How To Use Unsuccessful In A Sentence

The climbers face certain death if the rescue today is unsuccessful.
The final proposals were a rather unsuccessful compromise between the need for profitability and the demands of local conservationists.
Unsuccessful at screen writing, he got a spot on a CNN film show.
Two tugs from Clyde coastguards tried unsuccessfully to pull the vessel clear and it was freed the next day on the early morning tide.
Any attempt to incorporate it after the contract is made will be unsuccessful.

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Americans tried to take part of British Canada in December 1775, when forces led by Benedict Arnold and Richard Montgomery unsuccessfully attacked Quebec.
his unsuccessful mollification of the mob
Attempts to locate the lorry at Harwich International Port were unsuccessful.
The book opens with Blanche White in jail for unsuccessfully kiting checks to buy groceries with.
Behind every successful man there's a lot u unsuccessful years.
The second unsuccessful attempt to be professed had a transforming effect on him. Times, Sunday Times
Her parents had been separated since she was two, but becoming refugees together was a last - unsuccessful - stab at reuniting.
I regret to inform you that you have been unsuccessful in your application.
British Kaffraria, Griqualand East and Griqualand West were examples of this policy, which is still represented, not unsuccessfully, by the great protected area of Basutoland. The Expansion of Europe
He was an unsuccessful candidate in the general election and he came knocking at my door for my vote.
Equally importantly, the fraction of unsuccessful attempts was reduced fivefold.
By adding extra baserunning advances and steals, subtracting for baserunning outs and unsuccessful steal attempts and comparing the total to the major-league average, BIS calculates each team's net gain on the basepaths. Run, Run and Run Some More
Although he continued to box, he was unsuccessful in subsequent world title challenges, including one against Evander Holyfield in 1992.
It follows the Eaglegate building's unsuccessful spell on the lettings market as offices.
As they get close and learn about each other intergang attempts to capture the girl when they prove unsuccessful the being known as Kalibak arrives on earth to claim her who also gets his ass handed to him. Tuesday Discussion: Where Do You Want to See Superman Go? « FirstShowing.net
He also loaned the MP 21,000 for his unsuccessful party leadership campaign. The Sun
An unsuccessful attempt had also been made to set fire to the main shop building.
The Endangered Species Act has long been a bugaboo for anti-environmental lawmakers, who have unsuccessfully attacked it from every imaginable direction.
Each test launch costs 17 million of taxpayers' money yet information about this unsuccessful venture was deemed to be outside the public domain. Times, Sunday Times
Given those three prerequisites, I am convinced that most weight loss programs remain wildly unsuccessful because they don't pay attention to people's thinking. Judith S. Beck, Ph.D.: Dieting: The Missing Ingredient for Success
Like my colleagues, I don't speak in jargoned riddles -- or, as he parodied in his "Restoring History" episode, arrogantly pontificate through pipe-smoke, an authoritative blue blazer unsuccessfully concealing my fey pink shirt. Megan Doherty: My Walk With Glenn Beck, 21st Century Con Man
An expert in biorhythms tried unsuccessfully to predict accurately the sexes of the children in Bainbridge's study based on Bainbridge's data.
Do not ask your housemate who has friends visiting from out of town to help clean your puke out of the bathtub because you thought it would make you feel better after an unsuccessful night at the bar.
If you are a person who has had prior unsuccessful experience with Komondors don't buy any Komondor except a puppy.
The study also aims to represent the views of those people who have made successful or unsuccessful placements.
The move follows an unsuccessful bid by Mr Foster to get the board to reinstate the facility Teesdale farmers regard as essential.
Correspondingly few new works were seen on the main stage and unsuccessful works were considered to fail on a large scale.
After an unsuccessful attempt to crash the band's after party and meet their idols in person, the boys have a near death experience.
Behind every successful man, there is a woman. And behind every unsuccessful man,(Sentence dictionary) there are two.
A dislocated wrist, unsuccessfully set, occasioned advice from my surgeon, to try the mineral waters of Aix, in Provence, as a corroborant. Memoir Correspondence And Miscellanies
Unsuccessful attempts at administering the epidural should be recorded factually with no editorial comments.
Truman next tried, unsuccessfully, to mobilize the Protestant leaders of the World Council of Churches in a ‘religious anti-communist front’ against the Soviet Union.
In 1844 the organization was converted into a Fourieristic phalanx, which had an unsuccessful existence of a few brief months. The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 4: Clandestinity-Diocesan Chancery
Successful marriages so submerge the costs under mutual benefits that the cooperation can predominate; unsuccessful ones do not.
An attempt to implant an embryo using an egg from an anonymous woman donor was unsuccessful.
The only thing about it to he deplored is that it was unsuccessful. The Capture of Jefferson Davis
On his first attempt he was unsuccessful, because he couldn't reach the pedals.
The boy's paternal grandmother had unsuccessfully applied for a residence order.
It's a very select club - I've been trying unsuccessfully to join it for years.
Astrophil has been trying in the sonnet to proceed by imitation and been singularly unsuccessful in doing so.
I regret to inform you that you have been unsuccessful in your application.
By 1993 there had been six such successful coups since 1945 and numerous unsuccessful attempts. The Collins History of the World in the 20th Century
Previously, the families of four United States churchwomen who were raped and murdered by members of the Salvadoran National Guard in 1980 unsuccessfully brought a suit against Generals García and Casanova. Scott Gilmore: Catch As Catch Can: Salvadoran General Who Oversaw Torture is Indicted ... for Passport Fraud
Abstract painting did have an equivalent in sculpture but it was largely unsuccessful.
Behind every successful man there's a lot of unsuccessful years.
The court's general prosecutor had unsuccessfully asked for 19 death sentences to be imposed.
A statistical analysis selected those strategies more frequently used in successful than unsuccessful situations.
He followed many unsuccessful paths before finding his true metier.
Although the bid was unsuccessful, the event raised the profile of the town.
He says attempts to clarify the company's intentions have been unsuccessful.
The job will be offered to one of the 16 unsuccessful candidates who applied for the job last year.
It is at least 30 years since my last unsuccessful playground fight. Times, Sunday Times
He made an unsuccessful attempt to stop the thief.
Unsuccessful attempts to replace it were made in the fifties and sixties.
I have been trying unsuccessfully for several weeks to pay our annual premium, but Joel has disappeared (??), and "Edgardo" is always about to come back to the office! Help please ! seguros monterrey/NY Life
Senter 9.12 reports in a young woman a singular case of ischuria which continued for more than three years; during this time if her urine was not drawn off with the catheter she frequently voided it by vomiting; for the last twenty months she passed much gravel by the catheter; when the use of the instrument was omitted or unsuccessfully applied the vomitus contained gravel. Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine
The Panel is not sympathetic to delay in making an announcement occasioned by an unsuccessful application for suspension.
I am not speaking of what would ordinarily be called unsuccessful marriages or failures of holidays and so on. Christianity Today
Even the author's most sympathetic reviewers have expressed the opinion that this sexual encounter from beyond the grave is an unsuccessful instance of overreaching.
We have tried unsuccessfully to get a credit for the failed debit. Times, Sunday Times
The move follows an unsuccessful bid by Mr Foster to get the board to reinstate the facility Teesdale farmers regard as essential.
He was taken to hospital, where doctors fought unsuccessfully to save his sight.
(Figs. 1 and 2) But inarching of the native chestnut is for the most part unsuccessful because the fungus grows too rapidly and girdles the stem, killing the parts above before the inarched tips of the suckers can take hold. Northern Nut Growers Association Report of the Proceedings at the Thirty-Eighth Annual Meeting Guelph, Ontario, September 3, 4, 5, 1947
The actual ones that have been built and (unsuccessfully) flown have all had a polyimide film basis (Kapton or Mylar) because it is a more robust material per mass unit. Reader's Consensus: Develop a new launch vehicle - NASA Watch
The former car salesman was an unsuccessful driver in the 1950s before turning to the business side of the sport. The Sun
This is a city that struggles unsuccessfully to shake the traditions of backwardness, authoritarianism, ignorance, corruption, and social inequality.
Regrettably the customer's daughter died following unsuccessful attempts to find a suitable donor for a heart-lung transplant.
Euken joined some fellow study participants who petitioned the hospital, unsuccessfully, to continue group visits when the study ended: It's not that I don't get good care. Exploring group checkups for diabetes, Parkinson's
We had been mistakenly unsuccessful in not finding the small amount of transfer that was later detected in the triose P isomerase reaction. Irwin Rose - Autobiography
I knew it would fall flat; but it wasn't the bad script which made the film unsuccessful.
In 1999, he changed tact and unsuccessfully bid £1m for some of the club's 12,000 unissued shares.
Police were called, and made a number of unsuccessful attempts to catch the cow.
Locals believe its bells were thrown into the river at the time, but searches have been unsuccessful.
They danced, and he made an unsuccessful bid on a weekend at Hilton Head.
After several unsuccessful attempts he is kicked out of his therapy group for impeding the progress of his fellow oddballs.
Although reward may not represent very much extra incentive for the bright and successful, it motivates the unsuccessful child highly.
Would-be practitioners attempted unsuccessfully to make daguerreotypes from Western manuals.
I have tried unsuccessfully to ping it so I've decided to re-post my article.
Last week they went to the Court of Session in an unsuccessful attempt to have Thursday's meeting blocked.
'Every devisable means were unsuccessful in reducing the limb to its natural position. Diseases of the Horse's Foot
It may be personal: feeling unfulfilled, trapped, unsuccessful, uncreative or even broke. Times, Sunday Times
Her face still had the terrible pallor but it was not the alabaster whiteness of her mother's, more the ghastliness of unsuccessful junket. THE COMPANY OF STRANGERS
An unsuccessful three years at Everton certainly had not got him any. The Sun
I saw only the aftermath, but witnesses said the driver swerved in an unsuccessful attempt to avoid striking a black Acura (in the foreground, above) and after sideswiping the car veered left across opposing lanes, flipping on its side.
We've been pressing a very reasonable list of demands, but unsuccessfully, I'm afraid.
A Dubai court approved the U.K. request to extradite him, a decision Mr. Ibori appealed unsuccessfully, according to media reports. U.K. and Nigeria Seek Former Politician
Heowed his brains, not to his father, a Prussian officer and unsuccessful gentleman-farmer, but to his mother. FORGE OF EMPIRES 1861-1871
When this failed they moved around to the back and tried to unsuccessfully open the kitchen window.
I'm a maverick, he's a maverick, wouldn't you like to be a maverick, too?" offered Michael Burke of Silver Spring, Md., in his entry for the label embraced by unsuccessful Republican presidential candidate John McCain. IBN Top Headlines
Although such increases in validity appear to be small, the practical utility may be large when one takes into account the costs associated with unsuccessful job performance.
If these measures are unsuccessful, prophylactic treatment may be needed to prevent migraines.
Successful marriages so submerge the costs under mutual benefits that the cooperation can predominate; unsuccessful ones do not.
Attempts to trace the whereabouts of a man seen leaving the scene of the crime have so far been unsuccessful.
In the first-ever penalisation of IPO manipulators and recovery of amounts from them, Rs23. 28 crore is proposed to be disbursed among 12,74,736 unsuccessful IPO applicants, who were denied the shares in the first occasion. Domain-b Brand Dossier
One mourns her unsuccessful fertility treatment. Times, Sunday Times
Waste rock is critical to understand as it has the potential, if rehabilitation is poor or unsuccessful, to lead to long-term leaching of metals into adjacent surface waters or underlying groundwater resources. Gold mining and sustainability~ A critical reflection
The pages were scrawled with unreadable shorthand, quotes he would later unsuccessfully attempt to decipher, let alone match to any of the news stories he was supposed to be working on.
A three-disc Criterion release includes Mr. Gilliam's 142-minute version, plus Universal's dreadful 94-minute recut version with a happy ending that the studio released unsuccessfully. See Jane Blossom: An Enthralling 'Eyre'
No fetal malformation caused by unsuccessful use of high-dose oral contraceptives for emergency contraception has been reported.
The climbers face certain death if the rescue today is unsuccessful.
A JetBlue airliner unsuccessfully attempted to make an emergency landing Wednesday after its front wheels were turned sideways and unable to retract into the plane after takeoff from a nearby airport. 09/21/2005
His attempts to peddle his paintings around London's tiny gallery scene proved unsuccessful.
When Weiss-Rosmarin was unsuccessful in finding a teaching position in Assyriology, she and her husband established the School of the Jewish Woman on the Upper West Side of Manhattan in October 1933. Trude Weiss-Rosmarin.
Lileikis has tried unsuccessfully to assert a Fifth Amendment right against self-incrimination rather than answer allegations in the suit.
The chief of the Taiwan-based foundation visited China in October 1998 in an unsuccessful bid to jump-start the stalled dialogue.
The federal government has been unsuccessful for ten years in negotiating a peace.
Jack Lemmon, his longtime amateur partner, will be absent after 23 consecutive unsuccessful attempts to make the pro-am cut.
The management tried unsuccessfully to graft new working methods onto the existing ways of doing things.
I've even seen some of those volunteer agents from America unsuccessful in their own rabbitry. 28 additional technical notes about tropical agriculture
It has drilled two more unsuccessful wells this year, with three more to complete. Times, Sunday Times
We now know that the duty of the lexicographer is to record and not to criticize, that refined speech and elegant speech are the delusions of a mistaken optimism, and that the only people who now speak English with any approach to historical correctness are the few surviving agricultural laborers who are old enough to have escaped the devastating effects of the Elementary Education Act. Johnson's Dictionary went far to accomplish, in the eighteenth century, what the Italian and French Academies had unsuccessfully attempted in the seventeenth. On Dictionaries
Less than a year ago, veteran searchers seeking signs of the kokako unsuccessfully searched a valley east of Puysegur Point in Fiordland National Park for signs of the grey bird with orange wattles at each side of the beak. Archive 2007-01-01
While they had allowed themselves to be driven by blind instinct they were unsuccessful as parents and uncomfortable as people. Positive Parent Power
Albert Einstein spent the last 50 years of his life unsuccessfully trying to unify the theories of electromagnetism and gravity.
For every dominant alpha individual, well endowed with strength, cleverness, and hence females, there are more who lose out, and therefore end up as resentful and unsuccessful betas, deltas, and zetas.
The hungry masses exhausted the supply of cheese teasers and buffalo drummies, but attempts to contact managers on their communicators at 1800 were unsuccessful. Passeridae
Law Number VIII: The most unsuccessful four years in the education of a cost-estimator is fifth grade arithmetic. Augustine's Laws - and Ares 1 - NASA Watch
It was also noted that a few women conceived after 5 unsuccessful months of treatment.
For two years she was unsuccessful. Times, Sunday Times
“It would be worse than embarrassing,” he wrote, “if you should get tied into drawn-out conversations which would in the long run prove unsuccessful.” Eisenhower 1956
Salinger in 1946 was back in New York, rid not only of soldiering but of a brief, unsuccessful marriage to a European woman physician.
This was done for fear of leaving the government open to legal action from the various components of the unsuccessful consortia.
Ghandi's passive resistance to British rule, however, which was really the embodiment of soul force, was unsuccessful in appeasing the masses, because they understand no other agent of possession than that of brute force. The Political Situation in India
This correspondence reveals that after an unsuccessful effort to enlist Harriet Beecher Stowe as her amanuensis, she wrote her life herself.
Even leaving aside the things she has tried to back-pedal out of, claiming they were just footnotes or whatever (like saying pregnant women were victims of involuntary servitude), this is a woman who fought before the Supreme Court (unsuccessfully, Deo gratias) to deny religious leaders their First Amendment rights; who has argued forcefully that “gender rights” trump all First Amendment rights, especially religious rights, — even in YOUR OWN MIND. The Volokh Conspiracy » Dawn Johnsen Withdraws Nomination to be OLC Chief
Jack Lemmon, his longtime amateur partner, will be absent after 23 consecutive unsuccessful attempts to make the pro-am cut.
In the 3rd century, the Franks unsuccessfully attempted to invade Roman Gaul.
I put my arms on a choice piece of rock and heaved, dragging my body up while my feet unsuccessfully tried to locate footholds.
Last year there were 10 break-outs and 33 unsuccessful escape attempts, each involving detainees prising open windows under cover of darkness.
Either our proposition must be proved apodeictically; or, if this is unsuccessful, the sources of this inability must be sought for, and, if these are discovered to exist in the natural and necessary limitation of our reason, our opponents must submit to the same law of renunciation and refrain from advancing claims to dogmatic assertion. The Critique of Pure Reason
With an apparently endless supply of funds at their disposal, MEK members have repeatedly and unsuccessfully petitioned the federal government to have their names taken off the terrorist list.
Ordering pubescents about is a spectacularly unsuccessful way to influence their behaviour.
Crews aboard two Canadian Navy ships spent three days looking for the one-eighth scale models, but were unsuccessful.
I have unsuccessfully been searching for a set of military rear bumpers.
The climbers face certain death if the rescue today is unsuccessful.
The climbers face certain death if the rescue today is unsuccessful.
She appealed unsuccessfully against her conviction for murder.
Will two unsuccessful, undateable losers in love find companionship together?
The pink rose also represents pain, suffering and death in Roman mythology when Apollo turns Rhodanthe into a rose after she unsuccessfully tries to unseat Diana, his sister, as the goddess of the hunt and the protectress of women.
Talks to resolve the dispute were unsuccessful yesterday. Times, Sunday Times
His accomplice tried unsuccessfully to open the till at the off-licence and grocery shop in Wood Green, north London.
The only time the film trips up is in casting the Scottish comedian Billy Connolly as an Irishman, his grating Scots accent unsuccessfully modulated to try and make it resemble an Irish brogue.
Firefighters in Wales left the picket line in an unsuccessful attempt to save a life.
The chief reason why a vast number of patents are unsuccessful, is, that it takes a long time (longer generally than fourteen years, the statutable limit of patent grants) to make the workmen of a country familiar with a new manufacture. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, No. CCCXXXVI. October, 1843. Vol. LIV.
As with their unsuccessful ZX7 in the World Superbike series, the ZXRR apparently produces plenty of power but is limited by a primitive chassis which makes the bike nearly unrideable.
During one of the debate's most heated exchanges, Copps and Manley unsuccessfully tried to pin down Martin on the issue of campaign finance reform.
To American eyes he was indistinguishable from any other middle-aged peasant, and American efforts to catch him—such as orders to “arrest every fat Filipino of about forty years and hold until identification is proven”—were unsuccessful.7 Throughout 1900, Malvar and his partisans stalemated American efforts to pacify Batangas and impose colonial government. Between War and Peace
The consortium bid is not accepted in the tender. And no economic compensation shall be made to the unsuccessful bidder.
She unsuccessfully attempted to assume the mantle of presidency.
He was equally unsuccessful with the potman who was just unlocking the doors of the public-house by Horsell Bridge. The War of The Worlds
Suppose I am a bibliomane and someone comes to me with a title I have coveted unsuccessfully for years. Telegraph.co.uk: news, business, sport, the Daily Telegraph newspaper, Sunday Telegraph
He has since made two unsuccessful bids to buy the Championship club. Times, Sunday Times
Fifteen international veterinarians unsuccessfully lobbied the president for a revote last week. Times, Sunday Times
A perimeter barrier built after he bought the property last year sparked unsuccessful objections. The Sun
After two prior unsuccessful attempts to escape (1990 and 1993), her third attempt in 1998 led to final disentanglement from the group, but resulted in ex-communication from her friends and divorce from her husband of 20 years. Live interview today: Escaping Scientology, an insider’s true story
While the article touches briefly on trends among women waterfowlers, it mostly follows this group through an unsuccessful Monday hunt, during which they manage to take none of the ducks that pass (some within 40 yards), they smoke, pass around a flask, apparently wear purple bands on their hats and finally leave empty-handed. Poor Representation
Rossignol and Phillis theorize that this pattern of caffeine use may reflect an unsuccessful attempt by the women to self-medicate with caffeine.
The management tried unsuccessfully to graft new working methods onto the existing ways of doing things.
That success is in the eye of the unsuccessful would seem to be the great unspoken dilemma dogging critics asked to consider the work of the rich and famous author and inspirational speaker Malcolm Gladwell. AlterNet.org Main RSS Feed
Their unsuccessful efforts included a move to block the Environmental Protection Agency from enforcing provisions of environmental laws now on the books.
If unsuccessful, she returns to her place and pays a forfeit, which is redeemed at the end of the game. Games for the Playground, Home, School and Gymnasium
An attempt to implant an embryo using an egg from an anonymous woman donor was unsuccessful.
We were unsuccessful in our application for our son to join her this September. Times, Sunday Times
The extension was unsuccessfully opposed in parliament by deputies both to the left and right of the ruling coalition.
Talks to resolve the dispute were unsuccessful yesterday. Times, Sunday Times
Her general practitioner had treated it unsuccessfully with neomycin and gramicidin ointment and oral flucloxacillin and metronidazole.
Obviously, she missed it or she tried to deflect from the question ever so unsuccessfully john Roberts: McCain grapples with major fundraising challenge
I would also like to commiserate with the unsuccessful candidates.
After these goldrushes, and the return of experienced, but mostly unsuccessful diggers, gold, copper, and silver mines were in production within a short time.
At an earlier hearing the court heard that the police had made unsuccessful attempts to serve the complaint.
Starting southward from the cross-roads, the character of the country underwent so sudden a transformation that it looked as if man, having contended here unsuccessfully with nature, had signed an ignominious truce beneath the crumbling gateposts of the turnpike. The Miller of Old Church
During his visits Baker attempted, unsuccessfully, to arrange a regional Middle East peace conference.
Once Marxism was a value system then capitalism and free enterprise tried to coalesce as a value system - largely unsuccessfully.
Rep. Mark Miloscia, D-Federal Way, introduced a slew of unsuccessful amendments, arguing that the underlying bill doesn't do enough to protect the rights of surrogate mothers and doesn't assign adequate value to the work of what he termed "vulnerable women. The Seattle Times
When she married Ronald Rougier and had a son of her own, she carried on as the head of this household as well, becoming the main breadwinner while her husband stuttered through an early and unsuccessful career as a mining engineer and then changed direction completely to train as a barrister. On Georgette Heyer « Tales from the Reading Room
A few days before my baby was due, ultrasonography showed a previously unsuspected breech presentation, and attempts to turn the baby were unsuccessful.
Even though I ended up dreading every unsuccessful feed, I mourned the final one.
In the case of Athens, this is an unsuccessful hodiernal analogy, but it should also be noted that the Founding Fathers of this Republic drew valuable lessons from the age of Cicero and its antecedents.
In the succeeding 400 years, there have been attempts to resuscitate the Venezuelan pearl industry, but most such endeavors have proved unsuccessful.
Hofmokl also describes the case of a young girl with an undeveloped vagina, absence of the uterus and adnexa, who during a forcible and unsuccessful attempt at coitus, had her left labium majus torn from the vaginal wall. Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine
In other actions the unsuccessful party has to pay an amercement for making an unjust, or resisting a just claim; the defendant found guilty of trespass is fined and imprisoned.
The question of whether incorrect paddle position is a cause of unsuccessful defibrillation of patients in ventricular fibrillation remains unanswered.
In the early 1850s, when Wentworth chaired the committee appointed to draft a new constitution for NSW, his unsuccessful plea for an upper house based on a hereditary colonial peerage was mocked as a bunyip aristocracy.
After several unsuccessful efforts, they would become discouraged and often would begin to spit up.
If a second reminder was unsuccessful no further action was taken.
The couple made several unsuccessful attempts at a compromise.
There are two, and I've hunted both hard. but unsuccessfully, forest sitatunga and East African sitatunga. 30 yearsw ago a took Zambezi variety, but the other two have me jinxed. Very Little Drops Dead
These were at first unsuccessful; the fruits were mushy when thawed, since they had been frozen too slowly so that large ice crystals formed which disrupted their delicate tissues.
He tried unsuccessfully to ease the T-shirt over the boy's head.
An unsuccessful attempt at Bohemian jollification is interrupted by the arrival of Musetta with Mimi, who could hardly drag herself up the stairs.
It proved unsuccessful as no enemy was encountered although Sabres were scrambled.
He then tried unsuccessfully to cut through the lock with a hacksaw.
If the attempt to block the licence is unsuccessful, the petitioners are asking magistrates to limit the business's opening hours to 11 pm.
They are demeaning themselves and making themselves unsuccessful.
I went with him to his clinic and there found on the operating table a lady whom they had tried, unsuccessfully, to deliver with forceps without anaesthesia.

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