To little avail: its market capitalisation is a mere €600m.
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Tillerson has tried to clean up Trump's messes, but to little avail.
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Residents took to the rubble with shovels and sticks, to little avail.
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This was also the advice Facebook got for 2018, to little avail.
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Of course other companies have tried creating similar advertising platforms, to little avail.
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On Twitter, both tried to populate the hashtag #answersforangela, but to little avail.
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Ostadhassan contacted family in Iran, trying to track down divorce records, to little avail.
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They have led attempts to create a universal Islamic calendar, but to little avail.
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The Democrats have pursued suburban Republican voters since long before 2016, to little avail.
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The moderator pleads with the audience to keep neutral, to little avail so far.
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This idea has a slight problem, Verrilli explained to little avail: It wouldn't work.
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For Ramos, it was to little avail: He remained a persistent but unspectacular player.
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But his proclamations were to little avail: Three of the undecided voters went to Mrs.
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After all, Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono, Jokowi's predecessor, also promised to halt deforestation, to little avail.
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And Putin knows how much effort John Kerry has invested in this to little avail.
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They kick it over and over, hoping to break it down, but to little avail.
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Its leaders have asked for help from the Pentagon, courts, and Congress to little avail.
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That's an argument the President has repeatedly pressed over the past weeks to little avail.
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She now offers signing bonuses for carriers and incentives for outstanding service, to little avail.
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But Mr. Priebus has had similar conversations over many months with Mr. Trump, to little avail.
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Republicans spent an entire primary cycle searching for Donald J. Trump's weak spot, to little avail.
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For years, the United States has engaged in backchannel talks with the Taliban to little avail.
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Since then, other brands have forayed into the Golden Arches' hallowed territory — but to little avail.
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In the past, the actor has admonished his fans for the practice, but to little avail.
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Luis Enrique, Barcelona's coach, tried to change the momentum of the game, but to little avail.
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Turkey has protested the violation of the agreement and held talks with Russia, to little avail.
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In the past decade the island's government has enacted various reform plans, but to little avail.
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He added that the company has continued to bring good bikes to market, but to little avail.
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Outside the building, local pro-democracy lawmakers pleaded with protesters to exercise restraint, but to little avail.
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The US, which has prodded Pyongyang to abandon its nuclear program to little avail, balked at the demand.
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The company has tried to force more uniformity across the vast world of Android devices, to little avail.
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Officials have toyed with various countermeasures, such as hiking stamp duty for some buyers, but to little avail.
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Juniper smeared on the penis, he notes, was seen as so potent that German towns outlawed, to little avail.
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That means the producers have a couple of Avengers to help lead them into battle, alas, to little avail.
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However, the Obama administration also tried to get the Pakistanis to rein in the Haqqani Network, to little avail.
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But, as many people pointed out, often to little avail, Trump's conflicts of interest are unprecedented in American history.
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The government of Delhi closed all the city's schools and instituted sweeping measures to limit traffic, to little avail.
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Television news images showed helicopters and planes trying to douse the out-of-control fires, apparently to little avail.
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Jay Inslee of Washington has insisted — to little avail — that party officials reserve a debate exclusively for climate change.
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House Republicans long ago seized on the dossier as evidence that the Russia investigation was tainted, to little avail.
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Republicans in the rooms seemed stunned and continually attempted to steer the president back to their priorities to little avail.
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Veterans of past administrations have tried imparting this to him to little avail, according to people familiar with the conversations.
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Conductors like Leonard Slatkin, Gerard Schwarz, Marin Alsop and others have tried to bring attention to them, to little avail.
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There's no public dialogue between the two extremes while a quieter middle tries to get something done, to little avail yet.
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Sure enough, media members shot their shots and asked the New England head coach and quarterback during availability, to little avail.
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China has promoted the idea of a peace treaty from time to time over the past two decades, to little avail.
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Verne was an anti-Dreyfusard, but his son Michel was a Dreyfusard who tried to change his father's mind, to little avail.
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City officials have reportedly been spraying Volgograd Arena and the nearby marshlands with insecticide for the last few days, to little avail.
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When he returned, he lived mostly in New York City, auditioning for acting jobs and sending off writing samples, to little avail.
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Before Volcker came into office, the Fed had tried small increases in interest rates in hopes of taming inflation, to little avail.
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The industry worked with government in 2013 to try to get British job seekers to take up picking jobs, but to little avail.
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Conservatives duly push marriage as the antidote: the federal government has spent almost a billion dollars on pro-marriage programmes, to little avail.
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Human rights groups, some members of Congress and the United Nations have expressed concern about Saudi Arabia's actions for months to little avail.
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To little avail: The number of leaks is jumping, particularly in the U.S., according to the latest numbers from Intralinks and the University of London.
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Even the idea of stepping up pressure on China to rein in a defiant North Korea has been tried — to little avail — by successive administrations.
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For the last two years, I've tried different medications, switched birth control pills, made lifestyle changes (less stress, more swimming, no alcohol) — to little avail.
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Just because something flies in a primary doesn't mean it can work in the general election — something Clinton's allies have been arguing to little avail.
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For decades, our government has attempted to address one of the most pressing health care problems in our country — skyrocketing drug prices — to little avail.
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Natural law-based arguments for fetal personhood were pursued by anti-abortion scholars and jurists for much of the 1960s and 1970s to little avail.
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Moon began his presidency by positing Seoul as open for negotiations with Pyongyang, to little avail from North Korean Supreme Leader Kim Jong-un's administration.
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Already House Speaker Paul Ryan has made large concessions to the bill, to try to appease the party's most conservative faction — but to little avail.
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It seems to have planted a seed in Hamilton's head, and perhaps even manifested itself in him chasing his setup tail to little avail in Singapore.
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President Joko Widodo spoke up for the rights of L.G.B.T. citizens late last year, but to little avail; the wave of raids began the next month.
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She routed Pete D'Alessandro, who led Senator Bernie Sanders's 2016 caucus campaign in Iowa — and earned his former boss's endorsement in this race, to little avail.
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She did interviews -- including on CNN -- to try and improve the President's souring view of her, the source close to Nielsen said, but to little avail.
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Duck, but Democrats grilled him — to little avail — about issues like his role in approving harsh interrogation techniques as a lawyer for President George W. Bush.
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Pauline Hanson, a populist senator who made her name then, warning that Australia would be "swamped" by Asians, has started fulminating about Muslims instead, to little avail.
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China has over the years tried to coax North Korea into cautious, export-oriented economic reforms, rather than sabre rattling and nuclear tests, but to little avail.
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But mobile security researchers say they already confronted Adups, and warned vendors who sold its products, about the backdoors over the last few years, to little avail.
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Merkel, along with France's leader, has since tried to convince Russia and Ukraine to implement a fragile ceasefire agreement under the 'Minsk' agreement but to little avail.
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But with Jeb Bush funneling millions into attack ads every week, to little avail, you have to wonder if Jeb would be better off with a different strategy.
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Health and food safety officials have long pulled out their hair trying to warn the public about the risks of raw dairy products, including death, to little avail.
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While its lawyers tried to assuage Alsup's concerns, to little avail, Uber still maintained its stance following the disclosure of the Jacobs letter and his testimony on Tuesday.
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De Blasio's vehicle for his national ambitions was a non-profit group called Progressive Agenda, which flourished briefly in 2015 and managed to spend $860,000 to little avail.
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The embattled presidents of Guatemala and Honduras, both leading governments that face corruption allegations, tried to appease him and ordered security forces to halt the groups — to little avail.
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The group posted a statement there in February that said it had been lobbying for five years for new appliances to have fully fire-resistant backing — to little avail.
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During the week, Nielsen did interviews -- including on CNN -- to try and improve the President's souring view of her, a source close to Nielsen said, but to little avail.
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Cibulkova, who arrived on the Arthur Ashe Stadium court brimming with confidence after toppling Wimbledon champion Angelique Kerber in the previous round, countered with a similarly aggressive game to little avail.
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Members of both parties have urged the president to speak out more forcefully on behalf of demonstrators resisting what they call Beijing's tightening grip over the semiautonomous island territory, to little avail.
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His first chief of staff, Reince Priebus, told an audience at Duke University this week that he had lobbied the President to little avail on how he should tweet during last year's campaign.
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The former Federal Reserve chairman Ben Bernanke, originally a George W. Bush nominee, spent years imploring Congress to spend more money in the near term to try to boost growth, to little avail.
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He knew that various people in various places at Google and elsewhere had been trying to make neural translation work — not in a lab but at production scale — for years, to little avail.
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In America, by contrast, champions of workers' rights have recently focused on raising the minimum wage (so far to little avail at the federal level, though some states have enacted more generous wage floors).
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Interest rates have been raised to their practical limit, the IMF has already been called in to little avail, and the country has only limited international reserves to use in defense of its currency.
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He said lawmakers had appealed to members of the Trump administration who hail from the area, like Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin and Gary Cohn, the president's top economic adviser, but so far to little avail.
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"Phaedra(s)," directed by Krzysztof Warlikowski, a Polish theater and opera director with a distinguished-sounding line of credits, stars the versatile French actor Isabelle Huppert, who gives a performance of terrific commitment, to little avail.
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In the meantime, I had a new thought on claims that corporate tax cuts will produce lots of economic growth – a different way to make the "leprechaun economics" point I've been making repeatedly, to little avail.
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Black leaders argued for full employment in the press and on the floor of Congress, urged vetoes of draconian legislation and drafted their own bills to support community-led anti-crime programs — and all to little avail.
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Thanksgiving is about sneaking mouthfuls of whipped cream straight from the can, trying to pace your wine intake to little avail, and that family game that involves going around the table and saying one thing you're grateful for.
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He has been effective in his handling of influential trade unions, and is likely to press for more efficient use of costly capital goods such as robots—the firm is notorious for investing heavily in them to little avail.
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"To be honest, the Chinese have been trying to engage successive North Korean leaders in the idea of embracing Chinese market reforms, taking growth triangles seriously, and opening up key sectors of the North Korean economy to little avail," said O'Neil.
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By law, the president of the council must be a Chinese citizen and not hold the right of abode elsewhere, and the pro-democratic camp insisted, to little avail, that Leung had not shown sufficient proof that he'd renounced his British citizenship.
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The state was not a major focus of campaigning or ad buys by the candidates, though Mike Bloomberg, with his essentially unlimited financial resources, still spent millions on TV ads and tried to build out a field operation, apparently to little avail.
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It was to little avail: The Senate went ahead and passed a tax bill early on Saturday, promoted as relief for the middle class, that mainly benefits corporations and the rich — and that many economists say offers little or nothing for the poor.
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The phone does appear to have been put in a case to try and hide its identity to little avail—but seeing as pretty much everything that can be seen in the photos already emerged in the prior leaks, there's not many surprises here.
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Pediatricians and parents alike have spent years trying to improve this process, to little avail, but a small new study in the journal Pediatrics has shown that a flavored spray, called Pill Glide, may make pill-taking a lot more flavorful -- and maybe even enjoyable.
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As Menenius, a Roman senator and supporter of Coriolanus' bid for consulship, Patrick Page gives a smooth, beautifully spoken performance, his suave baritone and patrician bearing ideally suited to the character, who eventually tries to persuade Coriolanus to return to the fold, to little avail.
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The public outcry over the episode has intensified after the home said that its staff, or people calling on their behalf, had contacted the governor himself, as well as the power utility and several county and state agencies, to get the problem resolved, to little avail.
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Over the past two years, Chinese officials have brokered three meetings between leaders of the two countries, made multiple visits to the sprawling refugee camps housing the Rohingya in Bangladesh, hired cattle trucks to bring returnees home and even offered cash inducements, all to little avail.
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In 2007, the establishment candidate, Hillary ClintonHillary Diane Rodham ClintonHillary Clinton: Trump using 'racist' rhetoric to distract from failures Biden has broken all the 'rules' of presidential primaries Trump taps new director for National Counterterrorism Center MORE, cornered scores of high-level endorsements — far more than Barack Obama — to little avail.
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In the eyes of skeptics, the Herbalife "business opportunity" bore some resemblance to the American economy as a whole: a triangle in which the top one per cent of distributors received almost ninety per cent of the financial rewards, while those below tried to claw their way up the chain, often to little avail.
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On the advice of sleep doctors, fatigue-management specialists, and know-it-alls on wellness blogs, these tossers and turners drink cherry juice, eat Atlantic perch, set the bedroom thermostat between sixty-seven and seventy degrees, put magnets under the pillow, curl their toes, uncurl their toes, and kick their partners out of bed, usually to little avail.
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But this Instagram post came before all that – it is playfully captioned, sure, but we can all agree that being grinded on by Rihanna on British national television was probably the pinnacle of Drake's whole existence, and he has probably spent his life since chasing the fleeting happiness that the simultaneous feelings of the warmth of her butt on his crotch and the knowledge of being watched by literal millions brought him, to little avail.
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