Sentence examples for unsuccessful getting from inspiring English sources

Others, like Fiona, however, expressed their delight at securing tickets: "I was unsuccessful getting tickets in the first ballot and tried again this morning.

Although I was unsuccessful getting hired on Late Night, thankfully Bill Maher was starting up Politically Incorrect, where I spent five years.

His title defence in 1997 proved unsuccessful, getting off to a poor start when he only narrowly qualified for the Australian Grand Prix, and then retired on the parade lap.

He was ruined but never learned his lesson, and he continued coming up with reckless, unsuccessful get-rich-quick schemes.

"If Gore would win, you would find he would be very unsuccessful in getting things passed through Congress".

It's been a learning experience, she said, and a struggle because she has been unsuccessful in getting grant money.

Ms. Fallon first contacted literary agents about her novel, "The Carrier of the Mark," a paranormal romance, but was unsuccessful in getting it published.

Paul Baier, who heads an advocacy organization called Survivors First, said his group had been unsuccessful in getting Ms. Thorp to provide standard questions in advance.

The systems list millions of fares, though they have largely been unsuccessful in getting airlines to share their most deeply discounted Web-only fares.

Arroyo said the Yankees would be waiting for his outside breaking pitches if he was unsuccessful in getting a piece of the inside corner.

While the Yankees negotiated with Gonzalez's agents today, they remained unsuccessful in getting him to budge from his refusal to sign a contract extension.