How To Use Unsuccessfully In A Sentence

Two tugs from Clyde coastguards tried unsuccessfully to pull the vessel clear and it was freed the next day on the early morning tide.
Americans tried to take part of British Canada in December 1775, when forces led by Benedict Arnold and Richard Montgomery unsuccessfully attacked Quebec.
The book opens with Blanche White in jail for unsuccessfully kiting checks to buy groceries with.
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
The Endangered Species Act has long been a bugaboo for anti-environmental lawmakers, who have unsuccessfully attacked it from every imaginable direction.

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.
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
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.
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.
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
The court's general prosecutor had unsuccessfully asked for 19 death sentences to be imposed.
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
We have tried unsuccessfully to get a credit for the failed debit. Times, Sunday Times
He was taken to hospital, where doctors fought unsuccessfully to save his sight.
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
This is a city that struggles unsuccessfully to shake the traditions of backwardness, authoritarianism, ignorance, corruption, and social inequality.
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
In 1999, he changed tact and unsuccessfully bid £1m for some of the club's 12,000 unissued shares.
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.
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
When this failed they moved around to the back and tried to unsuccessfully open the kitchen window.
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'
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
Lileikis has tried unsuccessfully to assert a Fifth Amendment right against self-incrimination rather than answer allegations in the suit.
The management tried unsuccessfully to graft new working methods onto the existing ways of doing things.
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
Albert Einstein spent the last 50 years of his life unsuccessfully trying to unify the theories of electromagnetism and gravity.
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
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.
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.
I have unsuccessfully been searching for a set of military rear bumpers.
She appealed unsuccessfully against her conviction for murder.
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.
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.
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.
She unsuccessfully attempted to assume the mantle of presidency.
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
Fifteen international veterinarians unsuccessfully lobbied the president for a revote last week. Times, Sunday Times
The management tried unsuccessfully to graft new working methods onto the existing ways of doing things.
The extension was unsuccessfully opposed in parliament by deputies both to the left and right of the ruling coalition.
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
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.
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
He tried unsuccessfully to ease the T-shirt over the boy's head.
He then tried unsuccessfully to cut through the lock with a hacksaw.
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.
I once tried unsuccessfully to read that novel; seeing its dramatization has inspired me never to try again.
Paul tried unsuccessfully to provoke Fletch into a fight.
The extension was unsuccessfully opposed in parliament by deputies both to the left and right of the ruling coalition.
Following Bennett's withdrawal a number of other candidates had been unsuccessfully approached until Yeutter was offered the post on Jan. 3.
So what we decided when we contacted you again recently - and again tried unsuccessfully to get you on the phone - was that we were getting the same old runaround.
The earache is back, and it sounds for all the world as if a Chinook is trying (unsuccessfully) to take off in my head. Some Kind Of Update « The Graveyard
Instead of seeking to broaden its appeal to urban elites or local strongmen, the GMD sought unsuccessfully to compel their submission by force.
He still holds the glass in his left hand and struggles, self consciously, unsuccessfully, to bury it into the pocket of his lab coat.
He plays a young man struggling unsuccessfully to accept the death of his mother.
The pastor tried hard, but unsuccessfully, to keep the boys to the straight and narrow path.
Governors tried unsuccessfully last year to persuade Congress to convert Medicaid into a block grant, as Congress did on welfare.
She has applied unsuccessfully for 50 or so jobs and 95% of her applications have gone unacknowledged. Times, Sunday Times
Detectives say a number of thieves have tried - unsuccessfully - to mug undercover officers.
Jack and Mike laughed out loud at his reaction, watched as he unsuccessfully tried to master his fear and loathing.
Yang deficiency unsuccessfully controls water, so there is profuse and clear urine.
This attempt was a failure, and cure was also unsuccessfully attempted by wire ligature and the thermocautery. Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine
She appealed unsuccessfully against her conviction for murder.
Governors tried unsuccessfully last year to persuade Congress to convert Medicaid into a block grant[Sentence dictionary], as Congress did on welfare.
The young George Soros would try to sell little knick-knacks to tobacconists - unsuccessfully, as he now recalls.
At the time of his death Campbell was unsuccessfully seeking backers for a jet-driven car to go through the sound barrier.
Senter 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
We have tried unsuccessfully to get a credit for the failed debit. Times, Sunday Times
Wallace has done his editing carefully, verifying the texts, dating the documents, explaining allusions, and seeking (often unsuccessfully) the sources of unattributed quotations.
England felt they had broken through twice, once when Mr. Katich fell across an inswinger from Mr. Anderson, only for the DRS to post an immediate rebuke to umpire Billy Doctrove, and once when Mr. Strauss called for a review unsuccessfully for a leg-before against Mr. Watson. Game On After Hussey Leads Fightback
In 2005, McCain angered some in his party when he and Democratic Sen. Ted Kennedy unsuccessfully pushed for a comprehensive immigration reform bill that included a path to citizenship. McCain honors service of Hispanics in new ad
Since this had been unsuccessfully set, it occasioned advice from my surgeon to try the mineral waters of Aix, in Provence as a corroborant.
During a brief Q & A session after the screening, Perry tried, unsuccessfully in my opinion, to justify the elements of the movie that left me unsettled.
Some sought to contradict him, while others tried, unsuccessfully, to ignore his prying.
From 1890, he spent seven years unsuccessfully running his father's sisal plantation in the Bahamas.
Unsuccessfully treated severe depression is a disease with a mortality rate similar to that of cancer.
Mount Pruno, till, finding disciples there no less indocile to the severity of his discipline than the former, he was determined to pursue himself that rigorous plan of life which he had hitherto unsuccessfully proposed to others. The Lives of the Fathers, Martyrs, and Principal Saints January, February, March
Lileikis has tried unsuccessfully to assert a Fifth Amendment right against self-incrimination rather than answer allegations in the suit.
The girls clamber from their seats, toward the open windows, as Seena tries unsuccessfully to open the window nearest her. Amaryllis in Blueberry
The boy's paternal grandmother had unsuccessfully applied for a residence order.
The management tried unsuccessfully to graft new working methods onto the existing ways of doing things.
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
She appealed unsuccessfully against her conviction for murder.
In attempting unsuccessfully to couple with the labellum the male pushes its head forward below the overhanging column.
Ellen tried unsuccessfully to stop the snort that escaped her muzzle.
“However, in those days,” Louis wrote, “quite apart from financial difficulties, we had not got such modern equipment as 4-wheel drive Land Rovers, helicopters and light aeroplanes, nor was there any reasonably sized motor vessel on Lake Rudolf, and it was not practical for me although I did endeavour to go to the area to explore it, unsuccessfully….” Ancestral Passions
Over the past months, as I had tried unsuccessfully to fight colds and infections, a tumor had been growing inside my chest, sapping my strength and will power.
During his term of office, Khatami has repeatedly sought a rapprochement with the US, to a large extent unsuccessfully.
she tried unsuccessfully to persuade him to buy a new car
After months of unsuccessfully trying to find a replacement sponsor the club finally had to take the decision to regrade to the first division.
And it was Lewis who fought, unsuccessfully, to keep the movement grounded in its nonviolent, integrationist roots. Matthew Yglesias » Glenn Beck Denounces Civil Rights Activist John Lewis For Comparing Himself to Civil Rights Activist John Lewis
The man dropped to the ground, trying unsuccessfully to move his legs.
Kara tried unsuccessfully to rouse herself from her stupor.
He also unsuccessfully sought Liberal Party preselection in 1990 to contest a seat in the Australian Parliament.
Yet, he had more to ponder than gatekeeping, not least since he'd unsuccessfully applied for the job in 2011. Times, Sunday Times
She saw his physical symptoms as evidence that he was trying unsuccessfully to apply the brakes on a natural evolutionary process.
Ordered by her prioress to complete an account of her childhood memories, she was trying unsuccessfully to write: Gretchen Rubin: Respond to the Spirit of a Gift
The first great fleet in Spanish history was the famous armada of 1588, sent unsuccessfully to defeat England.
She tries unsuccessfully to convince Solingen what she found, but he writes her off as teenage mutant with no brains inside her head. Marsbound-Joe Haldeman « The Merry Genre Go Round Reviews
The laborer unsuccessfully pleaded with the company to reconsider, noting that he was the main breadwinner in his otherwise impoverished family.
The IRS had argued -- unsuccessfully -- that shares received by policyholders in this "demutualization" process had a tax cost of zero. New Tax Breaks to Be Aware Of
In California, fisherman and tribal members unsuccessfully pushed for a temporary moratorium on suction dredging to protect threatened fish such as coho salmon. Kentucky.com: Homepage
This is evident from the high frequency of texts within the book that you have to try and "neutralise", though unsuccessfully it would seem. The Only True God Chapter 5: Monotheism and Worship in the Book of Revelation
He then unsuccessfully attempted to cannulate the umbilical vein.
She tried unsuccessfully to catch the metal goblet before it landed on the floor.
Search firms have long trolled the industry's executive ranks, often unsuccessfully, as financial stability and employer loyalty kept individuals in place.
Collier ran unsuccessfully for the Upper House at the last election.
He acknowledged that reducing interprovincial barriers to trade has been attempted unsuccessfully several times in the past decade. Globe and Mail
Why indeed would Mr Francis leap so ungraciously at distortions and seek (albeit unsuccessfully) to damage my career and undermine my livelihood?
Lileikis has tried unsuccessfully to assert a Fifth Amendment right against self-incrimination rather than answer allegations in the suit.
The court heard he went on a fire-starting spree over a five-year period after unsuccessfully applying to join the fire service, targeting houses, sheds and vehicles.
It was at this point that police initially peacefully and totally unsuccessfully, sought to persuade the protesters to disperse.
She stood unsuccessfully as a candidate in the local elections.
The bank also admitted it was aware of the problem with non-contributory pensions when it first launched the product in October 2000-even lobbying the government unsuccessfully to have the law changed.
Her general practitioner had treated it unsuccessfully with neomycin and gramicidin ointment and oral flucloxacillin and metronidazole.
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Whitehead gave me a very difficult problem – one that had been attacked unsuccessfully for a quarter of a century – namely, to show that knots are "aspheric" (we won't explain here what this means). Robert J. Aumann - Autobiography
Like when he'd been in the juniors and a boy at the Big School tried unsuccessfully one Sunday night to replace a light-bulb while standing, starkers, in a bath-full of soapy water.
On Bach's death in 1650, he applied unsuccessfully for the vacant post at Leipzig.
Representing the Serenissima, Giustiniani (unsuccessfully) petitioned Pope Pius II to pardon the condottiere, whose lands Venice considered the belly of its republic. Architecture and Memory: The Renaissance Studioli of Federico da Montefeltro
Ousted Philippine President Joseph Estrada and several foreign embassies in Manila denied Thursday a Thai newspaper report that Estrada tried unsuccessfully to seek asylum abroad.
Macdonald has tried, unsuccessfully, in the recent past to win interdicts to prove its case.
California, fisherman and tribal members unsuccessfully pushed for a temporary moratorium on suction dredging to protect threatened fish such as coho salmon. WTOP / Business / Biz Stories
In 1972 the National Organization for the Reform of Marijuana Legislation, a nonprofit advocacy group, unsuccessfully lobbied the U.S. government to relist marijuana as a Schedule II substance.
In 1831, he took up the project his father had pursued unsuccessfully for twenty years: building a reaper to speed the harvesting of small grains.
I tried, albeit unsuccessfully, to contact him.
Or the zoologist who attempted to cross humans with chimpanzees - brutally but unsuccessfully. Times, Sunday Times
Jones returned and contested the general election unsuccessfully…
And all year long, theObama DOJ fought (unsuccessfully) to keep encaged at Guantanamo a man whom Bush officials had tortured while knowing he was innocent. A historian's account of Democrats and Bush-era war crimes
We have tried unsuccessfully to get a credit for the failed debit. Times, Sunday Times
In a fit of fury, Pentheus attempts unsuccessfully to imprison Dionysus, who subsequently awakens Pentheus's salacious interest in the cavorting ladies.
Sunday Life tried unsuccessfully to contact Mr Carson last week to comment on the allegations.
Speaking of hair, isn't it irritating to see unkept spiky mops being unsuccessfully passed off as fashionable mullets?
Matisse even tried, unsuccessfully, to persuade his friend Claude Renoir to change from the traditional red paint called vermillion to cadmium red. ScienceBlogs Channel : Life Science
The sites went unvisited until 2000, when botanists from the Long Island Botanical Society unsuccessfully tried to re-locate the three populations.
In the general elections of 1923 and 1924 he stood unsuccessfully as Liberal candidate for Lincoln.
In October 1989 the opposition unsuccessfully attempted to establish a parliamentary commission of inquiry into the affair.
The Samoan-born yokozuna, the winner of 12 titles, has struggled unsuccessfully for two years with a wrist injury.
He unsuccessfully pressed Churchill to promise post-war independence to India to stiffen Indian resolve to fight and to disarm American suspicions of a war to save the British Empire.
She unsuccessfully attempted to assume the mantle of presidency.
He was graduated with honors from Oxford, ran unsuccessfully for Parliament in 1964, then began writing teleplays.
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.
The runner submitted video evidence and unsuccessfully tried to show that it was difficult to hear the doorbell from his bedroom. The Sun
Defined as a computing device that forgoes the usual keyboard as its main input method, numerous vendors have unsuccessfully pursued this Holy Grail. Why Tablet Computers Will Succeed Now
Two of the isolated smooth muscle preparations that I unsuccessfully tested for bioassay of VEM and VDM were a helically-cut strip of rabbit aorta, which responded with contraction to epinephrine, and a longitudinal segment of rabbit duodenum, which exhibited spontaneous rhythmic contractions that were inhibited by epinephrine and stimulated by acetylcholine. Robert F. Furchgott - Autobiography
One of them, indeed, circularized seven others at the conference, then — unsuccessfully, as it turned out — tried placing a phone call to Humphrey to deliver their joint message. Teddy Kennedy’s Decision
Some sought to contradict him, while others tried, unsuccessfully, to ignore his prying.
Or the zoologist who attempted to cross humans with chimpanzees - brutally but unsuccessfully. Times, Sunday Times
tried unsuccessfully to palliate the widespread discontent.
The extension was unsuccessfully opposed in parliament by deputies both to the left and right of the ruling coalition.
In 1950, he ran unsuccessfully for the US Senate.
She tried unsuccessfully to twist free.
During this period, he unsuccessfully tried to gain possession of the ranch by locating thirteen Confederate land scrips on the ranch.
It's a very select club - I've been trying unsuccessfully to join it for years.
The interim government had tried unsuccessfully to separate the factions, by using loyal militia and neutral mujaheddin groups.
Dozens of parents, students and national leaders of Latino activist groups unsuccessfully petitioned the school board for her return.
A community activist, he unsuccessfully ran against John de Beck for a city schools seat two years ago.
Dodd makes two more trips to the Oldsmobile, first to turn off the car's ignition, then to unsuccessfully pull Dawson's left hand from under his leg.
But at the other end of their order were the rural squireens, the hobereaux, families with nothing to live on but their feudal dues and the produce of their ill-managed lands, often no larger than peasant smallholdings: ill-educated, provincial, struggling, often unsuccessfully, to cling to their noble status.

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