Sentence examples for will prove vain from inspiring English sources

But the CSRC's hope that an equities boom will bail out the industry without the need for hard reform will prove vain.

But, unfortunately, such hopes may well prove vain.

Therefore we conclude that we should carefully avoid these "convergence points" when we are trying to improve the performance of WF-LS with low orders by using WF-LS with higher orders, otherwise this goodwill will prove to be in vain.

"It was in vain" therefore that the Jesuits "obtained from Rome a decree against Galileo … That is not what will prove that the earth does not move; and if one had unchanging observations that proved that the earth revolves, all the men in the world could not stop it moving" (Provincial Letters: I, 813).

He will prove that".

That will prove tricky.

Who will prove smarter?

All this will prove testing.

Three things will prove critical.

"The facts will prove that".

He is a clever fellow, too, as the following anecdote will prove:—"The Emperor wished to illuminate the Alexander column in a grand style, the size of the round lamps was indicated, and the glasses bespoken at the St Petersburg manufactory, where the workmen exerted themselves in vain, and almost blew the breath out of their bodies in the endeavour to obtain the desired magnitude.