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Unsuccessfully in sentence

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(Goldwater took the US government to the Supreme Court to challenge, unsuccessfully, Carter’s action;Reagan, in the 1980 presidential campaign, pledged partially to undo normalization, only to abandon that position after he was elected.)
Claims of prior inability to remember imply that they had attempted unsuccessfully to recall their abuse, only to remember it much later.
His mother tried unsuccessfully to enroll him in a private school as a boy.
A man of massive physique which he unsuccessfully tries to reduce by annual visits to a healthfarm, Kohl is politically nimble, particularly in diplomacy.
China sought unsuccessfully to exempt PNEs from the CTBT, a pact still not in force.
Republicans unsuccessfully tried to exploit it, reviving the Reagan era's "supply side claims that tax cuts raise growth substantially and permanently.
They relentlessly but unsuccessfully pressured Montenegro’s leaders to remain in a dysfunctional union with Serbia, condoned Kostunica’s dubious 2006 referendum on a new constitution enshrining Kosovo as a part of Serbia, and weakened demands for Serbia’s cooperation with the International Criminal Tribunal in The Hague.
We know that from such cases as that of John Moore, who tried unsuccessfully to claim property rights in a valuable cell line developed from his immune cells.
Former Utah Governor and Republican presidential candidate Jon Huntsman addressed this issue clearly and repeatedly as he sought – unsuccessfully – to win his party’s nomination to challenge President Barack Obama.
The government unsuccessfully edited the recording to make what was said sound nefarious, lied about the conversation’s meaning and about me, and plans to prosecute me.
That mistake was made by the Japanese, who tried, unsuccessfully, to muddle through, only to end up with 18 years of stagnation.
Russia has also tried – so far unsuccessfully – to establish a Novorossiya across Southern Ukraine.
To present Juncker’s candidacy as a matter of high political principle, with Cameron heroically but unsuccessfully standing alone against the dark forces of federalism and centralization, could have only reinforced English feelings of alienation from Europe.
The government, perplexed at first, tried unsuccessfully to make light of the presence of the PLA troops.
Welby, who suffered from muscular dystrophy and was paralyzed, had battled unsuccessfully in the Italian courts for the right to die.
With the Gaza Strip in its backyard, Egypt has already mediated several times between Hamas and Fatah, and has been trying, so far unsuccessfully, to arrange a swap of prisoners with Israel following Hamas’s abduction of Israeli soldier Gilad Shalit.
Navalny’s repeated requests for the minutes of several state-owned companies’ board meetings generated huge resistance – two companies even tried, unsuccessfully, to change the law in order to reject shareholder requests for information.
But this is exactly what it did, successfully, with the post-1945 Marshall Plan and, unsuccessfully, with Iraq and Afghanistan today.
Opponents of the IPCC have unsuccessfully attempted to undermine the new report by selectively leaking earlier versions.
And they continue to push -- unsuccessfully -- for Ahtisaari’s removal in order to prolong the Vienna talks.
French President Emmanuel Macron also reportedly attempted to broker an agreement on framework negotiations between the US and Iran on the sidelines of the recent UN General Assembly, albeit unsuccessfully.
In 2007, Danylko tried, unsuccessfully, to form his own political party.
Since then, Lukashenko has tried unsuccessfully to appeal to both Russia and the West for financial support.
In 2012, Pakistani President Asif Ali Zardari and Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh tried unsuccessfully to revive the process.
The US has been taking measures unsuccessfully to reduce undocumented migration since the 1950s.
With her arms helplessly outstretched upon the quilt, unusually beautiful and calm she lay, gazing silently at him, trying unsuccessfully to smile.
Gregor often heard how one of them would unsuccessfully urge another to eat, and receive no more answer than "no thanks, I've had enough" or something similar.
"His money appears to have been thrown away," observed the colonel, betraying the spleen he was unsuccessfully striving to conceal.
The prim man in the cloth boots, who had been unsuccessfully attempting to make a joke during the whole time the round game lasted, saw his opportunity, and availed himself of it.
They were confined for the evening at different tables, and she had nothing to hope, but that his eyes were so often turned towards her side of the room, as to make him play as unsuccessfully as herself.
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