vain to solve the empire's financial crisis.
