Sentence examples for once unsuccessfully from inspiring English sources

He reminisced about James Galanos, the Los Angeles couturier, whom he once, unsuccessfully, hit up for a job.

Or the fact that he once unsuccessfully attempted to woo rural voters by recounting his skill as a hunter of "small varmints".

As an elected official, twice successfully and once unsuccessfully, I learned far more from not becoming mayor of Atlanta than I did being vice mayor for seven years.

Alexandra Wrage, a governance consultant who once unsuccessfully attempted to help overhaul FIFA's methods, famously labeled the organization "byzantine and impenetrable".

Partly to offer a critique of the "poor literary style" of the judge's verdict, Nosaka stood for election twice for the Upper House of the Diet, the second time successfully, and once, unsuccessfully, for the Lower House.

Brown's rotation includes Tyrus Thomas (fell out of favor with the Bulls), Larry Hughes (traded by the woeful Knicks to the hapless Kings and released), D. J. Augustin (many felt the Bobcats should have drafted center Brook Lopez and Tyson Chandlerr (traded by the Hornets twice, once unsuccessfully and once successfully).

(He once ran unsuccessfully for the Republican nomination for governor of Massachusetts).

Ms. Nyad attempted this swim once before, unsuccessfully, in 1978 at the age of 28.

Where they once tried, unsuccessfully, to compete with digital devices, toy makers are co-opting them.

The man, Bruce Mendenhall, 56, once ran unsuccessfully for mayor of Albion, Ill., where he lives.

But that was overturned on appeal, forcing the family to turn, once again unsuccessfully, to the civil courts.