Sentence examples for vain terms from inspiring English sources

If your former significant other broke up with you on such vain terms, then they are not worth your time.

One searches in vain for the term in the interviews with some of the genre's crucial creators — Otto Preminger, Don Siegel, Fritz Lang, Robert Aldrich, and Edgar G. Ulmer — by Peter Bogdanovich in his great collection "Who the Devil Made It".

The defendant's lawyers had pleaded in vain for a reduced term on the grounds that the detonation hurt nobody apart from their client.

But it does not signify flat-out opposition to drastic, race-based redistribution.Mr Tsvangirai's apparent aim, rather than demanding in vain that the GPA's terms be met, is to entrench his MDC in government and prepare the road towards a fresh round of elections by the end of next year.

As for anarchism and feminism, the words sympathetic outsiders have applied to Rojava, I want so much to place quotation marks around these terms in a vain effort to reinvigorate their power and strangeness.

Staying may mean going down with a sinking ship, and Vohs is one of a long list of local politicians who've tried in vain to reverse the long-term trends affecting the region.

Letters are welcome via e-mail to [email protected] BarackSIR – Your leader summing up what Barack Obama needs to do "to make a convincing case" for a second term made a vain attempt at balanced analysis, and damned the president with faint praise ("Four more years?", September 1st).

Visiting goalkeeper Jamie Young got down well to save Chris Palmer's fierce drive as the hosts tried in vain to get themselves back on level terms.

And the work isn't in vain: Hazzard has much to teach, both in terms of her message and her craft.

Yet you would search in vain on Pontiac's Web site for a term to describe the Vibe.

I looked in vain for a definition of even so central a term as "clone".