Sentence examples for avail to from inspiring English sources

Johnson waited before making his move and tried to no avail to shake Taylor.

He and his son went, cup in hand — to no avail — to several Middle Eastern sovereign-wealth funds.

Mr. Vallone said he had tried, to no avail, to discuss the language with City Hall staff members.

He urged Mr Klein, to no avail, to give the industry more time to sort out the problem.

Hank Skinner has been pleading with the state since 2001 — to no avail — to test DNA evidence he believes will prove his innocence.

At the scene, he was briefed by detectives, who had gathered up nine empty.40-calibre shells and tried, to little avail, to interview possible witnesses.

Mr. Powell urged Ms. Burnett -- to no avail -- to reprise her ode to the nation's top diplomat before 200 guests in the Benjamin Franklin Room at the State Department.

It avails to design a measurement by using pulse streams involving optical solitons in storage rings.

Some chamber members went so far as to ask the village five years ago -- to no avail -- to limit the number of restaurants.

It will now have to decide whether it will use its air strikes - which it had stepped up in support of the Iraqi army at Ramadi to no avail - to back the Shia militias deep inside the Sunni heartland, inevitably helping the spread of Iranian influence and control.

Therefore, availing it to a larger section of the society.