Sentence examples for worked in vain from inspiring English sources

She stopped drinking and worked, in vain, to repair her relationship with her mother.

The conflicting figures were incomprehensible and disorienting, said the president: "Could it be we've worked in vain?

We read about all this with wonder, and a feeling that Marconi and the Wright Brothers had not worked in vain.

"This was the most historic part of the old city," says Irfan al-Alawi, executive director of the UK-based Islamic Heritage Research Foundation, who has worked in vain to raise the profile of his country's historic sites.

For years, Veselago worked in vain to find or create a material with the remarkable electromagnetic properties his formulas predicted.

We hereby resolve that previous generations shall not have worked in vain.

"Zion blood is flowing through my veins, and I can never work in vain".

This means that both my assistants and I have not been working in vain for so many years.

"We did not work in vain these past three years," Dmitri Velikasov, a senior investigator, told the Federal Press news agency.

Ted Lurie 7 29 AND NOTHING'S WELL I rush to work in vain (It's late when I arrive) When my 7 30 train Leaves at 7 45.

And here she has done it all, serving as producer, director, cinematographer and editor, pointing her camera at the survivors of rape and sexual mutilation; at the doctors and advocates who work in vain to care for these women; and, most perilously of all, at the armed militia men perpetrating all the horror in the name of Congo's continuing civil war.