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He asked her again in the vain hope that he could persuade her to come(= it was impossible).

A tight noseband is a vain attempt to disguise the fact that your horse is not ready for the things you are asking him to do.

For if he had not hoped that they that were slain should rise again, it would have seemed superfluous and vain to pray for the dead.

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

An attempt to preserve life in a state of neutrality and indifference, is unreasonable and vain.

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.

The United States attorney-general is suing her as she sits, in a vain attempt to make her dissolve herself into constituent companies.

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.

For want of a bit of incriminating proof was such a young, silent, vain crook as this to be allowed to escape?

He was a man of a good and kindly nature, a little vain and self-important, but earnest and upright, and possessed of very fair abilities.

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.

'Oh, if she's vain, Billy Smallbury, I'll never be able to look at her! I'm such a shy man, as you know! 'said the other.

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

Last week, Twitter co-founder Biz Stone said the media mogul was engaged in a vain attempt to "put the genie back in the bottle" .

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.

But others, which were preserved naturally in dry sand, prove the product must also have been used in everyday life by the vain Egyptians.

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

While the count was being turned over, one of his arms dragged helplessly behind, and he made a vain effort to pull it after him.

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.

"Betty" seems to be just a gimmick, to be used in a vain , to win some unnecessary criticism and saliva.

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

What was present to him everywhere was that for a man who had known what he had known the world was vulgar and vain.

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.

After a hurried and vain endeavour to thrust it in a drawer, she was forced to place it, open as it was, upon a table.

Married, no matter how vain and he was forthright, he thought first of you and your children, rather than his face.

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

It makes me sad, missing her when watching shows that smiling face, my heart did not like the sustenance like, mind empty and vain.

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.

He lifted his voice against the whirlwind, shouting louder and louder in a vain desire to hear himself speak.

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

Jackson said he had not received any negative feedback about his pithy comments, which he hoped were being taken in the proper vain.

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.

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

If anyone thinks himself to be religious and yet does not bridle his tongue but deceives his heart, this one's religion is vain.

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

But surely if a man's world be the sum of his sensible perceptions, he has no reason to be vain of such a world.

Trying to deconstruct why I do it, I'm not afraid to say that I'm at least a little vain, I wouldn't appear on television if I wasn't.

The poor husband begged in a vain desire to let him in, but the angry wife refused to open the door.

Then Jephthah fled from his brethren, and dwelt in the land of Tob: and there were gathered vain men to Jephthah, and went out with him.

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.

Knowing that you were not redeemed with corruptible things as gold or silver, from your vain conversation of the tradition of your fathers.

As he was of high birth and of a showy person, the vain Julia was not so much in love as to be insensible to his attentions.

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.

They began to panic the four she, in a vain attempt to discover the vast sea of humanity lives lover.

The hapless lynx turns and twists in a vain attempt to throw its pursuer off the chase, but the hunter will not be denied.

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.

If it remains a while uncertain to whom the merit belongs, someone more vain than yourself may be encouraged to claim it.

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

As a girl Mary was vain, and this C. defect in her character led to her ruin in later life.

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.

Vain was that ambition, surely not an ignoble one, to set his name beside those of Gibbon and Mommsen.

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.

He involved himself in what he always knew was a vain struggle to retain the lies .

It marked, further, the decay or going to pieces of his moral nature, a vain thing and a handicap in the ruthless struggle for existence.

That scab union was a tool used by the capitalists in their vain attempt to damp down the labour movement.

Take special note of verse 30: "Charm is deceitful, and beauty is vain, but a woman who fears the Lord is to be praised. "

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.

And if any man think himself to be religious, not bridling his tongue, but deceiving his own heart, this man's religion is vain.

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.

Archer's lips stiffened; he felt a savage impulse to dash his fist into the long vain handsome face at his side.

Roosevelt found the German leader "vain as a peacock, " and resistant to his warnings about militarism.

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.

He was vain of that unwavering obstinacy which no influence of love or pity had ever been known to bend from its remorseless purpose.

Movie directors are known for being vain, autocratic and egomaniacal , but the curious nature of their art form also makes them invisible.

(BBC News) A new study suggests dolphins are more intelligent than we thought and a great deal more 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.

In an essay written in 1663 he apologised for his curiosity about this "empty, vain and deceitful study" .

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.

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

Army Corps of confusion in the whole, in a vain attempt to put the world under the rule of the king.

The aery but vain felling have no, saving only of that continues to long for to also become memory.

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.

Those without umbrellas had covered their heads with plastic bags, towels and books in a vain attempt to stay dry.

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

Owing to the small size of the mausoleum chapel, the mosaics do not create the impression of vain, cold pomp.

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

No wonder man to say, lady vain, in fact, to some extent, a woman who was also been spoilt by a man, isn't it?

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?

Do nothing out of selfish ambition or vain conceit, but in humility consider others better than yourselves.

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).

'She must be rather vain, 'he thought. 'She doesn't need to look in that mirror at all!

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

Let no man deceive you with vain words. For because of these things cometh the anger of God upon the children of unbelief.

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.

The strain of the situation was too much for her, however. She made one more vain effort and then burst into tears.

Mrs. Rushworth was that kind of woman: foolish, vain, and clandestine by nature.

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.

If we do not achieve a healthy global economic recovery, hope of a co-operative relationship is likely to prove vain.

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

The writer in this tradition toils in the hope (probably vain) of reversing more than a hundred and fifty years of gardening history.

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

I may go so far As to say that I have not lived wholly in vain. If my record were closed tonight I could still survey it with equanimity.

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

Another way that people use language to hide their ideas in a vain attempt to sound impressive is to write in a distant, impersonal tone.

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

She was very handsome, but so proud and vain that she could not endure that anyone should surpass her in beauty.

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.

his last , supernatural efforts are vain , and both leaves of the door are noiselessly opened . it.

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.

He's excused himself to shut a door, a vain attempt to muffle the din of clashing light sabres and other frankly weird clanging noises.

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.

It was in the shape of a swan , so the vain swans insisted that it should be called swan lake.

Understand customers and meet their needs. Understand customer needs, just like walking in the dark, vain and not see the results.

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.

In her asleep state, Venus can be lazy, sluggish, vain and preoccupied with appearance.

A guy who checks out his reflection in every store window you pass is obviously vain.

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.

All other remedies against that pestilent distemper are vain, or at least uncertain.

"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.

vain for you to rise up early, to sit up late, to eat the bread of sorrows: [for] so he given his beloved sleep.

chase across the city in a vain attempt to find their lost son.

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

She's one of those habitually vain people who keep glancing at themselves in the mirror when they think no one's looking.

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.

Those who cultivate mathematics for its own sake are idle searchers given to a vain play of the spirit.

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.

Worldly learning, moral rules and various efforts controlled by consciousness are vain to make a man goes on the right way of practice.

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.

They are vain works, and worthy to be laughed at, in the time of their visitation they shall perish.

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.

He was in long pants and long sleeves shirt, all in a vain attempt to cover up his foolhardy acts of yester-years.

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

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

His wife wAS a much less pleASant person than he wAS, overdressed and AS vain AS a peacock.

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.

there was great beauty and infinite dignity, not the dignity achieved by man that seems so vain and arrogant.

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.

His mind teems with vain quiet, tranquilness , loneliness and non-action, so he becomes a ruler of a country.

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.

An horse is a vain thing for safety: neither shall he deliver any by his great strength.

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.

She wore gowns of silk and velvet made by Worth in Paris, with skirts short enough to expose her ankles, of which she was very vain.

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.

It seems a trifle cruel to be sexually molesting a mollusc to allow a vain human to have something shiny to dangle from their ears.

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!

A man without grace is as a vain fable, it shall be continually in the mouth of the unwise.

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.

cease , then , to allow yourself to be duped by vain hopes , that even your own excellent heart refuses to believe in.

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

The beautiful girl is vain and foolish, and yet he likes her.

Years ago, when I was a boy, you met me, flattered me, and taught me to be vain of my good looks.