Voorbeelden van vainly

• Faced with more and more cases, however, some councils vainly tried for a time to impose a permanent ban on a man who married outside.

• People began to call vainly for a moratorium on debt.

• I threw it away feeling sorry to have vainly destroyed a flower that looked beautiful in its proper place.

• The final section on educational implications includes three chapters in which the authors attempt, vaguely and vainly, to link research with practice and policy.

• The military tried vainly to reverse the situation.

• Yet if opera, and certainly grand tragic opera in the traditional sense, is to be anything, this is surely what it must, however vainly or wanly, attempt.

• It shan't spring vainly from the vine!

• I had hoped—evidently vainly—that it would be possible to keep the question of the national credit out of acute political controversy.