Sentence examples for unsuccessful in the from inspiring English sources

He was successful, not unsuccessful, in the primary; he lost the general election.

Conservative hereditary Lord Monk Bretton, whose title goes back to 1884, was unsuccessful in the ballot.

I was unsuccessful in the end because Wilson would not grant me further access to police.

Simon [Birmingham] is reviewing again the higher education reforms that were unsuccessful in the senate.

Osborne's next move, into low-cost software publishing, was also unsuccessful in the longer term.

The effort to extend the Graham decision has so far been unsuccessful in the lower courts.

Lal was unsuccessful in the June polls, as he lost races to both the Lok Sabha and the Haryana assembly.

Both parties want to convince émigrés to come back but research suggests these overtures are likely to be unsuccessful in the short term.

Saudi Arabia could try to arrest the decline by cutting production, although a similar ploy was notably unsuccessful in the mid-1980s.

RICH KOTITE, whose tenure as Jets coach was unsuccessful in the mid-1990's, will return to football as a postgame television analyst for the Baltimore Ravens.

Snowden would be able to challenge it through the Hong Kong legal system, although lawyers think he would probably be unsuccessful in the end.