in a vain bidの例文

• The rebel leader spent several months in Rome in a vain bid to win political asylum.
• He tried no less than eight bowlers in a vain bid to stem the tide of Sri Lankan runs.
• G鰎ing ordered that they be renamed " offensive circles " in a vain bid to improve rapidly declining morale.
• Ward invested $ 250, 000 over the past year in a vain bid to keep the facility afloat.
• The money was channelled through other companies in a vain bid to keep Tan's ailing Carrian Group afloat.
• Protesters, many of them openly weeping, also chained themselves to trees in a vain bid to stop them being felled.
• Cobb reached the conclusion that Faubus had exaggerated the likelihood that segregationists would engage in violence in a vain bid to block desegregation.
• Sinclair and Bright last month arranged a preview for ex-guerillas and other establishment figures in a vain bid to appease their anger.
• In a vain bid to regain the office last year, Walesa got barely 1 percent of the vote in a crowded field of contenders.
• But the loss of top players in a vain bid to wipe out mounting debts has sent the team tumbling down to the foot of the Premier League.
• Last fall, Frankel was on his way to an Eclipse Award and getting ready to start six horses in a vain bid for his first Breeders'Cup victory.
• Such tendencies were evident when a columnist asked Gates over ice cream why Microsoft had hired a lobbyist in a vain bid to get Congress to cut Klein's operating budget.
• Three time Champion Hurdle winner Istabraq, who was pulled up in a vain bid to create history as the first horse to win the race four times, has been retired.
• She's been here for years and years and doesn't harm anyone, " said Sally Warren, who climbed onto the car in a vain bid to stop the council removing it.
• In 1987, Gee joined nine legislative colleagues in filing suit against Edwards in a vain bid to halt what the lawmakers saw as continued runaway state spending, which was adversely affecting both the general fund and dedicated accounts.
• In testimony at London's Snaresbrook Crown Court witnesses said interior designer Lyon McCann, 27, had run toward the double-decker bus in a vain bid to board it seconds after it had pulled away from Euston Station in central London.
• Microsoft lawyers spent much of the morning session in a bench conference with U . S . District Judge Thomas Penfield Jackson in a vain bid to keep the trust-busters from releasing the Gates excerpts played in court to the nation's TV screens.
• Swedes are reluctant to commit to the ERM partly because of painful memories of a 1992 ERM crisis that forced the country to sever the krona's link to the European currency unit, even after driving up the overnight interest rate to 500 percent in a vain bid to make its currency more attractive to investors.
• He was one of the few in his circle who could comprehend the decision of one of his best friends, Denmark Groover III, to enlist, and he enlisted himself, perhaps in a vain bid to save his father's US Senate seat . ( Three decades later, the younger Gore would face rejection from Tennessee voters .)