When the Batson case was decided, Justice Marshall filed a concurring opinion that hailed the "historic step" in ending racial discrimination in criminal trials but warned that it would prove unavailing.
Attempts to reach General Cantwell for comment proved unavailing last night.
And this too, thus far, has proved unavailing with regard to malaria.
When talks with Mr. Fiddler proved unavailing, the almanac sued, apparently unconcerned that such litigiousness would have made Robert Frost frown.
O'Connell canceled the meeting to avoid the risk of bloodshed; his method of popular agitation within the law thus proved unavailing, and his influence thereafter rapidly declined.
Pharmaceutical remedies having proved unavailing, her physician suggested marijuana, which has worked well enough to afford her something like a normal life.
When these overcautious tactics proved unavailing, Milyukov swung sharply to the left and, on November 14 , 1916 delivered a powerful speech in the chamber implying that the government was guilty of treason.
However, inquiring about the meaning of some custom will often prove unavailing because natives may be reticent about explaining themselves to strangers, or they may have little practice looking at their own culture analytically.
If there were a valid and subsisting special contract, that would control; but where, though an attempt has been made to bring about such a contract, it has proved unavailing, the attempted contract is ordinarily of no consequence save as it shows the expectation of the parties that compensation for the services was to be made.
To recap: a studious political-science Ph.D. wishes to instruct the upper echelon of American leadership in the benefits of reading several thousand pages of history, and, after his initial efforts prove unavailing, assigns a carefully curated set of course materials to the most august institution in American journalism.
In the last resort, if all else prove unavailing, we must see if p327 we can show that the action adduced as a parallel was itself unjustifiable.
