All to no avail.

I tried in vain to persuade them.

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

I m trying to understand what is happening.

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

Sami searched for his children in Egypt but in vain.

Forces from the Allies attempted unsuccessfully to defend the islands.

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

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.

But as a means to job creation there are questions.

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

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

Thus, the Board is concerned that the preparations undertaken so far could to some extent become irrelevant if the funding arrangements, as well as the appropriate legal arrangements, are not promptly finalized.

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

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.

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

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

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

The viability of establishing a regional institution (e.g., for the monitoring and evaluation of development and the implementation of national plans and programmes of action should be explored.

The Employment Act prohibits employment of persons under specific ages such as the prohibition of young persons under 18 years to work to ships.

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

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

It's useless to argue.

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

She proposed that the human rights treaty bodies should be contacted and asked for comments on the usefulness of further work in this area.

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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.

SCN coordination activity has been able to maximize the usefulness of the work on NEO astrometry of many professional and amateur observers around the world.

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.

The feasibility of periodic reviews of the global status of volunteerism that would take stock and highlight major developments in voluntary action around the world and provide inputs for United Nations publications, might also be considered.

The workshop report, along with the draft terms of reference for a feasibility study on an ozone depleting substanceODS tracking system, will be discussed by the meetingWorking Group

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.

The IMF adopted the agenda wholeheartedly, and its leadership sought (unsuccessfully) to amend the Articles of Agreement to give the Fund formal powers over capital account policies in its member states.

The feasibility of potential income generating activities has been tested.