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 Szold, Henrietta

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 Francke, Kuno

So Providence moves on in his mysterious power to bring to naught the grandeur and power of rebellious nations—rebellious to those mighty moral laws which are as inexorable as the laws of nature.

From Ancient States and Empires by Lord, John

God will not suffer that bad things be stirred To mar us now, and bring to naught the word Himself hath spoke.

From The Iphigenia in Tauris of Euripides by Murray, Gilbert