in vain

Now grown up, for you; I am strong, and for you; I changed for you. I know it is all in vain!

Let me not grope in vain in the dark but keep my mind still in the faith that the day will break and truth will appear in its simplicity.

You must not come back, or else how can you leave me one? But there was no you, no matter how much happiness is all in vain.

Day after day he waited in vain for her to telephone him.

All our efforts to persuade the old man to leave the dangerous house were in vain.

We have been waiting for her to come back to see us, but (we have been waiting) in vain.

A Ghanaian family took him in temporarily, and Kwasi waited in vain to hear from his aunt.

The two halves on the Korean Peninsula have been trying to get reunited for several decades yet in vain.

I spent so much time on her, but it was all in vain.

Nowadays, you go around like this but it is certain to be refused everywhere. It is in vain for you to hold a great ambition.

Paddy jumped to his feet, his face stupefied; he had never heard Fee take the name of the Lord in vain before.

Schumacher almost edged Barrichello into the pit wall as he tried in vain to stop his former team mate passing him for P10 late in the race.

Often I even, in vain, desire to turn the mirror upside down and seek my own glory.

In vain I punished your people; they did not respond to correction. Your sword has devoured your prophets like a ravening lion.

But it was all in vain, and I had a feeling of the most dreadful, shameful failure.

Floyd Landis made several lame excuses blaming medicine he had been taking for an injury but these were all in vain.

He never once took the name of the lord his God in vain, committed adultery or coveted his neighbor's ass.

After trying in vain to control the unruly class, the young and inexperienced instructor had to admit that he was at eth end of his tether.

they comfort in vain: therefore they went their way as a flock, they were troubled, because [there was] no shepherd.

Since not accord with corruption to punish, there should be a statement. Don't let the public money wasted in vain at least.

Hartmut Mehdorn, Deutsche Bahn's chief executive, insisted in vain that the company's monitoring of staff was to fight corruption.

In the final chapter, "Markets Need Morals" , the reader looks in vain for a bit of detail about how such a code might be imposed.

In vain did they try to take the girl away from her mother.

We have held the subject up in every light of which it is capable; but it has been all in vain.

I care not one whit about the money, but I do not wish my arcane powers to be utilized in vain in a trivial battle.

and I saw myself, if I ventured nearer, dashed to death upon the rough shore, or spending my strength in vain to scale the beetling crags.

He was afraid to ask his mother to buy the choice colours, and was sure he should ask her in vain.

The only trouble was, no one could find them. Observers looked in vain for large amounts of cool gas and hordes of newly formed stars.

For a long time all his ponderings were in vain, then suddenly the scales seemed to fall from his eyes.

'We want to show you our commitment, ' he said. 'The time you have taken to come here will not be in vain. '

Outlining his government's programme to parliament, he said the sacrifices of the Greek people must not be in vain.

Our fervent discussion and opinion will be in vain unless we agree with and pursue what sort of content users genuinely care about.

and your strength shall be spent in vain; for your land shall not yield its increase, neither shall the trees of the land yield their fruit.

Jesus did not die in vain. The Spirit of God worked not in vain. The Father's eternal purposes shall not be frustrated.

eg. All his efforts to make up with his wife were in vain.

just as Jonah tried - in vain - to run away from his fate.

All the doctors' efforts to save the injured woman were in vain. She was declared dead three hours after being admitted to the hospital.

In vain they rush frantically round from place to place, trying to escape from avenging boredom by mere clatter and motion.

He loves to show off his wealth, but this is all in vain. People still avoid him as though he were poison.

If out of the ashes of Labour, Mr Osborne creates a self-reliant nation freed from benefit addiction, yesterday's pain will not be in vain.

In vain you light your toilet lamp--it flickers and goes out in the wind.

It was nearly time for the midnight prayers when Shamil, after waiting in vain, went back to his own quarters.

They are gathering together, demanding that your efforts to rise up in the face of brutality are not in vain.

So let me stroke your egos for a moment by pointing out, quite sincerely, that your diplomas were not attained in vain.

However his wife tried to maintain their relationship, it was in vain.

Maldives is the world's three great diving one of the Holy Land, to be here if there is no diving in vain to speak on the trip.

"But I hope that the love that people have shown will make you know he didn't live in vain, " he said.

I looked in vain for her I had first seen the night before; she was not visible.

The lion in vain to ask for it, Wolf, couldn testify to explain, and a jackal.

Mr. Darcy with grave propriety requested to be allowed the honour of her hand; but in vain.

I just wan't to leave a committed life behind. Then my living will not be in vain .

It was in vain that Thenardier sought to conceal himself in the branches; he could not prevent the man seeing him.

In vain have I struggled. its no good. i cant conquer my feelings. you must allow me to tell you how warmly i admire and love you.

The sigh of the shore follows in vain the breeze that hastens the ship across the sea.

It is all in vain if you cannot accept yourself and eliminate the feeling of guilt, self-hate, and self-reproach.

We then, as workers together with him, beseech you also that ye receive not the grace of God in vain.

The resources previously committed might have been committed in vain .

Your ostrich policy is in vain. Be a man and face up to the fact.

and any attempt to articulate the Absoluteness of such beauty would be in vain.

Self-confidence comes from his own bar, to encourage more people to give up himself it was only in vain.

Nothing you experienced will ever be in vain, for this I stand in with my presence as a creator son and sovereign of this universe.

The bachelor has waited patiently for his Mrs. Right to turn up all through his life in vain.

it will be readily believed by readers that mrs . norris did not write to her sister in vain.

Those who came to call me in vain have gone back in anger.

Let us beware lest our labour be in vain, because we do not wait for the teaching of the Spirit.

In vain by respectful condescension and kind flattery this matchless mother tried to soothe the sorrows of her daughter-in-law.

The farmer had looked all over for his pick, but in vain. It seemed to have vanished.

Even if somebody is not able to execute fully Krishna Consciousness, whatever amount of service he does it never goes in vain.

Speaking can be considered not in vain I saw standing there Yaosuanbeiteng the book in an afternoon.

The president said their sacrifice must not be in vain, and the cause of protecting freedom will never end.

Hail to the Prophet, ascended to heaven! Traitors and tyrants now fight him in vain.

Briefly out of a political job a decade ago, he trudged around China alone trying in vain to collect unpaid debts for Western firms.

Thou shalt not take the name of the Lord thy God in vain, for the Lord will not acquit anyone who misuses his name.

Do I understand you to mean that, since my search is the outcome of desire, and desire is transient, therefore my search is in vain?

I tried hard to reach my hand out for the book on the top of the shelf, but in vain.

Will she forever summon in vain to her assistance the lance of light of the ideal?

That does not make monuments sacrosanct (you will search in vain for a German military cemetery with a swastika).

He tried to struggle to his feet, but in vain.

Mr. Seymour tried in vain to make his wife change her mind. She offered a variety of excuses.

Making something without a clearly set goal is usually in vain.

I assist him to land a well-paid job, but he must needs stubbornly work as a teacher, so my effort is totally in vain.

Let nothing in heaven or earth or hell - let nothing keep thee from waiting on thy God in full assurance that it cannot be in vain.

The enemy attempted to win over uncle Chen, but it was in vain.

Kindness to others is never in vain. Even if the person indifferent, at least those who can benefit facilities.

Even if you are the most handsome bachelor or a pretty gal, all your attempts to date may have always ended up in vain.

He tried it again a third time, a fourth time, he must have lifted his foot ten times, but it was in vain.

And you, you bring me to my knees again. All the times that I could beg you please - in vain.

Let nothing move you. Always give yourselves fully to the work ofthe Lord, because you know that your labor in the Lord is not in vain.

Each night the man returned to his cabin sore and worn out, feeling that his whole day had been spent in vain.

There were once a man and a woman who had long in vain wished for a child.

There were once a man and a woman who had long in vain wished for a child.

Men has free choice. Otherwise counsels, exhortations, commands, prohibitions, rewards and punishments would be in vain.

But I was lucky enough to have a responsible teacher, believe that with the help of the teacher, I efforts won't be in vain.

We tried in vain up to persuade him tO give his wrong belief.

Day after day, she waited in vain for him to call her.

That afternoon, I had three FT maintenance men standing over the bike and trying in vain to smash the lock with wire cutters and a hacksaw.

the trouble, love-hate relationship made him confused. he tried in vain to forget her , But her angelic smile always.

It was in vain that the old lady asked her if she was aware she was speaking to Miss Pinkerton.

No friendship is useless and no day is in vain. Just as God has a purpose for sunshine and rain.

I wish that it would go and let me cry in vain, and let me be alone again.

In vain did we try to persuade her to give up her plan.

The prideful cat hunted around like a chicken with its head cut off in vain and finally left in dismay.

However, Nicaragua went on its own way and let the Carter administration's efforts in vain.

In vain Martin strove to shake him from his decision.

Tianming the not bright, moderate rain in the absence of wind freely falling down, and the sky is gray is the rain soak the ground in vain.

It was in vain that we tried to find his mother.

Her voice was beginning to rise and she tried in vain to control it.

Mr. Blake tried everything in vain to coax the useful information about their sales plan from his opponent's secretary.

But in vain did he rack his imagination; fertile as it was, he could not devise any plan for reaching the island without companionship.

I guarantee your quest will not be in vain and you will find the help you need and you too will travel your own "Journey of Light. "

But all this was in vain, and my repentance came too late.

Hundreds of people set out in boats, searching for the body, but in vain.

"Do not do that, Hedgehog. You will die! " Rose shrieks, tears running down her cheeks, but in vain to stop him.

Instead, they wait (in vain, perhaps) for a more usable product and switch to it.

But in vain do they worship Me, teaching as teachings the commandments of men.

How do ye say, We are wise, and the law of the LORD is with us? Lo, certainly in vain made he it; the pen of the scribes is in vain.

All of your efforts have been in vain, for the draining of the World Tree has already begun. Soon the heart of your world will beat no more.

It is in vain to attempt to make over this virile race on the model of our own.

I have plenty of insecurity about the quality of my parenting, but Bwana Beast did not die in vain.

You struggle in vain; no more human succor is possible.

Datch and another man gave him CPR for 5 minutes before paramedics arrived, but it would be in vain.

Your strength will be spent in vain, because your soil will not yield its crops, nor will the trees of the land yield their fruit.

Yet his sacrifice was not in vain. The Overmind itself was the prize of the battle.

But for some of the biggest housing markets in the country, those hopes look to be in vain this year.

They tried in vain to persuade her to go .

It is in vain that the old lady asked her if she was aware she was speaking to Miss Pinkerton.

We have held up our company in every light of which it is capable; but it has been all in vain. Today we have to declare bankruptcy.

If I can help one fainting robin unto his nest again, I shall not live in vain.

In the two decades since the farm job ended, he and two adult sons have tried in vain to reconnect the family to a Saudi paycheck.

It would be a shame if Mohamed Bouazizi and the others who have given their lives in the hope of a better life had done so in vain.

In vain, the company tried to extract information from the US authorities.

To receive it in vain is to receive it without intending to put it intopractice, or otherwise to abandon it at some point.

If the market jitters inject a sense of urgency, it will not be in vain.

Taking these steps will ensure your work is not in vain and leads to the next step in your Agile journey.

I have promised these, My loving servants and co-workers, an end to their suffering and I refuse to let that suffering be in vain.

In vain did she entreat him to stand up with somebody else , and offer to introduce him to any young lady in the room .

It now looks as if the reformers had labored in vain.

The mother crab tried in vain, then submitted without remonstrance to the reproof of her child.

Mr. Fotheringay struggled to get to his feet in vain and remained on all fours, holding on.

The police tried in vain to break up the protest meeting.

You'll be waiting in vain. I got nothing for you to gain.

On the other hand, Congmin bumps into Amy Zhou. He tries to beg her to return him a portion of his property, but in vain.

Without concerted citizen action to uphold them close to home, we shall look in vain for progress in the larger world.

All that I have done for you go in vain.

Unlike many men who lived long after, Henry Young did not die in vain.

he looked for her in vain; the city fathers tried vainly to find a solution.

He is now at the height of his enthusiasm. Whatever you say will be in vain.

Holding forth the word of life; that I may rejoice in the day of Christ, that I have not run in vain, neither laboured in vain.

In vain, equally, to tell myself that I could stay in bed later in the mornings.

The Mother tried in vain, and submitted without remonstrance to the reproof of her child.

All their attempts to rescue the child from the burning building were in vain.

no! By no means NO! I would not let you to reach your evil goal; million of warriors can not sacrifice in vain!

The first one is that the short life, if not in time, seize the day, would not come to one of life has been spent in vain?

The gained grain drained away with the rain, asl the pains were in vain the moment again.

We find that the teaching of "Modern Algebra" in many normal colleges are in the state of poor efficiency, even in vain.

Others search in vain in China's environmental movement for a democratic vanguard, in evidence during the last days of the Soviet Union.

Words have wooed yet failed to win her; persuasion has stretched to her its eager arms in vain.

It was the third time in two years that PCCW had tried in vain to sell its core telecom assets.

He lay below me till day, like a cat watching in vain for a mouse that has reached a place of safety.

He beat the bushes for his wife, but in vain.

One day, his neighbor Aunt Wang put the key at home and was locked out, many people came to help her, but in vain.

Any hope that the change of leadership in South Africa might bring change across the border in Zimbabwe has proved in vain.

My effort is not in vain in university for 3 years, time of guarantor grinds row middle , my name enumerates third in!

If I can stop one heart from breaking, I shall not live in vain.

Now, Western leaders and the Ukraine, with hopes of a few people apparently in vain.

The thief is trying to open the locked the door , but his attempt is in vain.

By this gospel you are saved, if you hold firmly to the word I preached to you. Otherwise, you have believed in vain.

These things don't count, not to the economists who have been trying in vain to fix the American economy.

It's in vain to ask the boss for a raise.

He had approached every friend and acquaintance for help in vain and he was at his wit's end.

i wish that it would go and let me cry in vain.

The vegetarian utilized a valid visa to make sense of the vague answer but in vain.

Some say that love is an investment and that makes some sense. So, boys don't want to spend too much money in vain.

When prayer so often proves in vain, hope seems like the summer birds, too swiftly flown away.

For a long time, the mother waited in vain for an answer to her letter.

Although this may seem like a great deal of work, this effort is rarely in vain.

At Calais, he wandered for an hour through the deserted streets, and in the silent shops listened in vain to telephones that never rang.

He tried to persuade me to give up smoking, but in vain.

Through which also you are being saved, if you hold fast the word which I announced to you as the gospel, unless you have believed in vain.

One will watch "The Passion of the Christ" in vain for any hint of an answer to that question.

Thousands of people are packed tightly in trains. The men's face buried in their evening papers while women try in vain to knit.

They have chosen to "get in there where it hurts" , as my rugby coach used to encourage me, in vain, at school.

Even if the tail of 14cm has been a long time is very long, but the adults did not form the words of a good fan is also in vain.

We persuaded him to give up the plan of going abroad in vain.

What a shame! All my efforts turned out to be in vain.

I stood there, embarrassed and helpless, struggling in vain for the right thing to say.

"Be steadfast, unmoveable, always abounding in the work of the Lord, knowing that our labor is not in vain in the Lord" .

The skin suntanned , hold out thorn to ache. Can I come back in vain with milk bubble bath everyday? What method to have?

He tried in vain to remove ink stain from his clothes.

When he had waited some days in vain, he saw the innkeeper dressed in a new and handsome coat sitting before his door.

In vain, after these things , may we indulge the fond hope of peace and reconciliation. There is no longer any room for hope .

The persident said their sacrifice must not be in vain, and the cause of protecting freedom will never end.

All that study was in vain. I failed the exam.

The eight of us reconvened, advanced about half a kilometer, and repeated the search to both sides of the main track, in vain.

Therefore, as a man who has not thought and philosophised in vain, I seek no vengeance, plot no evil against thee.

Unfortunately, Prince Edward St Zhuangzhiweichou first dead body, which also led to the great cause of reform in vain.

is accepts or rejects? ? Holds a point of view "to deliver, does not eat the words waste, so-called does not eat does not eat in vain" ? ?

The Prince of Wales has had unsatiated curiosity about him, but in vain.

At last, having long waited in vain, he laid aside his flute, and casting his net into the sea, made an excellent haul of fish.

The old man thinks those who come to send anyway, do not play do not play in vain.

the hero, having sought in vain for peaceful admission into the dwelling of the hermit, proceeds to make good an entrance by force.

Do not tell me that the people in the streets of Bangkok and Bishkek and Tehran dream in vain of freedom and democracy.

If the poor countries do nothing, the rich countries argue, their own expensive efforts will be in vain.

So the various candidate languages were tried out-in vain.

You can't cross the sea merely by standing and staring at the water. Don't let yourself indulge in vain wishes. -------Tagore.

An old dog like him never barks in vain. Whenever he barks, he always has some wise counsel worth listening to.

As the saying goes: do not choose to work hard in vain.

She searched in vain for her passport.

His plans are a somewhat improved version of those that Mr Bush has proposed, in vain, for several years.

accommodate only have love, only love do not accommodate, and all are in vain.

Let not forget the victims of Pearl Harbor and Nanjing, for that they died in vain!

Ironically, in many cases the program may not care to even check the outcome of the SELECT INTO and the condition handlers work was in vain.

It was a bitter disappointment to them to be told that their toilsome journey had been made in vain.

His name is not to be said in vain under any circumstances.

I racked my memory in vain for its counterpart in literature; perhaps you could think of one.

or lest I be poor, and steal, and take the name of my God in vain.

They made great efforts to talk him into giving up the plan, but in vain.

Medieval alchemists hunted in vain for the rejuvenating Philosopher's Stone; industrial-age quacks got rich off their patent elixirs.

But if students cannot make it into Britain, such canny marketing is in vain.

Monday I tried in vain to make an argument for being great and winning you only needed two things, a great squad and good bis-management.

Since the incident, Reuters had tried in vain to obtain a copy of the video.

He had approached every friend and acquaintance for help in vain, and now he was at his wit's end.

The moon does not know how to drink her share; In vain my shadow follows me here and there.

I wanted to show my Heavenly Father that he should be glad he saved me, and that his grace was not poured on me in vain.

It may be that my remedies, so long administered in vain, begin now to take due effect.

Sales have fallen sharply, as developers wait in vain for demand to pick up rather than flogging their properties at a discount.

Third "You shall not take The Name of The Lord your God in vain; "

I pleaded for him in vain.

We stood without the gate and listened for the sound of his voice, but in vain.

in vain He wants the world to know his son did not die in vain.

Chemotherapy and radiotherapy were given, but in vain. The patient died of renal failure due to systemic metastasis.

Or will you bleed it out in vain?

These new "Suzhou were" only in the dumb founding in vain to bear the burden of these.

For the Egyptians shall help in vain, and to no purpose: therefore have I cried concerning this, Their strength is to sit still.

But, up to that epoch of my life, I had lived in vain.

Over the centuries, the Vatican has tried, often grudgingly and always in vain, to correct its Galileo gaffe.

When tea was over, Mr. Hurst reminded his sister-in-law of the card-table -- but in vain.

I say that all of our efforts have not been in vain and that WE have done the right thing by all involved.

I do not frustrate the grace of God: for if righteousness come by the law, then Christ is dead in vain.

Only his hands shaking in vain.

Go up into Gilead, and take balm, O virgin, the daughter of Egypt: in vain shalt thou use many medicines; for thou shalt not be cured.

This haughty beauty, whom the duke Orsino had loved so long in vain, at first sight conceived a passion for the supposed Page.

In the flood, he tried to save his son from drowning, but in vain .

He try to decieve his mother but in vain.

Go, then; for 'tis in vain to seek him here that means not to be found.

If all made a wish to save this star would it be in vain?

A thorough search has been carried out for the lost pilot, but it was in vain.

I had a real search for my wallet. But I did that in vain.

They shall not labour in vain, nor bring forth for trouble; for they are the seed of the blessed of the LORD, and their offspring with them.

Moreover, our eyes failed, looking in vain for help; from our towers we watched for a nation that could not save us.