0 When an attempt to do something is unavailing, it is unsuccessful or has no positive effect: --
We greatly regret that these various appeals should have proved unavailing.
Sadly, it felt that its efforts to promote those objectives had been unavailing and that its mission was a failure.
Without these three, all the expert business management in the world will be quite unavailing.
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.
Instead of speaking with legitimate pride of his achievement-he spoke of it in language of unavailing regret.
But why should it be an unavailing regret?
I am sorry to tell him that they have been unavailing, and we have had no response to them whatever.
I have considerable sympathy with his unavailing effort to get away from lawyers.
