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Efforts to reach officials of other companies that make the drug were unavailing.

Efforts to reach officers of the group were unavailing last night.

I will not explain, and an explanation would be unavailing.

He tried a little longer to get something from the prisoners, but his efforts were unavailing.

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

Efforts to get comment from the people under investigation were unavailing.

The efforts of his many friends were, however, unavailing, and he was executed in November 1824.

But all his arguments proved in the long run unavailing, and it did go on.

The jogger case was the second of his unavailing efforts.

Efforts to locate the mother or to confirm this were unavailing.

Efforts to reach him by telephone at his chambers and home were unavailing.

Attempts to reach his Washington lawyer were unavailing; she was said to be out until late tonight.

But after several hours' ransacking of the house, our search had been unavailing.

In the past, there were unavailing attempts to mine chalk.

She has an unpublished telephone number, and efforts to reach her were unavailing.

Small steps by timid leaders had proved unavailing for a century.

A reporter's attempts to speak to a person in the apartment two weeks ago were unavailing.

Complaints to the motel owners and to the police had been unavailing.

She had not thought he would stay so long at the unavailing door, but it was the only place she knew to look.

Subsequent efforts by their lawyers and prosecutors to reach a deal were unavailing.

Efforts to reach the men by radiophone yesterday were unavailing.

Efforts to reach the Stewart family or their lawyer by telephone last night were unavailing.

Purely national solutions to problems of corporate control are likely, therefore, to be unavailing.

For weeks the efforts to close the crevasse had proven unavailing.

Efforts to reach most of the suspended board members for comment late yesterday were unavailing.