(1) The second response to the sterility objection - that a procreation requirement would be unduly intrusive - is equally unavailing .

(2) My own search for this has proven unavailing , so I thought I'd call on my readers' knowledge in this matter.

(3) The u2018lastu2019 in last resort can mean u2018only,u2019 in circumstances where there is plausible reason to believe that nonmilitary actions are unavailable or unavailing .

(4) Monty did make a magnificent eagle at the final hole - his approach finished no more than a yard from the cup - to haul himself up to an unavailing eight-over par.

(5) Inquiries made of the sellers and their forwarding agents after the event were unavailing because they were either elusive or unco-operative or both.

(6) Years of strenuous effort to prove the case have been unavailing .

(7) Finally, when that proved unavailing , I put my hand on the punk's chest, shoved him off his board, and finished out my ride.

(8) It is still unclear whether virtual education is really less expensive, and attempts to assess comprehensively the effectiveness of educational programs have been unavailing .

(9) This has been compounded by an unavailing resort to extreme force in the most heated zones of engagement.

(10) And maybe they are especially corrupting when they are unavailing : Suppose your ex-con doesn't care, and won't behave.

(11) The reformist road to socialism was unavailing , but the reformist road to a more humane capitalism doesn't look much more hopeful.

(12) The students' petition proved unavailing , as were Professor Day's own efforts to persuade the administration to reconsider its position.

(13) Henry, their eldest child, grew up on their small selection, witnessing his father's unavailing struggle to make a living as a farmer and prospector, and the slow disintegration of his parents' marriage.

(14) Having rejected an unavailing reformist road to socialism, they now believed they had reformed capitalism substantially enough that the interests of workers and capitalists coincided.

(15) Detroit Aircraft's frantic efforts to regain stability were unavailing and, in October, the corporation floundered into receivership.

(16) Tens of thousands of fruit flies have come and gone in laboratory experiments, and every last one of them has remained a fruit fly to the end, all efforts to see the miracle of speciation unavailing .

(17) Cambridge did not grant women degrees until 1948, but in March 1897 Maitland delivered a superb if unavailing address favoring the women's cause.

(18) And third, we have rights where ordinary economic and political levers of change prove unavailing in efforts to improve individual well-being.

(19) I have taken the other side of the unavailing inflation u2018debate,u2019 arguing that inflation is anything but dead and bond prices anything but a sure bet.

(20) When their controls proved unavailing , and the charges failed to meet their exacting code of conduct, they could be seen meting out punishments that were also immoderate, disproportionate to the supposed offense.

(21) But what really incensed the Americans was the moment when a supposedly impartial linesman openly massaged Tiriac's cramping leg and, unavailingly , urged him on to victory.

(22) They looked eagerly but unavailingly for u2018some business that we can carry on in connection with our trap-business, to which we can shift our help when our trap-trade slackens up.u2019

(23) Just occasionally, perhaps, we should have the humility to see the awfulness of the world that they inhabit, and which they strive so unavailingly to control.

(24) This is a mantra which must be engraved in the wall at Tannadice, because it's the line which Paul Sturrock repeated endlessly and unavailingly .

(25) This ambition took on new life with the outbreak of war, the steel company lobbying the government - unavailingly - for resources to build it.