Sentence examples for were unsuccessfully from inspiring English sources

Both were unsuccessfully nominated for appeals court seats.

The efforts of the APA were unsuccessfully opposed by another, more conservative group of colonists that, while favouring representative government, sought to exclude Emancipists from political participation.

It was the fastest first two hours of any stage of this year's Tour - because Euskaltel and Lampre, two of the teams who did not have anyone in the break, were unsuccessfully trying to prevent it from establishing itself.

The mother and grandmother were unsuccessfully utilizing every possible strategy to hush the unhappy child.

With crowds at these levels, the Mariners were unsuccessfully competing in the Newcastle area.

Eight British forts were taken; others, including Fort Detroit and Fort Pitt, were unsuccessfully besieged.

He's been unsuccessfully clarifying that for ages.

The Helms amendment was unsuccessfully challenged on First Amendment grounds.

Naturally, we've been unsuccessfully wrestling with it ever since.

During the Thirty Years' War it was unsuccessfully besieged in 1628 by imperial forces under Albrecht von Wallenstein.

He was unsuccessfully trying to gain work as crew on another boat.