Sentence examples for unsuccessful over from inspiring English sources

Attempts to popularize tenpin bowling elsewhere in Europe were unsuccessful over the next several decades, but the game became popular in Great Britain during World War II, when hundreds of lanes were installed on U.S. military bases.

In other news, I hired a cleaning lady (drastically needed), but efforts to get a Taskrabbit to pick stuff up from IKEA for me were unsuccessful over the weekend.

Although parthenogens should have a reproductive advantage over their sexual relatives, they seem to be unsuccessful over the long term and to have short evolutionary lifespans [ 1, 2].

For several years, Rye waged a legal battle -- ultimately unsuccessful -- over construction of a Home Deport in neighboring Port Chester.

The failed loan offering is the company's second unsuccessful deal over the last year.

He resigned after leading the company, based in Topeka, into energy-trading and securities businesses, and two unsuccessful mergers over four years.

The search by agents of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, state troopers and local sheriff's deputies followed three unsuccessful ones over previous months in the hills near Camp Wood.

LONDON (AP) — Richard Leigh, a writer who filed an unsuccessful lawsuit over the novel "The Da Vinci Code," died on Nov. 21 in London.

He also suffered trading failures in the East Indies and long, unsuccessful litigation over the estate with one of his partners.

Tom McGrath, the director of the film, which opens on Friday, said he was inspired by Tesla's unsuccessful battles over the commercialization of electricity.

Schoonbaert, nicknamed 'Lorre', has undergone 37 unsuccessful operations over the past 20 years, and under Belgium's liberal euthanasia laws, has agreed with doctors to tragically end his own life.