Detroit Aircraft's frantic efforts to regain stability were unavailing and, in October, the corporation floundered into receivership. |
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This has been compounded by an unavailing resort to extreme force in the most heated zones of engagement. |
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The students' petition proved unavailing, as were Professor Day's own efforts to persuade the administration to reconsider its position. |
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Cambridge did not grant women degrees until 1948, but in March 1897 Maitland delivered a superb if unavailing address favoring the women's cause. |
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The reformist road to socialism was unavailing, but the reformist road to a more humane capitalism doesn't look much more hopeful. |
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And third, we have rights where ordinary economic and political levers of change prove unavailing in efforts to improve individual well-being. |
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My own search for this has proven unavailing, so I thought I'd call on my readers' knowledge in this matter. |
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Finally, when that proved unavailing, I put my hand on the punk's chest, shoved him off his board, and finished out my ride. |
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The service sector has been characterized as technologically non-progressive and unavailing of opportunities for productivity growth. |
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Furthermore, defendants' individualized arguments regarding the adequacy and typicality of the proposed class representatives are unavailing. |
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I woke Madam Mina, and again tried to hypnotize her, but alas, it was unavailing and too late. |
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Years of strenuous effort to prove the case have been unavailing. |
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The jury found him guilty, and the numerous legal appeals made on Hill's behalf were unavailing. |
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To trash Currin's apparent attitudes is easy enough but, as Kim Levin seems to have discovered, remarkably unavailing. |
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Her father ensured that she obtained high-quality care, which was ultimately unavailing. |
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All that medical science has learned and all that the doctors offer is unavailing if the individual does not take advantage of it fully. |
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Of course, supply-side measures alone will be unavailing in the absence of an increase in effective demand. |
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Does what happened on 11 September mean that we have failed, that our ideal is but a Utopia, that all effort is unavailing? |
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Myths were confounded, lies proved unavailing, and there were big losers beyond Mitt Romney. |
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Efforts to determine when the Massachusetts legislature last felt embarrassed were unavailing. |
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It is still unclear whether virtual education is really less expensive, and attempts to assess comprehensively the effectiveness of educational programs have been unavailing. |
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Inquiries made of the sellers and their forwarding agents after the event were unavailing because they were either elusive or unco-operative or both. |
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My efforts to reach Robbins to hear his explanation were unavailing, alas. |
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When these overcautious tactics proved unavailing, Milyukov swung sharply to the left and, on November 14, 1916 delivered a powerful speech in the chamber implying that the government was guilty of treason. |
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It is not surprising that repeated applications to the United States district court in Virginia by Mr. Lindh's counsel to have his agreed-upon 20-year sentence commuted have been unavailing. |
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After the unavailing ministrations of several doctors, he had been healed simply through the prayers of the church leaders who had gathered in his house to pray for him. |
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It is equally unnecessary to say that the reverse is also true: gentleness and courage, unfortunately perhaps, are unavailing without the colder cunning of the artist. |
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I glanced at Van Helsing, and saw my conviction reflected in his eyes, so I became a little more fixed in my manner, if not more stern, and motioned to him that his efforts were unavailing. |
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If the duty to prevent and protect against mass atrocity is unavailing and unrequited then a duty may arise for the international community to intervene so as to avert a humanitarian catastrophe. |
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If, however, prevention is unavailing, if states are unable or unwilling to prevent mass atrocity or if they themselves are the perpetrators of such crimes, there emerges an international responsibility to protect. |
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But if prevention is unavailing, and we are on the verge of killing fields and a humanitarian catastrophe, then the international community has a responsibility to protect. |
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