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“Live for yourself and you will live in vain.
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#1012744
Cén daoine?" "Vain mé an toghkhán.
#1783636
It’s in vain that we tried to increase its wealth by commerce and trade.
#1125992
When one hears such high excellence of singing, one searches in vain for praise that won’t seem incompetent or patronising’ (i gcló ag Mac Con Iomaire).
#1133060
On his return for dinner his well-filled note book was evidence that his journey was not in vain.
#1767143
Oh no, no, said the little Fly, to ask me is in vain, For who goes up your winding stair, can ne’er come down again.
#1783635
It’s been in vain that we’ve tried to enhance the fame of our countries in arts and sciences.
#288105
Mar deir sí: “Anyone who dismisses beauty and make-up as mere frippery, an irrelevance pursued by the vain, frankly knows nothing about women.” Baineann sí úsaid as nath cainte cliste mar thús ar gach caibidil; ceann le pearsa aitheanta ar nós Coco Chanel, Cindy Crawford, agus go fiú Kurt Cobain.
#290621
5. Má tá tú réidh leis an arm Béarla amárach agus ardaitheoir an bhratach glas thar Caisleán Bhaile Átha Cliath, ach amháin má leagtar tú faoin eagraíocht Phoblacht Shóisialach do chuid iarrachtaí a bheadh i vain.
#720919
Tá macalla na bhfocal sin in alt Connolly [‘Nationalism and Socialism’] ar an Shan Van Vocht: “If you could remove the English army tomorrow and hoist the green flag over Dublin Castle, unless you set about the organisation of the Socialist Republic, your efforts would be in vain” [Shan Van Vocht, Eanáir 1897].
#1117775
Bernard Govrani will be looked for in vain in the published list of seventeenth century Frankfort printers while the comforting device superiorum permissu was employed to allay the misgivings of the scrupulously-minded’ (Ó Fionnagáin).
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Deir an chéad údar “nous savons peu de choses de l’eschatologies des Celtes” agus deir sise “one searches in vain for traces of those vast conceptions of the origin and final destiny of the world which dominate other Indo- European mythologies.” Labhair siad le húdarás, nach ndearna – ach tá an chuma air go raibh siad aineolach ar an Ghaeilge nó ag brath ar fhoinsí tánaisteacha (neamh- Ghaelacha).
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He must surely now resign… Mendacious, conceited, vain, duplicitous, wholly unfit for office.’ Ní foláir tagairt ag an bpointe seo don easaontas oscailte a léiríonn urlabhraithe an Lucht Oibre agus an Breatimeacht á phlé.
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The girls from St Mary’s Training College had sought in vain for a floodlit training area on grass to sharpen up ahead of Saturday’s Purcell Cup semi-final against college rivals Queen’s…’ Dúirt bainisteoir Linfield ag an am, David Jeffrey: ‘Thank God to get the opportunity to get close to our friends who play camogie.’ Is trua nach mbeidh lucht leanúna na gCeilteach i bPáirc Windsor don chluiche – an iarraidh seo.
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Dar le Synge gur fhág an bhochtaineacht nach raibh an dara rogha ag mórán daoine ach dul ar imirce ach bhí sé den tuairim go raibh a thuilleadh ann a raibh cúis eile acu an bád bán a thabhairt orthu féin: “…in place where there have been much improvement the younger and brighter men and girls get ambitions which they cannot satisfy in this country, and so they go also.” Bhí ardmholadh aige do Chonradh na Gaeilge: “For the present, the Gaelic League is probably doing more than any other movement to check this terrible evil, and yet one fears that when the people realise in five, or perhaps in ten, years that this hope of restoring a lost language is a vain one, the last result will be a new kind of hopelessness and many crowded ships leaving Queenstown and Galway.”