All to no avail.

Under pressure from scientists worldwide, Indonesia agreed in June to share genetic data on some of its viral samples, but not the actual microbes.

Continuing their attempts at suicide, they try to kill themselves five times but in vain.

Last month alone, they visited five large cities without success.

I tried in vain to persuade them.

Regulators have struggled with the problem for years without finding a solution.

You try straining it through cheesecloth, but it doesn t do much good.

I m trying to understand what is happening.

But no policy makes sense if it cannot be sustained without long term government support.

Late in 1944 all efforts were redirected towards countering the advancing Red Army, but to no avail.

The British Liberal Democrats, for example, have tried for decades to become a strong centrist third party, without success.

It was useless and it caused me a lot of physical and psychological pain.

Prior to this policy, the British had spent 15 years and countless funds repressing and punishing the tribes, without result.

Sami searched for his children in Egypt but in vain.

Forces from the Allies attempted unsuccessfully to defend the islands.

In 2007, Hawass threatened to ban exhibitions of Egyptian artifacts in Germany if Nefertiti was not lent to Egypt, but to no avail.

In 1934, he tried without success to build ties with France, Germany, and the Balkan states, and Albania drifted back into the Italian orbit.

You say nuclear to them, and they're thinking, Oh my God, we're all gone. What's the point? It's futile.

At the same time, tax laws have been revised to make investors wealthier in the near term, discouraging long term investment in research.

Away from our blue, virtual world, you look at yourself and find that you re the only one whose pertinences have disappeared.

But as a means to job creation there are questions.

For two and a half years, the European Union has made every effort to get Iran to cooperate fully with the IAEA and come clean about its nuclear activities, to no avail.

And Anonymous International would be nothing if it didn't allude to Medvedev's foolish reputation. This tweet refers to Medvedev's infatuation with photography, perhaps alluding to his infamously embarrassing elevator selfie.

Numerous NGOs and public figures had contacted the Government in order to prevent her deportation to Spain, but without success.

That mistake was made by the Japanese, who tried, unsuccessfully, to muddle through, only to end up with 18 years of stagnation.

In 2000, Backlund unsuccessfully ran for a Connecticut seat in Congress on a Republican ticket.

It's useless to argue.

In the year since Palestinians and Israelis renewed their commitment to their obligations under the road map, we may have failed to reach a conclusive settlement to our conflict, but that does not mean that the efforts made were in vain.

It is not necessary to recount the consequences.

There is no use holding onto illusions.

Whoever did this horrible massacre got no human feelings, brainwashed to the level that he became a killing machine that does not differentiate what about what is right or wrong as a human to kill a child in that way.

But is the system being so delegitimized by the economic and social turmoil that elections will no longer be viable?

But the simple truth is that buying non organic is far more cost effective, more humane, and more environmentally responsible.

African countries search endlessly, and mostly fruitlessly, for the small amounts of funding needed for their purchases of fertilizer and improved seeds.

We know that from such cases as that of John Moore, who tried unsuccessfully to claim property rights in a valuable cell line developed from his immune cells.

But, without any notion of power sharing, this is easier said than done.

When I finally arrived in Istanbul I went to a hostel first with some friends and tried very hard to find a job. But it was all in vain.

NATO has been trying for years without success to get its member states to spend the required 2 of GDP on defense.

On 10 December, within six months of his birth, Mary of Modena took baby James to France, worried about his safety, while his father continued to fight (unsuccessfully) to retain his crown.

Its work had been productive, but the momentum created to follow up the Johannesburg Plan of Implementation needed to be maintained.

The future promises peace without development.

But without discussion, democracy is surely doomed.

But if this capacity is impaired, neither the low road of protection nor the high road of free trade can do much good.

In the past, several initiatives had been tried by the people of Puerto Rico, such as proposals to the United States Congress and the President, regarding plebiscites, referendums and even legal actions, with no results.

Activists have been pursuing this approach to tackling global warming without success for nearly 20 years, most recently at last December s failed climate summit in Copenhagen.