Camille Jordan was not the only person who made unavailing efforts to arrest Bonaparte in the first steps of his ambition.

The brown scales, too, had evidently undergone rigid discipline, in an unavailing effort to rub off the rust, which, alas!

They fell upon the ladder, and he ran to it, and with strenuous but unavailing effort sought to raise it from the ground.

And at least you will not have worn yourself out with unavailing efforts.

Young Edmundson looked mildly amused as he watched my unavailing efforts but Helen smiled encouragingly as she caught my eye.

With February's talks on Nagorno-Karabakh unavailing and diplomatic efforts in fits and starts, Russia's support is considered crucial for Armenia.

He made a brave, desperate, but unavailing effort to cheer us all up.

The jogger case was the second of his unavailing efforts.

His efforts unavailing, the physician returned into the house.

Admirable, if so far unavailing, efforts have been made to end the conflict in Yugoslavia.