After he was fired last May, two other principals grappled unsuccessfully with the problems he left behind before Ms. Ivkovic took charge.
"It could have been me!" I think as I watch pensioners grappling unsuccessfully with pogo sticks and dogs running into glass doors.
This has had obvious implications for the music industry, which still grapples unsuccessfully with the copyright and marketing issues implicit in the technology.
The experience of managers grappling, sometimes unsuccessfully, with ever-increasing amounts of data and sophisticated analytics is often more the rule than the exception.
Mel Gibson (Australian) grappled with it unsuccessfully as William Wallace in Braveheart; Liam Neeson (Irish) made a decent stab at it in Rob Roy; and the cast of Brigadoon (American) well and truly massacred it.
Unfortunately, patients with diabetes have a widely variable clinical response, both within and between individuals, which often leaves clinicians unsuccessfully grappling with these nonlinear behaviors and responses.
Which, not coincidentally, was the thing that he unsuccessfully grappled with in his foreshortened governorship.
After about the age of 10, when I unsuccessfully attempted to grapple with a heavy hardback of Wuthering Heights, I had banished all Victorian novels to the back of my book shelf.
The Irish Protestant church was successfully disestablished in 1869, and a first attempt to grapple with oppressive landlordism in Ireland was made unsuccessfully in 1870; abroad, an attempt to promote disarmament in 1868 failed when Bismarck refused to consider it.
Blood smears across Silva's face and blinds him as he grapples, kicks and punches furiously at his Mexican rival, unsuccessfully fending off repeated blows to his head.
Apparently unsuccessfully.
