Exempel på 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.

• He did not do so; and therefore my speech, aimed at attempting to persuade him, is somewhat vainly composed.

• Some of our main schemes are being held up to-day despite the fact that we have thousands of men vainly seeking for work.

• They look on, and they see that we are trying vainly to find schemes to employ people who have been thrown out of work.

• I do not intend to wait vaguely and vainly for no comment from them.

• There are too many tired waves vainly breaking in relation to these subjects.

• I have sat here for two consecutive days awaiting my opportunity, not altogether vainly, because there have been many valuable speeches.

• They have been trying vainly to find a home.