Sentence examples for unavailing attempt from inspiring English sources

Her online attacks against the censors, and her unavailing attempt to sue them, were widely supported by Chinese internet commentators.

Amid this year's tsunami of 1914 books, rather overlooked was Duncan Marlor's Fatal Fortnight (Frontline Books), a graphic, groundbreaking and inevitably poignant account of the unavailing attempt by Arthur Ponsonby and other MPs to keep Britain out of the war.

As Molineux matters slipped from dismal to disastrous (in sporting terms) in 1964-65 – untoinkably to most observers, Cullis was sacked in the autumn – Thomson dropped out of Ramsey's side after a mid-term friendly with Holland in Amsterdam, which at least enabled him to concentrate on Wolves' unavailing attempt to escape relegation to the second flight.

Strenuous, but unavailing, attempts were made to save the marriage.

His ingenious, seemingly unavailing attempts to persuade his parents to allow him this cherished gift form the slender backbone of the musical.

He was aware of it, ashamed of it, and he made valiant (if unavailing) attempts to overcome it, trying hard to follow his children's lives at school and university, or to encourage my mother in her writing and drawing.

"My unavailing attempts to somehow reintegrate the action quantum into classical theory extended over several years and caused me much trouble".

Maskell's MI5 interrogator offers him the analogy of religious confession in an unavailing effort to prompt him to reveal more.

The last attempt, on Tuesday, was unavailing.

Attempts to steady the vehicle were unavailing.

Both men have publicly disputed the charges, and repeated attempts to reach them by telephone for comment were unavailing.