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Sony would have little recourse, having no desktop business to leverage, and Valve's own attempts to cross the console divide have been largely abortive.

Following largely abortive talks with Wilson, the Rhodesian Prime Minister flew home on 12 October.

The first he achieved in just over two years, thanks largely to the abortive Anglo-French invasion in October, 1956, at Suez.

Meanwhile, the war with Poland remained largely in abeyance, although in 1617 Gustav sent an abortive expedition to seize the fortification of Dünamünde outside Riga (in present-day Latvia).

Mao was largely responsible for encouraging the peasants and miners to make the abortive Autumn Harvest Uprising of 1927.

Mr. Gamal, who became a broker and property manager with Soho Properties after an abortive college career and several brushes with the law, has largely retreated behind the scenes since the imam's return to New York.

Some evidence suggest that cells may undergo abortive infection when expressing the BZLF1 (Zebra) protein only, but this largely relies on in vitro data.

Despite the trauma of frontman Tim Smith's decision to leave the band late last year, after an abortive attempt to follow up 2010's The Courage of Others, Antiphon finds Texans Midlake picking up largely where they left off, with guitarist Eric Pulido now handling vocals.

After abortive sessions with Emeli Sandé's producer Naughty Boy ended in much-publicised bad blood, this record now largely bears the sophisticated stamp of Frank Ocean's producer James Malay HoHo.

Efforts by Swedes and Prussians proved abortive.

There have been abortive attempts so far.