That quality was on vivid display here this week as Mr. Schröder enlisted a powerful new ally in his campaign, as yet unsuccessful, to reduce Germany's stubbornly high unemployment rate.
His prescription for improvement included not only a widely heralded economic development plan, to be pursued with the introduction of the most modern technology, but also stern and unpopular controls on imports, the devaluation of the pound, wage restraint, and an attempt, in the event these measures proved unsuccessful, to reduce the power of the trade unions.
— New York Senate Majority Leader Dean Skelos, on Governor Andrew Cuomo's unsuccessful proposal to reduce marijuana possession to a violation "You can see we're not ready to break into a kumbaya.
On Tuesday, the Santa Monica-based Foundation for Taxpayer and Consumer Rights, a nonprofit consumer advocacy group that more than a decade ago backed an unsuccessful measure to reduce California automobile insurance rates, announced it was drafting a ballot initiative to deal with the electricity problem.
"The fee was unconscionable," says Houston lawyer Larry J. Doherty, now host of the syndicated TV show Texas Justice, who represented Fleming clients in an unsuccessful bid to reduce the fee.
Have you made a conscious but unsuccessful effort to reduce your Facebook "use"?
A two-propeller layout was adopted in an unsuccessful attempt to reduce the ship's draft.
In an unsuccessful bid to reduce the displacement, many sections of armor were reduced in thickness, but the ships exceeded even the design estimate as built.
After trials, the three-bladed propellers on the inboard shafts were replaced by five-bladed propellers in an unsuccessful attempt to reduce vibrations of the inboard propeller shafts.
The study by Lai et al. [ 31] reports initial unsuccessful attempts to reduce vancomycin use, followed by vancomycin restriction efforts which were successful.
In addition, participants were confined to those reporting to have experienced typical components of addiction with their online gaming including: tolerance, withdrawal, preoccupation with playing it, repeated unsuccessful attempts to reduce or stop it, negatively influenced mood when attempting to reduce it, and neglecting important relationships or activities because of it [ 17, 18].
