Exempel på unavailing

• But the retreat is unavailing: unawareness, like deafness, implies a defect, and we do not generally assume that operatic characters are defective.

• However unavailing it might appear in retrospect, this view was not without foundation.

• But since the initial question does not make (or at least does not need to make) any claim of desert, this answer seems unavailing.

• All their efforts to row to shore were unavailing.

• Plans for a new edition in 1970 proved unavailing, and the book has long been virtually unobtainable.

• Galland writes with a certain terse wit, often at the expense of unavailing papal efforts to exercise any effective control over other powers.

• It is a mistake to keep looking far new ideas and methods continually as if the old methods were necessarily completely unavailing.

• I have considerable sympathy with his unavailing effort to get away from lawyers.

• I am sorry to tell him that they have been unavailing, and we have had no response to them whatever.

• But why should it be an unavailing regret?

• Instead of speaking with legitimate pride of his achievement-he spoke of it in language of unavailing regret.

• At the end of the day, whatever help we give it will be largely unavailing unless there is confidence, and unless there is continued expansion.

• Without these three, all the expert business management in the world will be quite unavailing.

• Sadly, it felt that its efforts to promote those objectives had been unavailing and that its mission was a failure.

• We greatly regret that these various appeals should have proved unavailing.