bring to naught
Example Sentences
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Say, He shall vindicate the Cause through the potency of His command and shall bring to naught all perversion of truth by virtue of His behest.
From Selections From the Writings of the Báb by Báb
O Lord of the world, as Thou didst not suffer Laban to execute his evil designs against me, so also bring to naught the purpose of Esau, who desireth to slay me.
From The Legends of the Jews — Volume 1 by Henrietta Szold
Did I not long ago Adjure you to return unto the court And bring to naught the plotting of my foes!—
From The German Classics of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, Volume 06 Masterpieces of German Literature Translated into English. in Twenty Volumes by Kuno Francke
For pestilence and famine make people good and rich; but war and wicked rulers bring to naught everything that has to do with temporal and eternal possessions.
From A Treatise on Good Works by Martin Luther
If he could search out and bring to naught such a conspiracy as Merriman's story indicated, he would be a made man.
From The Pit Prop Syndicate by Freeman Wills Crofts
