Edward strove, unsuccessfully, to restore the feudal army and strengthen local government institutions by compelling minor landowners to assume the duties of knighthood.
The production was marked by constant strife between Donen and Kelly, with much of it stemming from Donen striving unsuccessfully to include a ten-minute dance solo by Kidd, "Jack and the Space Giants".
The acclaimed journalist and Officer of The British Empire, pictured, was subject to the long arm of the law as police strove determinedly – but ultimately unsuccessfully – to prevent him brandishing potentially embarrassing documents on live television.
Simon then governed England by military dictatorship, striving unsuccessfully for a legal basis of consent, both by negotiations with Henry's supporters and by calling representatives of both shires and boroughs to Parliament (1265) to counterbalance his lack of baronial support.
In his boyhood he saw the Macedonian kingdom disintegrating while his elder brothers Alexander II and Perdiccas III, who each reigned for a few years, strove unsuccessfully against insubordination of their regional vassal princes, intervention of the strong Greek city Thebes, and invasion by the Illyrians of the northwest frontier.
As he strove to become a writer, submitting stories unsuccessfully to literary magazines, he earned a living by various short-term jobs: Covent Garden flower market porter, advertising copywriter, door-to-door encyclopedia salesman.
(He tried, unsuccessfully, to have it banned).
It sought unsuccessfully to sell the assets.
He even tried unsuccessfully to block publication.
Many animal models were used, unsuccessfully, to study an alternative therapy to cholesteatoma.
Mr. Parker tried unsuccessfully to acquire Delta Air Lines a year ago.
