Meanings of vain resistance in English

The country had always offered a vain resistance; the Parliament of protestants against Spain.

After a vain resistance, he abandoned the city to its fate, and fled no one knew whither.

After some while spent in vain resistance, Bracciano submitted, and sent Vittoria back to her father's house.

After a vain resistance on the part of Milo's friends, the proposal was carried, Pompey threatening to use force if necessary.

No harm shall come to you-donot be afraid!-onlykindness is intended; therefore I beseech you do not persist in vain resistance.

Yet now, impassively and ignominiously, he was surrendering them to the conqueror, supinely, meanly, without even the solace of some supreme if vain resistance!

It was the work of one brutal moment to land the beautiful girl on the rock; she was too proud to offer a vain resistance.

There was a noise and spinning in my brain, a vain resistance to a dark green curtain that was falling, falling, falling, fold upon fold.

Self-preservation, therefore, the rule of nature, seems to be the best rule of conduct; what good can we do by vain resistance, by useless efforts?