Sentence examples for Unavailing effort from inspiring English sources

Maskell's MI5 interrogator offers him the analogy of religious confession in an unavailing effort to prompt him to reveal more.

For the latter, quotas are "condescending palliatives".In an unavailing effort to placate critics, the government has said that it will increase the total number of places in colleges, to ensure that no qualified student is worse off.

The last prayer meeting dissolved when T. Lucus Piddle said "darn" after three hours of unavailing effort at his counterpane.

The jogger case was the second of his unavailing efforts.

This described the seemingly unavailing efforts of the Marxist rulers in Tirana to forge an Albanian nationality out of highland Gegs and southerly Tosks.

By the time the Warsaw-born Tuszynska encountered her, Gran's unavailing efforts to clear her name had turned her into a bitter recluse.

It somehow becomes lodged, and the consequent paroxysms, and the lackey's unavailing efforts to extract the thing, do tear-making justice to Sterne's conception.

His unavailing efforts to solicit quality writing for the Overland Monthly eventually led him to simply mock with overblown verse the mentality of the uncritical writers of the American West.

Hugh's reign was marked by the unavailing efforts of Charles of Lorraine (imprisoned 991) to assert himself and by continual conflict between Eudes I, count of Blois, and Fulk Nerra of Anjou, whom Hugh later supported.

The meeting was delayed by unavailing efforts to bring about an armistice first (the armistice eventually took effect from May 12), by the difficulty of securing the representation of the German Confederation (which was not a signatory of the Treaty of London), and by Bismarck's deliberate effort to postpone the opening until Prussia and Austria were in possession of all of Denmark.

Her online attacks against the censors, and her unavailing attempt to sue them, were widely supported by Chinese internet commentators.