"unsuccessful" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- If anything, their so-far unsuccessful crusade has brought them closer together.
- However, his reign was far from perfect for everyone: he made unsuccessful crusades, his expanding administrations raised opposition, and he burned Jewish books at the Pope's urging.
- King Philip III of France died there in 1285, as he was returning from his unsuccessful crusade against the Aragonese Crown.
- He went to the Senate, where he spent seven years on a Judiciary subcommittee in an unsuccessful legislative crusade to break up the major oil companies and other locuses of corporate power before moving on to a Foriegn Relations panel and an investigation into the influence of multinational corporations on American foreign policy.
- She testified before Congress, waging an unsuccessful crusade to enact legislation for mandatory AIDS testing of health care workers and to regulate the placement of those infected with the virus.
- After Władysław Warneńczyk's unsuccessful crusade in 1444, the city was destroyed by the Ottomans and moved to its present location.
- Cyprus' prosperity reached its zenith under King Peter I (r 1359-69), who mounted an unsuccessful crusade in 1365 that only managed to achieve the sacking of Alexandria.
- United baggage handlers allegedly damaged Dave's $3,500 guitar during a flight, and following an unsuccessful nine-month crusade to be reimbursed for the damages, Dave finally told a United customer relations manager that his last resort was to make a music video about his ordeal.
- The troops of Holy Roman Emperor Sigismund and Polish King Władysław III of Varna passed through the fortress during their unsuccessful crusades (the Battle of Nicopolis and the Battle of Varna, respectively) against the Ottoman Empire.
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