Sentence examples for vain sacrifice from inspiring English sources

"It's always a seller's market," growled someone who was obviously filled with resentment at the vain sacrifice of her lunch hour.

As the violence grows, one hopes that Betancourt's campaign will not prove to have been one more vain sacrifice at the altar of Colombia's salvation.

She refers to "the monks' considered but suicidal decision," to their "collective decision in favor of a considered yet senseless death and a vain sacrifice," and adds, "The martyrdom of these monks martyrdom consisting, in principle, of letting oneself be killed to bear witness to faith is all the more striking inasmuch as the film is not mystical".

Bush said the lives of U.S. armed forces were not lost in vain – "their sacrifice was worth honoring, not depreciating" – but that given the intelligence failures that have since been established, he would not have led the country into war in Iraq.

On the contrary, it only demoralised the soldiers, who heard nothing but another terrible threat: new suffering, great dangers, the prospect of an awful death in a vain and useless sacrifice, because no one trusted the outcome of this new butchery".

In vain all the sacrifices & deprivations, in vain the hunger & thirst of endless month... .. View Article By Rivka Galchen By Jia Tolentino By Zoë Heller By Malcolm Gladwell.

"I will never agree that people made their sacrifice in vain," he said.

He said he'd fought in the 1980-88 Iraq war, his brother was a martyr, and now his youth seemed wasted and the nation's sacrifice in vain.

Would their financial sacrifice be in vain?

The marines' sacrifice was in vain because, in the end, we gained nothing.

We can't let their sacrifice be in vain". This was the Columbia's 28th mission -- its first, in 1981, launched the space shuttle program -- and it had already been hailed as a scientific success.