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This experiment was unsuccessful.
We tried to put out the fire but we were unsuccessful. We had to call the fire brigade.
Our plan was unsuccessful.
Tom was unsuccessful in finding a job.
The therapy was unsuccessful.
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I've been so unsuccessful in disposing these other lots, that I'm gonna give away a half a pound of tea with every lot I sell from now on.
So far I've been unsuccessful. in persuading mine to bloom by moonlight. or any other kind of light.
The search for Godzilla is continuing. Last night's search was unsuccessful.
The attempt was unsuccessful?
The world is full of unsuccessful love-marriages.
That's how they explained the mutated births. unsuccessful experiments passed on. from generation to generation, carried in the blood.
I'd been engaged in an unsuccessful business speculation.
They were unsuccessful.
If the vote is unsuccessful then the papers are burned with wet straw and the smoke from the chapel will be black.
Yet our attempts to contact the station's personnel have been, so far, unsuccessful.
Here is an unsuccessful encyclopaedia salesman.
Now here are two unsuccessful encyclopaedia salesmen.
Your interrogation has been completely unsuccessful.
Maybe unsuccessful.
In an attempt to make away with it from London was unsuccessful.
Yesterday, the unsuccessful raid, today, the Cuba Cabana closes, and the owner is leaving the country head over heels on an obscure freighter.
Last night's search was unsuccessful. Its whereabouts are still unknown.
Every attempt to contact Luna 3 has been unsuccessful.
Even if this escape were unsuccessful, it would embarrass me in the eyes of General Burkhalter!
I couldn't help noticing that you were making an unsuccessful suicide bid.
The things you have to do these days to make an unsuccessful escape.
Efforts to save him were unsuccessful. and he died shortly thereafter.
You look like an unsuccessful oil tycoon.
As of this moment, 1800 hours, October 21, 1997. all efforts to restore communication with Jupiter 2. and America's first space family have been unsuccessful.
I'd rather do an unsuccessful news show.
We tried to establish radio contract, contact with the spacecraft an we were unsuccessful.
Unsuccessful time travel.
This was just someone's unsuccessful attempt to develop something similar.
I almost became an unsuccessful fashion designer.
Attempts to shoot it down proved unsuccessful.
All efforts, including Sasha's, to locate her proved unsuccessful.
Up till a few weeks ago, a dismally unsuccessful one.
News and current affairs
For most of the twentieth century, programmers were patently unsuccessful in designing chess computers that could compete with the best humans.
Some Europeans suggest that Asian central banks should hold a greater part of their reserves in euros, an echo of the General's unsuccessful attempt to force America to its knees by selling dollars for gold.
Despite Putin's so far unsuccessful fight against terrorism, his popularity remains high, so he has the political capital to make tough internal reforms.
Fascist solutions were equally unsuccessful, as in Italy, unless accompanied by rapid rearmament, as in Germany.
A more recent indication that inflation targeting has not caused the disinflation seen since the 1990s is the unsuccessful effort by a growing number of central banks to reflate their economies.
Although the bigger EU countries have embarked on a policy to protect their industries as long as the crisis continues, they will doubtless be unsuccessful, because no country can ultimately halt structural adjustment by offering subsidies.
The roots of US strategy in Syria lie in a strange- and unsuccessful - union of two sources of American foreign policy.
Attempts to enlarge the SNC have been unsuccessful, owing to reservations expressed by some important groups, such as the Democratic Forum, about joining an organization that relies on foreign sponsors.
And, as recently as a few months ago, a French intellectual's activism was crucial to initiating the so-far unsuccessful attempt to bring down Libya's Colonel Muammar Qaddafi.
In fact, first attempts at spawning can be relatively unsuccessful, so a fisheries policy that depends for the most part just on first-time spawners (which is what we are approaching now), could be especially flawed.
We conducted a systematic review of published reports to identify the factors that cause unsuccessful TB treatment in Europe.
For example, one of the studies that we reviewed found that no standard therapy in the initial or secondary phase of treatment was associated with an unsuccessful outcome or death.
In Spain, homelessness was a risk factor for interruption and HIV positivity, and intravenous drug use was a risk factor for unsuccessful treatment.
Describing his unsuccessful attempts to obtain well-ordered X-ray diffraction patterns from crystals of the protein pepsin, he wondered whether Bernal could help obtain crystals of other proteins.
This in turn stimulated China's unsuccessful intervention in North Vietnam.
In the more unsuccessful countries - Italy, Austria, Germany, France, Portugal, and the Netherlands - the proportion of immigrants with a tertiary education is below a quarter.
A similar situation exists in the steel industry, where the central government has made repeated unsuccessful attempts to close small furnaces.
When former United States Secretary of State James Baker began his shuttle diplomacy for peace, his ultimately unsuccessful efforts actually resulted in more settlements, with a new one started just hours before he was due to arrive for talks.
Brief and less complex interventions were also unsuccessful in ending violent crises - and in some cases even exacerbated them.
Cameron's bid to thwart Juncker's candidacy mirrored his unsuccessful attempt to prevent the adoption of the EU's fiscal compact in 2012.
If there are elements powerful enough to plan such a plot - even an unsuccessful one - they could do it again in the future.
Thus, Hirohito might have been seeking to express his view that Japan should avoid a war with the US, especially given that the country had been fighting a savage and unsuccessful war of conquest in China for more than four years.
The Obama administration made several unsuccessful attempts in 2012 and 2013 to restart a dialogue with the Kremlin, but changed course in the summer of 2013, when Russia granted political asylum to former US intelligence contractor Edward Snowden.