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He attempted to escape multiple times but to no avail.
I probably asked a half dozen strangers to no avail.
But it was to no avail — the polls barely budged.
His parents attempt to reason with him, to no avail.
He has tried to communicate with her, to no avail.
I tried to "click" it back in, to no avail.
I tried to find other unblockable profiles to no avail.
She, and my nieces, tried to resuscitate to no avail.
I kept hitting refresh, over and over to no avail.
He tried to hand Henson the microphone — to no avail.
All of this, so far, has been to no avail.
Emergency responders tried to administer CPR but to no avail.
Volunteers have helped authorities search for Quintal, to no avail.
For years, they've tried to have children to no avail.
"I begged and pleaded," she said, but to no avail.
F. looked for her once in America, to no avail.
The Klimaseniorinnen try to charm them, but to no avail.
Mayor Rudolph W. Giuliani tried for president, to no avail.
Mr. Bloomberg strongly objected to the monitor, to no avail.
Gaetz tried appealing to the House parliamentarian to no avail.
"One at a time," a moderator interjected, to no avail.
The Defense Department whispered about his patriotism — to no avail.
Callas's Tosca tries to shut him up, to no avail.
Ahmed asked for the phone back, but to no avail.
Oosthuizen tried to bend the club back but to no avail.
Sunday night following a domestic violence call but to no avail.
He said he tried to reason with students, to no avail.
"Please don't put this on Youtube," he added, to no avail.
TechCrunch reached out to the ministry several times to no avail.
US automakers have screamed about this for decades, to no avail.
Shareholders have grumbled about pay at Naspers before, to no avail.
I tried to offer my PB&J sandwich to no avail.
She said she has appealed several times, but to no avail.
Boston also had three baserunners to no avail in the seventh.
Bezeq, Israel's largest telecoms company, appealed the decision to no avail.
The bank tried repeatedly to contact Mr Cotten, to no avail.
Many victims made phone calls to the FBI to no avail.
We're told Scott's friends have tried to intervene to no avail.
Many adults had attempted to capture her, but to no avail.
They put a chokehold on the senator, but to no avail.
Manager Bryan Price came out to argue, but to no avail.
He spent hours blocking and reporting abusive posts, to no avail.
They advise families to stay away but sometimes to no avail.
They spent a lot of time in Pennsylvania — to no avail.
One detainee filed multiple requests for specialty care, to no avail.
Trump made the request on several occasions -- each to no avail.
I also tried turning off Samsung's Scene Optimizer to no avail.
It was to no avail — until Mills gave it a shot.
Microsoft employees also have protested, but thus far to no avail.
Several of the victims tried this process to no avail, though.
They spent a lot of time in Pennsylvania to no avail.
Officers say they tried to talk Gaines down to no avail.
They tried to negotiate with a mayoral commission to no avail.
She asked about a job in the kitchen, to no avail.
He had been seeking truffles for two hours, to no avail.
One shows the antidepressants one survivor takes daily to no avail.
He said he tried all types of treatment, to no avail.
Charleston Coach Earl Grant was understandably apoplectic, but to no avail.
The commissioner tried reaching him, to no avail, the person said.
Ms. Raymond searched for more than two years, to no avail.
The Conservatives courted them in the 2017 election, to no avail.
But we've heard this song many times before to no avail.
I again begged to remain in the communities, to no avail.
Pirates manager Clint Hurdle argued to no avail and was ejected.
Both soon recanted, saying they were coerced, but to no avail.
Ms. A-B- attempted to secure state protection to no avail.
It was to no avail — he was ordered back to Iran.
Many men tried to oppress St. Margaret, but to no avail.
Residents tried to convince the manager otherwise, but to no avail.
She said she urged him to calm down, to no avail.
She and Jim tried to have a baby, to no avail.
Faced with an unforgiving predicament, Peters sprawled out to no avail.
Search parties combed the area for two months, to no avail.
She also contacted several city and state monitors, to no avail.
Kristol met with Romney in early May, again to no avail.
Tuttle repeatedly asked for a refund through mid-March, to no avail.
Guzman says he again pleaded with Singer to stop, to no avail.
She performs a spell over Jon's body, but seemingly to no avail.
Toki says it tried settling with Ye and Co., to no avail.
Family and friends spent days trying to contact Eastman, to no avail.
Hashian was treated with CPR and a defibrillator onboard, to no avail.
Many, many people tried to explain this to Pierson—to no avail.
The NFL sought to get the case dismissed, but to no avail.
Phillips said searchers scoured the park all day Sunday, to no avail.
Nathan tried to make things right with them but to no avail.
Some neighbors claim they've tried reaching out to Zuckerberg, to no avail.
Pollock struck out as he flailed to no avail at a changeup.
The band urged Trump to stop using the song, to no avail.
When that did not work, it complained publicly, again to no avail.
TechCrunch sent several emails to Guardzilla prior to publication, to no avail.
Ken tried to track her down in North Carolina, to no avail.
New York City officials tried to track it down, to no avail.
They did remove the goaltender for an extra attacker, to no avail.
Isakson said he discussed the matter with Flake, but to no avail.
Employees asked Palantir leadership to cancel the ICE contract, to no avail.
Using a screwdriver, he tried to cut it open, to no avail.
Marsch switched to three strikers, then back to two, to no avail.
Have we become a community of lampooners repeating ourselves to no avail?
In fact, A$AP tried to diffuse the situation, to no avail.
I have complained to the super and building management, to no avail.
R&O has requested copies of the invoices, but to no avail.
Sometimes you'll spend an hour on just one question to no avail.
Meanwhile, Piper (Taylor Schilling) scrambles desperately to keep up, to no avail.
He spoke to the government and scooter companies, but to no avail.
The person showed up Thursday, knocked on Aaron's door, to no avail.
Veterinarians had tried to save its life all week, to no avail.
Japan repeatedly attempted to negotiate with the Russians but to no avail.
We went down that path with fat and carbs, to no avail.
I retraced my steps in the city that night to no avail.
They sent a letter to the cafe demanding changes, to no avail.
The Americans had tried calling their usual contacts but to no avail.
Mr. Feldman, 57, put a hand against the opening, to no avail.
They hoped to get medical help for her condition, to no avail.
His delegates held signs reading, "Let Jerry Speak," but to no avail.
One of his teammates tried to warn him but to no avail.
He said he tried to reason with some students, but to no avail.
The Verge has reached out to Walmart for comment, but to no avail.
Executives at the network leaned on him to stay, but to no avail.
Jughead tries to get him to finish that thought later, to no avail.
We have tried to negotiate a settlement with the creditors to no avail.
Moderators tried to incite a conflict between the two, but to no avail.
Mr Ghosn had previously invited FCA to join the alliance, to no avail.
The remaining accusations are ones that have been published before to no avail.
A finger jabs repeatedly at the box with Trump's name to no avail.
I've found myself searching for themes like that this season, to no avail.
Syria first submitted a film for Oscar consideration last year, to no avail.
He would make at least six attempts to get clean, to no avail.
Giuliani seems to relish in touting himself in the lobby, to no avail.
A quick ground search was conducted near the car, but to no avail.
Many of the users tried a number of different fixes to no avail.
I've tried a few workarounds over the last few months to no avail.
The former presses Durant to help her get Aidan released, to no avail.
He has urged drug companies to move to smaller drops — to no avail.
She logged repeated calls to a company anti-harassment hotline, to no avail.
From April to August, Frauenfelder tried hacking into his vault, to no avail.
Plenty of women have been as careful as they could, to no avail.
He complained through every legal channel and whistleblower-protection law to no avail.
The producers at DR hired a researcher to find him, to no avail.
Other neighbors apparently came down and tried to calm Resnicow, to no avail.
Mr. Garza and the director of his ambulance company protested, to no avail.
The people of Honduras have protested the Supreme Court decision to no avail.
The U.K. pressed the U.S. to waive immunity to no avail, CNN reports.
The Iraqi government has demanded that Turkey recall its troops, to no avail.
Almost involuntarily, she found herself apologizing and begging to stay, to no avail.
He said he has been waiting for McConnell to negotiate to no avail.
Mr. Mejia tried pulling him up by his shirt, but to no avail.
For years, he applied for tags through the lottery system, to no avail.
They try to get her to nap with them, often to no avail.
The House panels have been pursuing the documents for weeks to no avail.
His baseball coaches pushed him not to play basketball, usually to no avail.
Grassley's staff spent the day trying to contact Ford's attorneys to no avail.
I failed out and went through a series of rehabs to no avail.
Now let's say the MAC denies your claim; you object, to no avail.
He decided to try it again two pitches later, but to no avail.
She tried to land a similar job at another bank, to no avail.
Mr. Zhou's protests that he was a mere amateur were to no avail.
She also made rare calls to two union bosses, though to no avail.
They couldn't feel a pulse, so CPR was performed ... but to no avail.
The assistant teacher had threatened him with suspension from class, to no avail.
She claims to have sent numerous cease and desist letters, but to no avail.
In fact, it's spent millions of dollars on its diversity efforts, to no avail.
Assyrian cultural organizations and politicians protested and notified the KRG — all to no avail.
Over the years, Zahedi has occasionally tried his luck in Hollywood, to no avail.
Their fight is almost comical at first — Danny hits Luke repeatedly, to no avail.
Other attempts to track down the ship have been made before, to no avail.
Thinking she was losing her mind, she consulted doctors and therapists to no avail.
Their story was profiled on national TV shows like Unsolved Mysteries, to no avail.
Del Taco points out this guy filed the same suit before to no avail.
The doctor warned me, but to no avail: I got drunk again that night.
Some residents have reportedly tried to contact The Wall Master himself, to no avail.
Bob Corker (R-TN) about Trump's tweet threatening Kim multiple times, to no avail.
In 2014 Mr Xi himself ordered that they be torn down, to no avail.
Last weekend, I searched six stores for a hammock and stand to no avail.
And the GOP actually tried to shame him for it, but to no avail.
Mansour says he had applied for asylum in Turkey multiple times to no avail.
Giving up almost an inch of height, Paul crowds Porzingis' space to no avail.
Black, 73, and his stepson attempted to fight off Harper, but to no avail.
We tried to track her down to give it back, but to no avail.
He ran into the chamber, attempting to cast his ballot, but to no avail.
Since then, Saito and his attorneys have pushed for his release to no avail.
Kelley tried to publish both of these novels during his lifetime, to no avail.
The Houston Rockets tried mightily to sign Llull last summer, but to no avail.
They tried several unorthodox therapies, including surrounding him with a harem, to no avail.
They threw everything they had at the pragmatist incumbent, Hassan Rouhani, to no avail.
She said she's tried FEMA's 1-800 number for locating people, to no avail.
He fought the cancellation to no avail and eventually agreed to a compromise solution.
After that, they tried several more times to go to sleep, to no avail.
Casals and Teeguarden said people tried approaching WTA throughout the years to no avail.
Noor said he had instead tried to gain entrance into Canada—to no avail.
TechCrunch spent a week trying to contact the developer, React Apps, to no avail.
More than 90,000 people signed an online petition protesting the renaming, to no avail.
Mr. Ghandour said the company did attempt to fix some issues, to no avail.
The scout flagged the player, Jadon Sancho, to his superiors, but to no avail.
He noted that more than $20 million was spent on Ossoff to no avail.
When I arrived at my hotel I tried a different charger, to no avail.
Ms. Nixon, after all, deployed similar tactics in a statewide race to no avail.
We're told she hoped to stage an intervention with June ... but to no avail.
I tried and tried to think myself into the vat, but to no avail.
BPD rushed to the scene (🚨🚓💨🚔🚨), but to no avail.
The call brought Casey out of the dugout to argue, but to no avail.
Schumer had been negotiating with Vice President Mike Pence last weekend, to no avail.
Over the next year, she went on a handful of interviews to no avail.
Cameron Collins called him back three more times, apparently to no avail, as well.
Olazábal tried anti-inflammatories and cortisone shots, to no avail, and endured countless tests.
They have challenged the dividend sweep in court, but so far to no avail.
Meanwhile, she desperately called her daughter's cellphone, over and over again, to no avail.
Pyrotechnicians have been trying to produce brilliant blue fireworks for centuries, to no avail.
On Friday, Schumer attempted to negotiate an immigration deal with Trump, to no avail.
Edilberto Alatorre said he had also tried to reach his brother, to no avail.
But his effort was to no avail: Presley signed a contract with RCA instead.
Paramedics worked on Heron for 40 minutes trying to revive him, to no avail.
IMH sent a letter to Carter in August demanding its funds ... to no avail.
"The doctors tried to bring her back to life but to no avail," he said.
Democrats have tried to get McConnell to approve the House-passed bills, to no avail.
Vedder had been hired last year to mediate in the dispute, but to no avail.
Sweeny tried that for Keezley, because she was already taking long walks to no avail.
The tabby jumps around the backyard trying to catch the falling flakes to no avail.
Rangers right-hander Doug Fister (1-5) had another strong road start to no avail.
In protest, she went on a three-day hunger strike in September to no avail.
I've tried to catch up Fox's hit series at least three times to no avail.
She was nominated to serve on DC's federal district court, to no avail, last April.
They have challenged it in the constitutional court three times since 2002, to no avail.
Oliver tries to perform CPR on the clearly-dead Simon, but it's to no avail.
Seemingly to no avail: European competition authorities are poised to block the deal next month.
The next day, Noelle attempts to report the incident to the administration, to no avail.
I sat there for an hour, periodically launching treats across the apartment, to no avail.
The federal health ministry dispatched senior officials, hoping to placate them, but to no avail.
NASA has pinged it over 1,000 times in those gloomy eight months, to no avail.
Carl told me he tried to reach out to The Dice Dog to no avail.
We've been trying to get an update for days, to no avail -- no one's talking.
This time she took more care to distance herself from her father, to no avail.
Directed by two courteous employees to an elevator, we pressed the button, to no avail.
He tried in vain to convince the super to let him inside ... to no avail.
Mexican border agents attempted to stop them at the Mexican border, but to no avail.
Since then, other lawmakers have introduced similar versions of that amendment, but to no avail.
The family immediately started working to alert rescuers in Hope Springs, but to no avail.
The Justice Department has previously asked the Supreme Court to intervene, but to no avail.
Ms. Bell tried to defend Mr. Oliver as an equal-opportunity satirist, to no avail.
The last two administrations have tried to break the Iran-Russia alliance to no avail.
Woodstock organizers scrambled to score a mass gathering permit several weeks ago, to no avail.
To no avail: even the eminent cannot stem the tide of change in living languages.
The one where you end up vigorously rubbing your sore, dry eyes to no avail?
I spent the remainder of my early 20s playing the pharmaceutical lottery, to no avail.
Sia Bo's inexperience showed, as he tried to choke out his opponent to no avail.
After James hit the ground, a nurse on set tried assisting ... apparently to no avail.
She doesn't know what day it is and repeatedly asks for Caputo, to no avail.
With only a vague auto-reply message, he called its emergency line to no avail.
To no avail: In November 21990, Proposition 21990 passed with 1873 percent of the vote.
He would beg Mr. Howard to talk at meetings with studio chiefs to no avail.
They took his hand and tried so hard to communicate with him, to no avail.
Nursing home officials said they had appealed to the authorities for help, to no avail.
Mr. Saito and his lawyers have sought his release at least twice, to no avail.
She reported her missing the next day, after frantically searching for her to no avail.
For hours, they lay pinned to the floor, shouting for their comrades to no avail.
Hearing a rustle, he fires his long-barrelled gun at a tree, to no avail.
EMPIRE DINER Every few years, someone tries to revive this beloved throwback, to no avail.
Doctors tried to treat the disorder with a number of methods, all to no avail.
Like many who have bariatric surgery, she has tried diets and exercise to no avail.
When cabs pulled up, I tried to talk to the migrants, largely to no avail.
Like Riot, ISIS tried leveraging TamTam in the spring of 2018 but to no avail.
Burger King mostly stuck to their burgers, but took a shot anyway, to no avail.
For more than a year, Martin tried the protocol on brain tissue, to no avail.
Hunter begged West to appeal to the first-base umpire, to no avail, of course.
Two groups have been monitoring Oumuamua for alien radio signals, so far to no avail.
His mother, frantic, tried pumping his chest, to no avail, and feared he was dead.
Obama has repeatedly tried to defund the program in his annual budget, to no avail.
Martin says he's reached out to team Lindsay and Yossi several times to no avail.
A witness says CPR was performed and a defibrillator was used but to no avail.
Muskat from Malta, and she's tried repeatedly to represent her home country, to no avail.
Al-Azhar has been trying to set up a TV station for years, to no avail.
They pitched multiple projects to their professor over the course of the class, to no avail.
Villanova tried to launch a deep, desperation three to tie it up, but to no avail.
And for a very, very long time, I've been trying to find it, to no avail.
Teams of researchers and medical experts searched exhaustively to find the cause, but to no avail.
They've reached out to the US State Department and FBI, too, they say, to no avail.
Two caretakers riding on the elephant's back tried to calm it down, but to no avail.
Some donors have tried convincing Warren's staff to relax her rule forbidding fundraisers — to no avail.
"I also ran — i am not kidding — 400 strategic mediation analyses to no avail..." Payne wrote.
Lindsey Graham and senior White House staffers Kellyanne Conway and Raj Shah — apparently to no avail.
The Frys appealed to no avail, so they appealed again, this time to the Supreme Court.
The safety operator struck the shuttle window, waved his hands, and yelled "stop," to no avail.
Superman builds a super-computer and sets it to work on the question, to no avail.
City officials tried to lure Uber last year, to no avail, according to the Miami Herald.
Staff tried a number of deterrents, such as water sprays and fake birds, to no avail.
We clamored to make our voices heard, both protesting and lobbying negotiators, all to no avail.
Likewise, other users tried deleting and reinstalling Messenger but all to no avail, the bug persisted.
Defense attorneys had asked the judge not to allow those comments at trial to no avail.
The Fixers spend the next fifteen minutes attempting to replicate their earlier success, to no avail.
According to the lawsuit, the neighbor demanded that Radnor tear down the deck ... to no avail.
Hanson first tried to reach her father, but to no avail, her aunt Cathy Riordan said.
For months, Republican opponents of Donald J. Trump hit him on myriad issues, to no avail.
I've asked her to stop, and I remove food when I can, but to no avail.
I tried for more than 30 minutes to break out of the cycle, to no avail.
I looked around for a ledge on which I could place my coffee, to no avail.
F LeBron James campaigned for him to make the team last month but to no avail.
However, they can't admit that, so they will do more of the same — to no avail.
They've been fighting like hell to free her from his clutches -- so far, to no avail.
She hangs blankets around her bunk bed to keep flies and mosquitoes out, to no avail.
Helen Prager, a retired educator, told Tyler she had been trying for weeks to no avail.
My congresswoman and senator have been responsive and sent letters on our behalf, to no avail.
We had a routine, which involved play, bath, and reading a book, but to no avail.
I tried pointing the Pixel multiple times at buildings across the street, but to no avail.
When I finally gave up on that, I rinsed my eyes with water — to no avail.
In September, officials excavated the Dawsons' former house in search of her body, to no avail.
Jonathan says he replied "STOP" to get them to cancel the automated texts, to no avail.
"If you can talk, you can breathe," Noah replies, attempting to reassure her to no avail.
He even called Barra personally to press her not to close the plant, to no avail.
By 2011, the United Nations declared the authority's government functions ready for statehood — to no avail.
At times, Faye gently or forcefully challenges these retroactive assignments of meaning, but to no avail.
Later, she recalls, her mother tried a boot-camp-style drug rehabilitation program, to no avail.
All to no avail: As Dybala would say later, his anguish was too intense for solace.
Suneja hauled his control column all the way back, giving full up elevator to no avail.
RBNZ retained an easing bias and tried to talk down the currency, but to no avail.
Having made his fortune and avoiding service, he tried to resettle in Germany to no avail.
The US has tried pressuring the Russians into giving up the missile, but to no avail.
She tried over-the-counter pain and sinus medicines, as well as acupuncture, to no avail.
It was to no avail, according to email correspondence she shared with The New York Times.
His mother, Christy Carter, even tried her hand at making the knot but to no avail.
Promises to soften the blow by increasing welfare payments to poor families were to no avail.
Cahill says she voiced her complaints to human resources at least four times to no avail.
I tried to make extra mashed potatoes, but to no avail, we eat all of them.
The university has searched for living relatives of both Hanly and Lennon but to no avail.
Over the years, he's made a few attempts at solving the Collatz conjecture, to no avail.
Colombia protested the call to no avail as Reynaldo Rodriguez and outfielder Tito Polo were ejected.
He's had a couple police visits lately too -- with attempts to 5150 him, to no avail.
China has culled nearly a million pigs, set up roadblocks and built fences, to no avail.
He had advocated abolition of slavery in Washington in 1849 as a congressman, to no avail.
He also shot off a text message to the driver about the bag, to no avail.
Afful tested Melia in the 36th minute from the top of the box to no avail.
It's attempted to make a disappearing photo sharing app like Snapchat multiple times to no avail.
Folwell also has broached renegotiating fee agreements with hundreds of existing fund managers, but to no avail.
Residents, too, have tried to get Google to remove its bikes from the creek, to no avail.
Other politicians have talked of their states leaving the Union in the past with to no avail.
A fellow customer then walks over to the man and attempts the Heimlich maneuver, to no avail.
Despite that, Nurse Hoffel (Kirstie Alley) tries her best to stab Chanel multiple times to no avail.
And that's usually only after a patient has tried to quit heroin several times to no avail.
When it sought a publisher to give the game a commercial release it struggled to no avail.
" Enlisting the help of some "computer people," Abramovitz tried to trace the account, "but to no avail.
Paul's Republican colleagues had also publicly signaled they wanted him to back down, but to no avail.
His lifeless body was recovered and doctors performed CPR on him for 43 minutes to no avail.
In a video posted to Rob's Snapchat, he instructs his future child to "move!" to no avail.
Fully 93% of JNU's teachers' union voted in August to demand Mr Kumar's resignation—to no avail.
He has spent years trying to convince the government to fund a skate park, to no avail.
Additionally, the religion has predicted the literal end of the world several times, obviously to no avail.
From the AP: Kuwait "showed a sincere desire to cooperate, but all to no avail," he said.
I root around for a scrunchie in my bag and then in my desk to no avail.
The sanctions, negotiations, and war of words with North Korea have been ultimately to no avail. Enough.
After that text, surveillance video showed Zhang trying to flag down a bus, but to no avail.
We're told CPR was administered, to no avail ... she was pronounced dead on the scene by paramedics.
Prince Charles tried to get a baby Prince William to look at the camera to no avail.
A volunteer group called Avro Recovery Canada has searched the lake bed numerous times to no avail.
The family spent hundreds of dollars on ads in an attempt to locate Ginger, to no avail.
I banged on the door to rouse the holy spirit from its slumber, but to no avail.
Jackson, who was guarded by Irving, pleaded with the officials for a foul, but to no avail.
In recent years, the tribe has tried to reclaim its land in court, but to no avail.
Mr. Trump and his advisers tried repeatedly to change the subject to Islamic terrorism, to no avail.
He tried various conditions — warm, wet, cool, dry, light, dark — to no avail: The eggs remained inert.
I even resorted to coding my own hacks to try to improve these devices, to no avail.
After a mild freakout, the kid tries to put the chunk of hair back to no avail.
The Obama administration had tried to negotiate their release with the Egyptian government, but to no avail.
Dr. Levin has proposed, again and again, sending another labeled release experiment to Mars, to no avail.
Dozens of lawmakers have also called on their peers to end the research ban, to no avail.
His opponents have been counting on the political system to stop this runaway train, to no avail.
She tried online to no avail — she noted that King Arthur and other retailers were sold out.
As the trolls continued to report the bot to no avail, we thought the problem was resolved.
Mr. Kodua, 37, said he had called his roommate more than a dozen times, to no avail.
During all this, a hot, weird bartender (Harry Connick Jr.) tries to woo her to no avail.
Mr. Thompson said he repeatedly called 311, Nycha's borough office and the main headquarters to no avail.
The residents' families had held meetings, consulted the county ombudsman and hired a lawyer, to no avail.
Moussouris and her coworkers attempted to contact Lexar through any channel they could find, to no avail.
Other passengers began trying to plug the hole with jackets and other objects but to no avail.
With each North Korean nuclear or missile test, United States officials protest and threaten, to no avail.
He asked Schumer and McConnell to consider doing the same this time, to no avail so far.
He initially tried getting the case tossed by trashing his accuser's mental state but to no avail.
U.S. officials reportedly tried to talk Turkey out of launching the military operation but to no avail.
Argentina's central bank has tried to keep inflation in check through rate hikes, but to no avail.
Narayan said that he had warned Modi, "Things will go out of hand," but to no avail.
When that idea gained no traction, Tillerson proposed an American-sponsored meeting in Kuwait, to no avail.
First the couple approached state officials about banning junk food in New Delhi schools — to no avail.
Members opposed to impeachment denounced irregularities and called for the session to be postponed, to no avail.
I was not happy about her choice at first and tried to dissuade her, but to no avail.
With all their real apps on the second page, your friend will be tapping away to no avail.
To compensate, Benanti removed gluten, eggs, beans, cruciferous vegetables and sugar from her diet — all to no avail.
Nixon tried his best to spin what the secret documents told him to his advantage, to no avail.
WNBC-TV reports a department Marine Bureau officer searched the home she was staying at, to no avail.
A lot of that safety data, ironically, came from government efforts to demonize the drug, to no avail.
Democrats and immigration advocates had pleaded for the Trump administration to extend the deadline, but to no avail.
You may have tried everything from updating your profile to changing your location radius settings — to no avail.
Ever the politician, Obama said he tried to "negotiate" less gray hair and smaller ears, to no avail.
"I don't dislike you, it's just everything that you stand for," Lenny tries to explain, to no avail.
And, let's not forget how many times the Trump campaign's obituary has been written before — to no avail.
She's been trying to get the other account taken down since August of last year, to no avail.
Bipartisan coalitions of which I was a part practically begged regulators to halt the merger, to no avail.
I even tried to educate her about depression's stranglehold on a person's emotions and actions, to no avail.
Morgan bandages her up and tries to pep talk her into coming back to Alexandria, to no avail.
The parties haggled for weeks ... sending several dozen versions of the deal back and fourth, to no avail.
For years, federal employees tried, to no avail, to track him down and serve him with the lawsuit.
Some of the students tried to jump to safety as the floor gave way ... mostly to no avail.
It said the state had been negotiating with Microsoft officials in Israel for a year to no avail.
Mr Mallya has tried to settle his tab by offering the banks 40 billion rupees, to no avail.
He noticed a tiny spot on his eye and tried to flush it several times to no avail.
Terry McAuliffe, a Democrat, spent all four years in office attempting to expand the program, to no avail.
Democrats poured money into a race that became the most expensive House contest ever, but to no avail.
In 2628, the historic 28503th was expected to involve either Virginia or Arizona's State legislatures to no avail.
The lettuce and tomatoes did their best to provide a little textural punch-up, but to no avail.
We took evidence of the violent intentions of white supremacists directly to the city council, to no avail.
Similarly, Republican donors and "#NeverTrump" conservative intellectuals did their darnedest to derail his candidacy; but to no avail.
However, she grows to care for Aurora and even tries to reverse her own spell to no avail.
A company spokesperson said Uber had pushed him to comply with its own internal investigations, to no avail.
He spent some time before the game in a dark room to calm the pain, to no avail.
And of course, there are the scores of other fighters who have called him out to no avail.
The Texas legend has been voicing similar opinions for years to no avail—which doesn't mean he's wrong.
Doctors and health advocates have been urging Americans to choose broccoli over brownies for years, to no avail.
Vernon claims that he had requested the song be altered prior to its release, obviously to no avail.
Jackson has looked for jobs ranging from a waiter to an assistant to the elderly, to no avail.
She said she attended the presentation because she had tried looking for a job before, to no avail.
They look as though they can hear this woman, Abbas's eyes searching for the source, to no avail.
As many people have pointed out to no avail, Trump is all wrong about what trade deficits do.
First, the chain tried a new marinade and then they revamped the cooking process, but to no avail.
He has tried to have them evicted, so far to no avail: Their rental contract runs until 2022.
The report shows that pilots on a doomed Ethiopian Airlines jet followed Boeing's safety protocol, to no avail.
They witnessed their elders fight to escape cycles of oppression for more promising prospects, largely to no avail.
Others have told him it's disgusting to see the shells all over his desk, but to no avail.
Last Wednesday, 27 City Council members sent a letter of objection to the mayor's plan, to no avail.
Kennedy was able to escape the car and claims he repeatedly tried to free Kopechne to no avail.
He had tried, like the Hopi elders, to warn the world of our ways, but to no avail.
Several hundred Canadian fans ringing cowbells and blowing horns tried to lift their man but to no avail.
In September, she joked to a Senate colleague that she was "fucking moving to Iowa", to no avail.
Pizza Hut coworkers set out into the town to look for their missing colleague, but to no avail.
The presidents of Liberia and Mauritania met with him to urge him to step down, to no avail.
The Colts disputed that call to no avail and the Texans were able to run out the clock.
Bailey's mother panicked at hearing the news and kept trying to reach her daughter, but to no avail.
My father, a professor of chemical engineering, tried for years to help me with math, to no avail.
In his battle with Hercules over a nymph, he is transformed into a bull (to no avail, alas).
He tried pulling the gator's mouth open, to no avail, and the gator dragged Lane into deep water.
"I called, FB messaged, faxed, emailed and tweeted Apple exhaustively last week to no avail," she tweeted last night.
Before Harris stepped in, a fellow customer attempted to perform the Heimlich on the choking diner to no avail.
Turkish authorities have called for the Saudi assailants to be tried in Turkey but so far to no avail.
"I said, 'Give him a chance, because he really can play,'" Collins says she argued, but to no avail.
Over the past year, there have been a few attempts at stemming this growing tide, but to no avail.
Its announced demolition in 217 sparked numerous protests, but to no avail — it was torn down the following year.
They then tried another location to no avail before taking Hurst to a dimly-lit empty supermarket parking lot.
Bereft of superpowers, Too Much Coffee Man often attempts to salve his depressions with more coffee -- to no avail.
Aren, a 4-year veteran of the force, was rushed to a nearby veterinary facility but to no avail.
He said he asked a minister with the health care commission for it over and over to no avail.
The parents brought their son to court after spending three months trying to kick him out, to no avail.
But she had already been down that road, having exchanged messages and phone calls with Uconnect to no avail.
She even drew a giant letter "H" in the snow with ashes from the fire, but to no avail.
As she grew up, the lock of every door and cupboard in the monastery was tested, to no avail.
The four non-vanished men on the island continued their search for days but it was to no avail.
Local NBC affiliate WKYC enlisted a retired engineer to survey the area with a spectrum analyzer, to no avail.
Jeanne Shaheen was skeptical, noting the military has promised to remedy internal sexual abuse problems before to no avail.
The 6-year-old's superhero dad, however, struggled to secure the bike inside Elon Musk's handiwork -- to no avail.
After attempting to free her son on her own to no avail, Choe resorted to calling 911 for help.
Two of the students who reported their assaults to no avail dropped out of USU after filing their reports.
Her camp says they've been trying to figure this out without a judge stepping in, but to no avail.
A city official showed up in hopes of alleviating the situation and explaining the misunderstanding, but to no avail.
Furthermore, Nurmagomedov and Ferguson have significant history together, having been scheduled two times to no avail in the past.
It even knows how many times I've Googled "Panera Bread delivery" (to no avail)... All in all, intimate stuff!
Ken Pollack said that McMaster thought a lot about how to improve his relationship with Trump, to no avail.
However, the Senate and industry proponents have been trying, to no avail, to get the House to sign on.
The administration had tried to circumvent the appeals courts and involve the Supreme Court early on to no avail.
Labor groups pledged to "knock on tens of thousands of doors" with the minimum wage message to no avail.
Dousing the charcoals and flame with lighter fluid, hoping for a "big flaming inferno," will be to no avail.
There were allegations that Liston put a foreign agent on his gloves to blind Ali, but to no avail.
I will attempt a dozen times over the course of the holiday to see the grave, to no avail.
Velasco, 303, had seen 40 doctors about the disease and tried dozens of drugs and treatments, to no avail.
It was to no avail; Moscow denied that the Russian fighters on the ground were connected to Russia's military.
After meeting the malevolent headmistress (Patricia Clarkson) and her bullying classmates, Heather pleads to return home to no avail.
Wells Fargo tried, through standard court procedures including a motion to dismiss, to kill the lawsuit, to no avail.
The Los Angeles Times reports that multiple neighbors complained about the paint job to city officials to no avail.
The police released a sketch of the baby's face and the towel as recently as 2016, to no avail.
The ministry has for several years lobbied for Russia to build a modern microchip plant, but to no avail.
But so far, to no avail — markets continue to crumble and U.S. equity futures are down 22% this morning.
I tried to make up for my loneliness with games and friends from the internet, but to no avail.
Security tries to separate it to no avail, and at least 2 more men join in on the ruckus.
She enrolls in singing lessons to no avail, but her partner (Hugh Grant) keeps up a charade of improvement.
They'd repeatedly voiced their concern, on the steps of the capitol and at Governor Snyder's office, to no avail.
Ayman al-Zawahiri, who succeeded Osama bin Laden in 2011, repeatedly tried to rein in Baghdadi, to no avail.
They began by searching genetic data collected from more than 200,000 people around the world — but to no avail.
"The whole credit card industry has been praying to get into China to no avail, until now," Cramer said.
The gunships circled and started shooting at him — to no avail, which really upset the colonel in our helicopter.
Trump's administration has asked courts to allow that policy to go into effect, but so far to no avail.
I've implored local and state politicians for help (especially for the dysfunctional bus system) for years to no avail.
Lowey then called Leahy and asked him to reach out to his friend, which he did to no avail.
He tried to resolve the issue internally and even sought the help of the NSC, but to no avail.
After taking another "Omeprazole" to no avail the next day, it occurred to me to look at the container.
She used to be peppered with questions about her demonstratively chatty and occasionally tactless father, Richard, to no avail.
Santander's environmentalists and some citizen groups took the project as far as Spain's Supreme Court, but to no avail.
They also pulled Lundqvist for an extra skater with a little more than two minutes left to no avail.
As we reported, June's family is desperately trying to get her help and away from Geno, to no avail.
The House in particular tried to repeal or otherwise cripple the law — to no avail — literally dozens of times.
At gatherings in different cities, the activists repeatedly asked the Taliban for a cease-fire, always to no avail.
Murphy says his company was set to spend more than $5 mil on the PSA ... but to no avail.
As Strowman quickly climbed up the latter to grab Owens, the frightened fighter attempted to rush down to no avail.
Balatarin's staff blocked thousands of IP addresses a day and even brought in a Dutch cybersecurity consultant, to no avail.
In the third, Josh Harrison was on third doing his best to distract the rookie right-hander, to no avail.
Gionfriddo and his wife have repeatedly tried to get their son proper treatment, housing, and support, but to no avail.
Other witnesses tried performing CPR on the two victims, aged 25 and 33, before authorities arrived, but to no avail.
Xerox said it had repeatedly tried to convince Fujifilm to start talks on improved terms for buyout to no avail.
"…I was definitely hacked and later tried googling 'Spotify hack news' last night to no avail," one victim told us.
The leaders of America's biggest companies lobbied furiously for Mr Trump not to tear up the deal, to no avail.
But Nikki Haley, the US ambassador, said the US had given diplomacy "chance after chance after chance" to no avail.
Argentina tried to defend its currency by raising rates to no avail, leading to a massive spike in government debt.
I've tried to confuse Alexa with illogical statements in order to prompt it to self-destruct, but to no avail.
Executive producer dream hampton says she reached out to multiple stars when she was making the series, to no avail.
People were tagging their friends in the comments, and once again the post was widely shared — but to no avail.
According to Orlando police, SWAT teams and negotiators attempted to resolve the situation without further violence, but to no avail.
Her sisters, her mother, and her good friend, Jonathan Cheban, have all tried to talk her down to no avail.
In recent decades various groups across North America have appealed to the team to renounce the logo, to no avail.
Republicans have been hoping that Trump would change his ways for nearly the entirety of his campaign to no avail.
Her parents checked with friends and searched the neighborhood and the path she took home "to no avail," Lewis said.
After arguing to no avail, Shukla finally got angry enough to walk away and posted on Facebook about her encounter.
Van Riemsdyk set up Bozak for a clear chance to no avail during nearly three minutes into the third period.
DeLack said he alerted the base commanders, inspector general and others, to no avail, finally moving off base in 2016.
We spent more than two weeks trying to contact the developer, believed to be based in China, to no avail.
The Lightning continued the third-period pressure, outshooting the Predators 13-5 in the final 20 minutes to no avail.
Kemp, who was clearly beaten, barreled through catcher Robinson Chirinos trying to jar the ball loose, but to no avail.
Some Twitter users even tried to find Zoe online — to no avail — and instead ended up harassing other unsuspecting Zoes.
One woman in the report claims she went to Pittman "countless times" to complain about Ussery's behavior to no avail.
Frustrated, she vents to Rainer about her "high school" problems and continuously texts both Cassie and Jake to no avail.
A growing number of celebs -- along with AR's legal team -- are demanding his release ... but so far to no avail.
Muntari claimed that he tried to defuse the racial abuse from fans in the first half, but to no avail.
Year after year, Rose has asked for reinstatement—thereby making him eligible for the Hall of Fame— to no avail.
Cobra has a clean slate, he says, adding that he's pressured government agencies to ban the practice to no avail.
"I tried for three years to get it on, to no avail, and now it's all coming out," she said.
According to CBS 17, officials in both Orange and Chatham County have been after the bird, but to no avail.
The Texan hit out at Trump as "utterly amoral" and a "pathological liar," but it was all to no avail.
The members of the "Steady State" (the term "Deep State" clearly stings) have done everything they can, to no avail.
There was a flurry of 11th-hour appeals to spare them, but to no avail for four of the prisoners.
Her final throw of the political dice involved offering to resign if that agreement was passed but to no avail.
Ergen has sought deals with most major telecom companies in the United States, but to no avail, the report said.
Not to mention that a Heathers TV show has already been attempted multiple times to no avail, as THR notes.
When YouTube became popular, I even embarked on a mission to nail the ever-tricky smoky eye (to no avail).
I do remember trying to fit in a dog star like Rin Tin Tin or Lassie, but to no avail.
I opened up the app on Tuesday morning, outside a CES convention center, and requested a car — to no avail.
Two other players, Dominic Smith and Kevin McGowan, witnessed the attack and tried to chase down Cruz to no avail.
In recent decades various groups across North America have appealed to the team to renounce the logo, to no avail.
Locals and environmental campaigners had already spent many years pressuring successive Guatemalan governments to clean it up to no avail.
For years, I've been trying to set eyes on the owls in the trees around my house, to no avail.
Horton also appealed to Swain to buy him, to ease his travels back and forth from campus, to no avail.
Bennett said he's attempted for weeks to find an organized effort to combat Sanders' rise, so far, to no avail.
I texted her to no avail — it appears I missed the short window of time where she was taking questions.
Outfitted in matching T-shirts, they have demanded a minimum wage of at least $15 an hour — to no avail.
Meanwhile, Ethan Allen's management has struggled to turn its own business around, cutting costs here and there to no avail.
One of the other three people on board, a student aviator, had taken over the controls, but to no avail.
We've been looking for it casually throughout our trip and we continue our search for some here, to no avail.
But this laid cognitive terrain from which the Bush Administration trotted it out again in 28503, still to no avail.
The university administration issued a denunciation of the violence and ordered "the immediate surrender" of the auditorium, to no avail.
He constantly casts about looking for something more captivating and consequential, where his renown may be secured — to no avail.
She tries to push back against commissioner Chris Tang Ping-Keung's condoning the arrest of all protestors, to no avail.
After Emir and I landed our permit, we spent the rest of the morning looking for more, to no avail.
She fought with her insurance company for at least six months and appealed the decision several times to no avail.
She had searched the yard and the street, and checked with the neighbors on either side, all to no avail.
The local Democratic Party pleaded with Mr. Biden to repair what it saw as a damaging error, to no avail.
They have also undertaken legal measures calling for a meeting with Abel Prieto, the Minister of Culture, to no avail.
It is generally when every worldly possibility has been explored, to no avail, that one seeks intercession from otherworldly spirits.
Then, for three weeks to no avail, Shaleta pressed Saka for details on what he was doing with the money.
After checking in with friends and family to no avail, Miami actually filed a missing persons report with local police.
"We didn't do nearly enough," said Mr. Ross, who also explored ways to "raise the price" on Qatar, to no avail.
His ex-wife even weighed in to inform the court of his humanitarian efforts and kind demeanor -- all to no avail.
A woman was also spotted, seemingly banging on the car door and trying to get inside the vehicle, to no avail.
Bailey said they've yet to identify her remains, noting Grate has been trying to remember the woman's name to no avail.
The documentary features multiple Theranos employees explaining how they tried to tell leadership the Edison wasn't working, but to no avail.
Lawler, himself a former UFC welterweight champion, immediately protested but to no avail, allowing Askren to maintain his unbeaten MMA record.
She tried multiple times on her own to tell the creditors these debts were the result of fraud, to no avail.
It wasn't only about his News Feed list: He also tried to use the Facebook search function, also to no avail.
I had just graduated college and applied to every New York writing and TV gig I could find to no avail.
Andersson tweeted a photo of her healed ass to let regulators know she was just fine, actually, but to no avail.
Outraged, she posted on social media, wrote letters to Mr Putin and Dmitry Medvedev, the prime minister, but to no avail.
On the Israel-Palestinian question, one administration after another has exerted half-hearted efforts to resolve the conflict, to no avail.
Vaughn told local media that he switched on a porch light to try to scare the bear away, to no avail.
ARS Technica reports that Soylent is spending tens of thousands of dollars on testing and has investigated ingredients to no avail.
Freeland, in an interview with CBC radio, said she sought "repeatedly" to speak with her Chinese counterpart, but to no avail.
That's when Tanisha tries her hand at some street justice ... tackling the woman to get the purse back, to no avail.
The state's legislature, judiciary and multiple governors have all agreed that they need to trim its prison population—to no avail.
Yet often to no avail—the male Smith's longspurs have to budget their sperm and reject two thirds of copulation invitations.
Every time I tried to access Siri, Google Now, or Samsung's virtual assistant, I wound up shouting commands to no avail.
The findings are part of a racial bias problem that researchers have sought to resolve for decades, but to no avail.
The Grizzlies are without defensive stalwart Tony Allen (calf) and have thrown a variety of defenders at Leonard to no avail.
"In the month since MusiCares I've tried to speak to both you and Stevie, to no avail," he writes in part.
Having not seen Mr Bouteflika for over a year, they have demanded a meeting with him—so far to no avail.
" Trump tweeted, to no avail—but as CNN's Chris Cillizza put it on Wednesday, Paul has suddenly become "Trump's best buddy.
But because the Lyons already shook-up Angelo to no avail, they've discarded the idea that the DuBois have taken her.
In fact, four congressmen wrote Roberts last month asking him to provide live audio for the redistricting case to no avail.
Apart from a few relatives who would attempt, to no avail, to encourage me to try the lamb, it was lovely.
Once the airstrike ended, Esmat tried to suture Amin's severed femoral artery on a makeshift operating table, but to no avail.
We knew that one prospective tenant, in particular, had been looking for a new home for a while to no avail.
Analysts have been calling on the company to give more transparency into the business for some time now to no avail.
"This is the first apartment I moved into after college," she explained as she fired pieces of gum, to no avail.
He told the senators that he and other ORR officials had warned of the consequences of the policy, to no avail.
They then turned first to the United Nations, then to Congress, seeking a way to back down—but to no avail.
And as numerous pieces have pointed out (see Grist, MIT Technology Review), solar roofs have been tried before, to no avail.
His wife and two grown-up daughters have tried to convince him to get a more conventional job to no avail.
Alphabet shopped the Schaft business fairly widely — since 2016 and after the SoftBank deal collapsed — but to no avail, we understand.
Park rangers tried to reunite the herd and the calf, but it was to no avail, according to the news outlet.
A few days before he was fired, he said he would have them out by the next afternoon, to no avail.
Inslee, a Democrat, encouraged Trump to be a "quarterback" and use his authority, but to no avail, at least for now.
At one point, rescuers spotted Charlie on some dry land and tried to coax him into the boat, to no avail.
Video of the episode showed repeated efforts by those inside and outside the car to open the door, to no avail.
In their own ways, Steve Bannon and Tucker Carlson have been pitching just such a fusion for years, to no avail.
Senegal win a free kick, push everyone up, and proceed to hit three long balls into the box, to no avail.
Schumer told reporters that he tried to open talks with the GOP leader two weeks ago to no avail (The Hill).
Already, Trump told Azar and Verma to knock it off and get along — to no avail, said two senior administration officials.
But Michael, like Feldman, is deaf and his attempts to express his situation through sign language go increasingly to no avail.
It's a performance that has to be madding for Green Bay's front-seven, which has pressured him repeatedly to no avail.
During the one-on-one meal in the Green Room, the president asked for a pledge of loyalty, to no avail.
For a year, the organization had been asking the Assad regime for permission to operate in the country, to no avail.
Dozens of reporters say they chased the story to no avail, sometimes in the face of intense pressure from Weinstein's camp.
The hospital did all they could to save him, even performing a blood transfusion from the alpaca's father, but to no avail.
After countless visits to different derms and multiple laser treatments with Fraxel, Yag, and VBeam to no avail, I was getting desperate.
Tian and his family searched for the dog for two days to no avail and even put up a lost pet notice.
For the first six months of his entrepreneurial journey, Chen knocked on the doors of 40 hospitals across China — to no avail.
Later, the Dutch tried to convince Japan's feudal leadership to open the country to trade with the West, but to no avail.
During her tenure with Magic Leap, Campbell complained repeatedly and to no avail to the game's developer that the game was misogynistic.
Left-wing economist Paul Krugman has been pounding the table for an increase in fiscal stimulus for years now, to no avail.
City officials comb through their homes and census registries, and try to contact family members through the mail, often to no avail.
In a video, the little royal shakes his head as Trudeau tries high fives, low fives and a handshake to no avail.
They tried coaxing Hattie down the wall, to no avail, and so one worker volunteered to go up on a man lift.
Because of the family connection, authorities hoped to find the four missing Jäger family works in the trove, but to no avail.
In fact, nothing I've pointed out is a new idea, because we seemingly have this conversation once a week to no avail.
Later Saturday morning, police and hotel workers began searching for Jenkins; they also surveyed some of the security footage to no avail.
His lawyers also contended, to no avail, that he was entitled to a new trial based on evidence of alleged judicial misconduct.
Kemper, Helms and Fischer joined forces to get the Welcome to Marwen star to sign on to a reboot — to no avail.
C-SPAN has sought to put its own cameras in Congress since 1984, to no avail; yesterday, the network had its revenge.
Mr. Lacey tried to get executives at the agency to correct the fraud and misconduct, to no avail, according to the lawsuit.
Under George H. W. Bush, U.S. officials had no fewer than 28 high-level meetings with their Iranian counterparts, to no avail.
Ninety-four percent of the survey participants who were obese had tried to lose weight with diet or exercise, to no avail.
They tried couples therapy to no avail; in 2009, they divorced, negotiating the terms of their split in a draft Google document.
In California, the state Supreme Court and prosecutors tried to appeal to the Trump administration to stop the arrests — to no avail.
The six wordless deaths feature real ambulances (earplugs were distributed) and rescue workers who struggle, to no avail, to save the victims.
We were friends and I loved his non-sci-fi work, so I persevered with his sci-fi but to no avail.
Creative-writing teachers who had read his work, including a violent play called "Richard McBeef," alerted the school authorities to no avail.
MoviePass tried data collection practices to bring in revenue, as well as rolling out controversial limits like surge pricing, to no avail.
The nursing home repeatedly sought to get its power restored in the immediate aftermath of the storm, to no avail, he said.
The nursing home repeatedly sought to get its power restored in the immediate aftermath of the storm, to no avail, he said.
Earlier this year, as the Indonesian general election neared, Papuans demanded a vote to be released from Indonesian rule -- to no avail.
In an effort to keep her from leaving, Fox reportedly offered her an annual salary of $2649 million, but to no avail.
They had reported the abuse to local police, to no avail, and finally journeyed north to seek refuge in the United States.
But the records obtained by BuzzFeed News show how de Blasio's administration spent years trying to get the emails to no avail.
The past two months I've been working with a client who spent all of 2019 looking for a job to no avail.
Freeland, speaking in an interview with CBC radio, said she sought "repeatedly" to speak with her Chinese counterpart, but to no avail.
FOR DECADES, some of the world's sharpest minds have advanced a plethora of ideas to tackle climate change, but to no avail.
A jilted Adobe, recognizing the threat this posed to its business, took out magazine ads begging Apple to reconsider, to no avail.
French and German leaders Macron and Merkel have tried to broker peace talks between Russia and Ukraine to no avail so far.
Since 2016, members of the Nordstrom family have been trying to take the company private to no avail due to financing issues.
Finally, Barack Obama stuck with the diplomatic route, first employing a conciliatory approach and later implementing sanctions, but similarly to no avail.
To no avail—a mere four hours after the inauguration on November 27, the Gävle Goat was set on fire by arsonists.
He phoned a community college president on Cape Cod to convince him to restart the school's basketball program, but to no avail.
Pressed on whether he would reject campaign donations from the N.R.A., he kept repeating, "They buy into my agenda," to no avail.
His efforts are to no avail, the lighter goes off and the video becomes filled with flames and the screams of onlookers.
One night all of the lights in his grandmother's house died, and after tripping the circuit breakers to no avail, Bilé had enough.
His case was basically, "We should rally around someone else," which is what establishment Republicans have been saying to no avail for weeks.
I roll over to my flu-infested girlfriend, A., who rubs my head in an attempt to ease the pain to no avail.
Russia and China have continuously promoted several legislative updates –most notably the PPWT at the United Nations Conference on Disarmament  — to no avail.
The officers found the toddlers unresponsive and in cardiac arrest inside the minivan and performed CPR on them to no avail, Hart said.
To no avail: after an adjournment to allow a missing defence witness to appear via video link, the judge found Mr Rodríguez guilty.
In the 20 years since, the CDC has repeatedly asked Congress to approve more funding to research gun violence prevention, to no avail.
Instead, Democratic leaders cut off Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Neilsen's presentation and tried to no avail to press Trump to accept their offer.
Roper and her organization have been prodding the Securities and Exchange Commission to improve advisor compensation disclosures for decades — largely to no avail.
During that time, many YouTube users repeatedly flagged the video for deletion through the site's content moderation system, to no avail; uproar ensued.
Prasad, who goes by one name, told CNN his family called everyone to get his spot in a government hospital, to no avail.
She said she is no longer in contact with Graham, either: He reportedly sent her a Christmas card in 2001, to no avail.
I could tell things were falling apart, and I tried to fix them to no avail, and just felt thwarted at every turn.
Mister Softee's vice president, Jim Conway, said the company had urged its drivers to retake the heart of the city, to no avail.
To online social media sites like Facebook, YouTube and Twitter – we have contacted you many times reporting this abuse, but to no avail.
Stuffed to the gills with dubplates and exclusives, it'll leave you furiously trying to find every gem he smashes through—to no avail.
Still, every few months, I'm paralyzed with regret, scheming for ways to fit a figure drawing class into my schedule, to no avail.
Survivors like Mr. Sukanta, now 76, have long demanded that the government give a full accounting of that dark period, to no avail.
The aquarium's manager, Rob Yarrall, told Radio New Zealand that employees had searched the aquarium's pipes after discovering Inky's trail, to no avail.
Lockheed Martin, which operates the failed servers in question, spent two weeks trying to un-fuck the Air Force's servers to no avail.
Mark Zuckerberg spent years schmoozing Chinese officials -- handing out copies of President Xi Jinping's book, running in the Beijing smog -- to no avail.
Corker has talked with the President about his amendment and Trump tried to dissuade the senator from pushing for it, to no avail.
He also said that he and other residents had repeatedly informed the building owner, Chor Ng, of the unsafe conditions to no avail.
The European Central Bank has continuously slashed rates and provided stimulus, but to no avail — and its effectiveness is lessened by the day.
Mattis pushed back heavily on the blockade to no avail, while the Saudis have persisted with it, confident that Trump has their back.
I have tried to persuade people I know to switch to other messaging services that have end-to-end encryption — to no avail.
He closed Rwanda's border with Uganda in February last year; Angola-led diplomatic efforts to resolve the standoff have been to no avail.
And Adams said that Glaad has been pushing IMDb to remove transgender people's birth names from its site for years to no avail.
We've met a few times and texted occasionally (like many Washington reporters, I've tried to interview him about his marriage, to no avail).
But Mr. Mueller's prosecutors considered his memory lapses unsatisfying and pressed Mr. Trump's lawyer again for an in-person interview, to no avail.
In the interim, while all she could do was wait, she explored the possibility of moving production to the US, to no avail.
The people said the NFLPA has attempted to explain to players how NFL contracts are negotiated compared with other leagues to no avail.
A friend of the slain woman said on Weibo that calls were made to Didi's customer service hotline seven times, to no avail.
For the first 15 minutes of the battle, U.S. military officials called their Russian counterparts and urged them to stop — to no avail.
Finally, this month, Tillerson spent a few days in the region trying to broker a deal between Doha and Riyadh, to no avail.
Giuliani's team had already launched an "off-the-radar public relations campaign," trying to "influence lawmakers through the media," but to no avail.
Anyway ... according to docs, obtained by TMZ, Cindy claims she's made repeated attempts to serve the rapper with papers, but to no avail.
Both Aho and Hurricanes coach Rod Brind'Amour complained to the officials that Vancouver never had control of the puck, but to no avail.
The producers of "Orange Is the New Black" petitioned the academy to allow it to compete as a comedy again, to no avail.
Los Angeles outshot the Blues 15-6 in the third period as it tried to get back into the game to no avail.
I logged onto the American Airlines website to no avail; the site wouldn't book a flight with less than an hour before departure.
Holmes said he and his colleagues at the embassy tried to figure out why the hold had been placed, but to no avail.
Senators repeatedly tried to get Muilenburg to outline what, if any, changes to the delegation system Boeing could support, largely to no avail.
They also tried reaching Toffee with rope, duffle bags and a crate, all to no avail, WHNT News 19 reported on its website.
She said she had urged her husband not to go forward with the first stage of the rise, to 8 percent, to no avail.
We revisit a scene from episode 1 in which young Nellie and Shirley try a skeleton key on the door but to no avail.
Having spent time in West Africa covering the Ebola outbreak, I saw how people hoped, wished and prayed for a vaccine -- to no avail.
As she realized she was trapped in her room, Lleshi said she immediately tried to summon help outside of her room, to no avail.
"Caretakers could have distracted Harambe and get him to move away from the child (which I understood was tried to no avail)," he writes.
While this information is certainly not too little, it may be too late for influencers who craved this data for years to no avail.
The Smashing Pumpkins have now responded to Wretzky's claims, saying they've previously tried to bring her back into the fold, but to no avail.
They sat him in a plastic chair, urged him to drink some water, wet his face to calm him down, all to no avail.
I wake up, pop three ibuprofen, and try to use the foam roller to roll it out and calm it down to no avail.
Ankara believes Gulen is the architect of the failed coup in 2016, and has repeatedly sought his extradition from the U.S. to no avail.
But a dearth of tracking data has made finding the crash site difficult, with more than 60,000 square kilometers already searched to no avail.
Officers with the National Highways and Motorway Police urged villagers to stay away from the vehicle, but to no avail, police sources told APP.
The British government told aid agencies that it had done "everything we can through diplomatic channels to discourage an assault" but to no avail.
While the lanes were closed, Mr. Sokolich had complained to no avail that school buses, ambulances and commuters were stuck in traffic for hours.
And Smith was left battling with the bank for days, complaining online and also going into a branch in person, but to no avail.
Many of Mr. Trump's Republican primary opponents, including Jeb Bush, used Mr. Trump's mockery of the reporter in negative advertisements, seemingly to no avail.
This week, they face an Atlanta team that has been trying to figure out its offense for over a year now to no avail.
After asking everyone I knew to no avail, some intensive googling led me to Sabra Ricci, author of Lobster For Leos, Cookies For Capricorns.
Cena, the cagey veteran on top of the wrestling world for almost over a decade, had expended all of his energy to no avail.
Ever since he finished high school last year, he, along with many unemployed Zimbabwean youths, has been looking for work but to no avail.
The U.S. and United Nations offered support for a one-year dialogue with Baghdad to address contentions between the capitals, but to no avail.
The Turks have demanded, to no avail, that the United States extradite a Pennsylvania-based Islamic preacher blamed for orchestrating the coup, Fethullah Gulen.
To no avail—England's vastly greater size ensured that a narrow majority for Leave in the south dictated Britain's exit from the European Union.
Evelyn Roll, another Merkel biographer, recalled writing emails to the chancellor's husband every three months for years to request an interview, to no avail.
I tried swiping up to leave the app, then holding two physical side buttons down to shut down the phone, but to no avail.
Ankara has demanded that the US government, its longtime ally, extradite Gülen in the aftermath of the coup, at this point to no avail.
Umpteen forms, filled out and submitted, failed to change the verdict; the oncologist fumed at insurance representatives on the phone, but to no avail.
The rapists will continue while most of us stand powerless outside courthouses, police stations and presidential palaces, furiously pointing at them, to no avail.
Passengers tell us the flight attendants were super concerned and huddled around the bathroom door, trying to coax the guy out, to no avail.
Lawmakers have spent weeks negotiations on a spending bill, to no avail, with immigration and health-care funding at the center of the talks.
She did everything that science told her to do, knowing that early exposure was a key to preventing these problems, and to no avail.
I tried for three years to get it on to no avail and now it's all coming out and it's like these new revelations.
I asked for her address and I tried using my reporter skills on my iPhone to get her home number, but to no avail.
The woman's husband, Brad, valiantly asked on the restaurant's Facebook page for a reason why his wife was let go, but to no avail.
Island leaders pleaded with Congress for relief in last month's omnibus spending bill, specifically for power to declare bankruptcy, but to no avail. Sen.
On two occasions, in a spirit of collegiality and damage control, Daley tried to explain to Vacanti where he had erred, to no avail.
Investigators have spoken with German gold specialists, hoping that they had come into contact with the coin, Mr. Steltner said, but to no avail.
The man lifted the dog above his head in an attempt to protect it, but to no avail: she climbed her way up his body.
She returned to hospital three times for treatments including biotherapy - where medicinal maggots clean the wounds by eating the dead tissue but to no avail.
I called out for help a few times, to no avail, before eventually just pretending to pass out, which successfully drew a pack of nurses.
Mozilla, which maintains the Firefox browser that could also be vulnerable to the attack, previously urged the FBI to provide details, but to no avail.
Immigrants' rights advocates have been calling on Amazon and Palantir to end their contracts with federal immigration agencies for over a year to no avail.
We literally all go through the struggle of getting that last bit of toothpaste out of those almost-done tubes, but usually to no avail.
These firms have moaned for months about the law's intrusive and vague provisions and asked for a delay in its implementation, but to no avail.
But he said he reached out to groups such as the National Rifle Association, to no avail, and helped craft the legislation behind the scenes.
Sitkoff said attempts were made to bring in himself and a family member to try to persuade Corbett to come out, but to no avail.
And since 2001, some people, including the former Staten Island Borough President James Molinaro, have pushed to allow cars back on board, to no avail.
Michael Sechler shared a photo of a stranded sea cow on Facebook, writing that he called every service he could think of to no avail.
When Russia bid to host this year's tournament in 220, Mr Hiddink implored his then-bosses to create a nationwide scouting programme, to no avail.
The secrecy can be so frustrating that sellers have traveled to Seattle or Amazon's London office to try to find a human, to no avail.
It was Thanksgiving, and the two worst trip planners in the world (me and my boyfriend), were frantically Googling "thanksgiving weekend getaways" to no avail.
If you've been dying to try it out for yourself and have been searching for promo codes to no avail, then this is your chance.
They allowed plus ones to sign up last week, but all the spots were taken in 45 minutes, so I got waitlisted to no avail!
But their moderation will be to no avail if politicians, starting with Jokowi, are not willing to stand up for Indonesia's long tradition of tolerance.
According to a report in Globo newspaper, Marcela Temer brought in a priest to attempt to drive out any evil spirits, but to no avail.
Last month, a Ritchie source told PEOPLE Madonna visited Rocco in London, "hoping to persuade Rocco to come back to New York" – to no avail.
One top E.P.A. official said in an interview that he had objected to the efforts when they were first discussed last year, to no avail.
Bloody paw marks found at the scene were an indicator that the cat attempted to take matters into her own claws, but to no avail.
His attempts to halt the attack by stabbing the predator with sticks and hitting it on the head with a rock were to no avail.
" Elije claims he reached out to Dwight's family members and also police in the hopes of getting the threats to stop ... "all to no avail.
However, I found myself losing interest in the novel, slogging through the text in the hopes of finding some deeper meaning, but to no avail.
The United States opposed this under President Obama and that opposition has continued, but to no avail: The treaty is now entering into international law.
The U.S. has sought to ratchet up the pressure on Russia to sever its diplomatic, economic and military ties with Venezuela, but to no avail.
She blasted producers over creative differences ... saying she's continuously asked for credit on "all the ideas, award winning routines and costumes" but to no avail.
He calms her down, but it's to no avail—her sister has already diverted exhaust fumes into her childhood home, killing herself and their parents.
The cops tried to pull the drivers over to no avail; a short chase ensued down a dirty roadway, but the family was eventually caught.
Republicans try to dissuade Trump to no avail yet: A handful of senators met with Trump at the White House after the attack, including Sen.
Ellie Kemper, Ed Helms and Jenna Fischer joined forces to get the Welcome to Marwen star to sign on to a reboot — to no avail.
But these tweaks would hardly dent British opinion on Brexit: after all, David Cameron negotiated similar concessions before calling last year's referendum, to no avail.
The Republican establishment has tried several strategies to counter the Trump movement and bring the party's base into the ideological fold, really to no avail.
Those on the Rules Committee said important protections were being rushed to the chopping block and pleaded for hearings on the regulations, to no avail.
Ruan had been asking her out to dinner for several months, to no avail; now she would be in his clinic several times a week.
Morrell continued on her quest to find Pierce, but to no avail – her adoption files were sealed, making it extremely difficult to get any leads.
I even tried to find someone traveling to a war-torn or AIDS-ravaged country who would carry them to doctors there, to no avail.
Reviglio has shelled out $750 for dog training and $150 for a behaviorist, who tried prescribing pills to curb Dodo's aggressive behavior, to no avail.
Yet so does the Bank for International Settlements, which warned of the impending financial crisis at the start of the last decade to no avail.
Christine -- who famously feuded with Tila Tequila's crew and built a brand that included a clothing line -- had tried getting help but to no avail.
I showed him several photos of Drake, asked him if "Passionfruit" was eligible to be a national anthem of the area, all to no avail.
She even had the gold fillings removed from her teeth on the theory that they may be causing an allergic response, but to no avail.
Teke said he wrote to Erdogan, the prime minister, and to government offices asking for more information about what will happen, but to no avail.
Charter tried to have the case dismissed, to no avail, and ultimately lost its argument in an appeals court, paving the way for the settlement.
When temperatures drop, the family brings out small electric space heaters, which they purchased, and duct tapes the edges of their windows to no avail.
He contacted police stations in Xinjiang and his parents' old workplaces, and he tried an official in the state security agency, all to no avail.
After years of signing petitions, writing to their congressmen and turning out for large-scale demonstrations, to no avail, draft resisters now upped the ante.
But Commissioner Rob Manfred said he had twice offered to meet with Clark this year, about both off- and on-field concerns, to no avail.
Here's what we do know -- Frank's rage has been so real he's been demanding Travis remove his part in the track, but to no avail.
All of these laws were passed with broad bipartisan support, and Walz has urged the Democratic Party to highlight these bills, too — to no avail.
Israel did everything in its power to stop his execution, asking foreign diplomats to intervene and offering the Syrians a huge ransom to no avail.
The Special Edition of "Close Encounters of the Third Kind" tacked on a scene of Richard Dreyfuss goggling inside the mother ship, to no avail.
American officials sounded out Mr. Kohl about letting the president off the hook, to no avail, according to former Secretary of State George P. Shultz.
Howard had been asking Beth to walk down the aisle again for years to no avail, with his wife calling the vow renewal bad luck.
But health experts said they were more worried because the Italian health ministry appeared to have moved aggressively to prevent an outbreak, to no avail.
Tom Cotton of Arkansas openly dismissed the House managers, who tried to no avail to convince enough Republicans to join Democrats in allowing new witnesses.
Hundreds of law enforcement officers from the state police, United States Marshals Service and local agencies spent Monday searching for Mr. Adams — to no avail.
The US has aimed to pressure Maduro to leave power, primarily through a campaign of targeted sanctions, for more than a year to no avail.
I tried every major magazine to no avail and finally after five months of unrelenting concern convinced Vanity Fair to send Alex Shoumatoff to Africa.
Mangiero countered that the lawyers had gone unpaid for a decade, and he'd spent $200,000 of his own money storing the art, to no avail.
The film was met with mixed reviews and so-so box office, but Amazon still spent heavily on his supporting-actor campaign, to no avail.
Cummings said he and his staff have since written and spoken to White House officials multiple times about obtaining documents and witnesses, but to no avail.
Inside the studio many Yemenis were also present for the final, wearing traditional clothes in support of Mohammed and chanting and dancing, but to no avail.
The person allegedly made off with all of his Bitcoin and the boy attempted to get the FBI to track the conman down, to no avail.
"Uber hopes to offer peace of mind to all riders," the source said, adding that the company had contacted many local insurers but to no avail.
Naturally, he found the sororities without difficulty and waited outside for female attention to no avail, making it the Drizziest Drake visit that could ever be.
In 1989, officials tried to save the Waha'ula Visitor Center at Hawaii Volcanoes National Park by hosing the lava down with water, but to no avail.
" University administrators say they've tried to engage several times with student leaders "to no avail," and is "committed to the principle of working toward free education.
Wright's instinct was to help the feline, who was eventually released by the driver (she and two friends attempted to find it but to no avail).
He said he was told the role would be recast back in October but had hoped the sides could work things out, but to no avail.
The uncle, who is now caring for him, said he and other relatives had previously contacted smugglers, seeking to buy Imad back, but to no avail.
The accuser said Spacey's alleged touching went on for about three minutes and that he tried to move away, to no avail, according to the reports.
According to a bulletin by the Associated Press, another letter written by Friedrich revealed how he begged local authorities not to deport him, to no avail.
Senator Carl Levin, for example, has for a number of years worked to pass the Incorporation Transparency and Law Enforcement Assistance Act, but to no avail.
I'm not the only one who tried to beg and bribe LA-based friends to brave the hours-long lines for me, but to no avail.
In the past she's claimed a New Yorker article backs her "actors" theory, but we, and others, have dug for such an article -- to no avail.
I recently began going to fewer comedy shows to avoid further political burnout — I was looking for an escape from the real world to no avail.
In Minnesota, a state that has had three partial shutdowns since 2001, I have advocated this as a solution for 15 years, but to no avail.
In 1993, I openly advocated that the A.P.A. actively monitor the regulations, policies and treatment doctrine affecting psychiatrists in the uniformed services, but to no avail.
After a brief discussion, Everitt signaled for Forsythe to return to third base, which drew Rays Manager Kevin Cash onto the field, but to no avail.
He scoffed at the NRA for skipping the televised forum and said the White House had invited the group to meetings many times, to no avail.
Kristaps Porzingis, who had a record-breaking night himself, came in and tried to help Amundson—that's 14 vertical feet of defense—but to no avail.
The town of Shishmaref, Alaska, has been asking the federal government for assistance in relocating for years, to no avail, as it erodes into the sea.
They've tried for years to find that piece, cycling through players like Rudy Gay, O.J. Mayo, Jeff Green, and even Lance Stephenson, all to no avail.
Last July, she hired Donn Zaretsky, who runs the Art Law Blog; he called the real estate group multiple times on her behalf, to no avail.
Allis penned the Facebook post in July as a desperate plea for a buyer to swoop in and buy the unit from him, to no avail.
When he didn't come back, the wife alerted authorities, who dispatched helicopters, planes, swimmers, and boats to look for him — to no avail for multiple days.
The story has often been told of a young Vietnamese patriot, Nguyen Tat Tanh, who came to Paris to plead for his country, to no avail.
Mike Mullen, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, called on Pakistan's army chief no fewer than 27 occasions — such efforts proved to no avail.
She even reported her husband's abuse to the commander of his Carabinieri station, asking for help and to take away his service revolver, to no avail.
And to bring back Neil — we tried to reach Kenji, to no avail — and just make a final whole out of it, to make that statement.
Mr. Obama made concessions to Republican senators in states like Oklahoma and Utah, and he tried for years to negotiate with others, often to no avail.
Mr. Granados said the family had tried to find the son, who had previously been convicted of a robbery, by calling police stations, to no avail.
After a review, officials ruled that the ball went through the end zone, resulting in a touchback and drawing vehement complaint from Fisher, to no avail.
The official said Nikolas Cruz had swastikas etched into his rifle magazines and, at one point, attempted to break a hurricane-proof window, to no avail.
But it's also because White House Counsel Don McGahn and Feinstein went back and forth for months hoping to come to an agreement, to no avail.
He'd been tooling around Philadelphia's music scene for more than a decade, trying out any sound that might put him on the map, to no avail.
He visited Louisiana three times during the race, twice in the last 10 days, to try to push Mr. Rispone over the line to no avail.
The editors from the publications where the reporters work told Reuters they had tried obtaining explanations from the military and the government, but to no avail.
After searching to no avail at my slew of local bodegas, I was forced to trudge to a legitimate Grocery Store to find my sweetest taboo.
Mr. Moore told me stories for an hour, him leaning on his walker, me insisting (to no avail) that maybe we find somewhere to sit down.
Yahoo, as most know, has been Silicon Valley's longest-running traffic accident, as a parade of execs have tried to revive its waning fortunes to no avail.
She had complained she was fighting the flu, went to bed on November 14 and the next morning family members tried to wake her ... to no avail.
I took years worth of language classes, downloaded all the latest apps and even bought a Muzzy tape or two off of eBay – all to no avail.
And at least one employee said he was "extremely reluctant and irritated that the FBI gave me money, and tried to give it back," to no avail.
Supporters of the amendment left the roll call open for more than five hours to try to convince skeptics to flip their votes, but to no avail.
But governments, including the United States, are trying - so far to no avail - to get the warring sides to observe a ceasefire before any vote is held.
In 2004, Trump bought a south Florida mansion — not Mar-a-Lago — for $41 million, which he then attempted to sell for $125 million to no avail.
The department is working with the Benton County Sheriff's Office in Tennessee, which has been searching for Roberta along the Tennessee River, to no avail, says Dordea.
If you find yourself playing this nightly game to no avail, you may be barking up the wrong tree when it comes to fixing your sleep troubles.
Blue Jays bench coach DeMarlo Hale, running the game for Toronto after manager John Gibbons was ejected one inning earlier, came out to argue to no avail.
As he desperately tries to pull his child back into the lift to no avail, a group of teenagers begins to muster up a plan to help.
On August 11th the anxious head of the country's main industrial association had visited Ms Tsai to ask her to restart the idle reactors, to no avail.
He says he has ferociously tried to gain contact with Barbie to no avail ... her phone has been shut off and Heather refuses to take his calls.
He says he reached out to Jay-Z's peeps in May 2010 to inquire about his missing royalty checks, and also update his address ... to no avail.
And Perkins claimed that she argued for stipulations in her own settlement that she thought would prevent Weinstein from engaging in such behavior again — to no avail.
In the third quarter of 2018, Munchery, at the recommendation of its board, hired an investment bank to find a buyer for the startup, to no avail.
Drones, Canadian Air Force planes, canine units, ATVs, helicopters, boats, and thermal-imaging cameras have been deployed to seek-out the duo, so far to no avail.
First Responders retrieved his lifeless body and transported him to nearby St. Joseph Hospital West where CPR was performed for an additional 43 minutes to no avail.
Oregon police have spent five days, to no avail, searching for the 11 Republican state senators who fled the capital rather than vote on climate change legislation.
Bulls says ever since June and her BF, Geno Doak, were busted back in March ... he's made several attempts to contact his clients, but to no avail.
Though Jensen had assured the coaching staff he was doing his best to find a solution, to cover his obligations, it had all been to no avail.
Meanwhile, I could feel a pit in my gut as the minutes ticked by and we repeatedly called law enforcement agencies and other officials to no avail.
He said Ms. Torabi ran out of her house barefoot and climbed into an ambulance where emergency medical technicians were trying to resuscitate Elaina, to no avail.
It was her birthday and she had been trying to get some players to sign an oversized tennis ball, a U.S. Open tradition, but to no avail.
Meanwhile, friends and relatives fret, wheedle and cajole — often to no avail — to get their aging loved ones to adopt important modifications to make their homes safer.
The city government urged residents not to panic buy, trying to reassure the public that the supply chain would not be cut off -- but to no avail.
After making several attempts to get the robot to summon police officers to no avail, the Huntington woman dialed 911 on her phone, according to the report.
The U.N. has repeatedly highlighted the illegality of the blockade as a form of collective punishment and called for it to be lifted, but to no avail.
More than thirteen hundred students signed a petition calling for the college to eliminate any grade lower than a C for the semester, but to no avail.
As recently as Wednesday, May's negotiators have been trying to wrestle final concessions from the EU to appease both the DUP and Brexiteers, but to no avail.
She also highlights the fact that "literally every company in America," utilizes sexual harassment training in the workplace, in accordance with Supreme Court rulings, to no avail.
The government even resorted to implementing artificial intelligence, facial recognition, and blockchain technologies on some farms to monitor the pig&aposs health to no avail, Ma reported.
In the decade leading up to Tony Hawk's historic landing of the 900 at the 1999 X Games, he had attempted the trick countless times to no avail.
Using high-speed video, the researchers confirmed that pallid bats attack Arizona bark scorpions, and that the scorpions sting the bats in self-defence—but to no avail.
The radio traffic also indicated that a negotiator was concerned about a woman being held hostage and repeatedly asked to talk to a male hostage, to no avail.
I looked over and saw my daughter tugging on a hose, and somebody trying to turn it but to no avail—I later found out it was kinked.
Trump, who has previously expressed a willingness to meet Iranian leaders to no avail, on Thursday renewed that appeal in an impromptu news conference at the White House.
Amazon is the first streaming service to receive an Academy Award nomination — edging out Netflix, which campaigned aggressively for Beasts of No Nation last year to no avail.
Diwali is celebrated with firecrackers and has posed a persistent pollution problem -- last year, the Indian Supreme Court banned the sale of most firecrackers, but to no avail.
Khamenei said the "anti-Iran" conference in Warsaw had failed: "America invites weak and frightened puppets to conspire against Iran in Warsaw but to no avail," he said.
During redirect, and over numerous objections from Baxley, lead prosecutor Matt Hart tried to ask Williamson if anyone had pressured him to change his testimony, to no avail.
Murray was tested at 4:36 of the second period when Zach Hyman tried to ram home the puck from the edge of the crease to no avail.
That was my mistake with the baseball bat guy: I was trying to Tase him—to no avail; the probes bounced off—after he'd introduced a deadly weapon.
The boyfriend also informed responding officers that the couple's infant daughter was missing from the home, and police searched the entire premises and immediate vicinity to no avail.
Kuwait has been trying to mediate and the United States has taken an increasingly robust role in trying to end the crisis, but as yet to no avail.
Knowing that Fister was attacking the strike zone, St. Louis became more aggressive to no avail as the night progressed, making eight outs on first and second pitches.
Axios reported on Thursday that Trump had pressured Sessions on at least four separate occasions last year to reclaim control of the Russia investigation, but to no avail.
After trying to signal to her husband that she felt Ricardel was working against her staff, to no avail, Trump took matters into her own, very public hands.
See, instead of making a clear exit, Wintour "slid into the basement of Madison Square Garden," where she would wander around for half an hour, to no avail.
And because it sucks so much, the newly-single people of the world have tried time and time again to stop this destructive behavior, often to no avail.
Risner's friends and a parent tried to put Vaseline on her arms to push the Barney head off, but their efforts were to no avail, NBC News reports.
For some time Turkey has put an effort to prove the US affiliation between the PYD-PKK through top level negotiations  but to no avail up till now.
In the days leading up to the launch the White House urged Chinese Ppresident Xi Jinping to use his influence to stop Kim Jong-un, to no avail.
Once he was inaugurated in 2009, Obama made an effort to work with congressional Republicans — to no avail, his former director of legislative affairs Phil Schiliro told Vox.
Mr. Hofeller, by then a founder of a public-policy research institute at Claremont McKenna College, his alma mater, proposed an alternative set of maps, to no avail.
Sebastian tried to sell me, to no avail, on the benefits of "keto-clarity," or the enlightened mental state that comes from a low-carb, high-fat diet.
Issues had cropped up: a parent raising concerns about his behavior at Twistars; a female athlete or two at Michigan State complaining to no avail about inappropriate exams.
Robert O'Hare of the New York Police Department, who testified that the "situation had become dangerous" and that he had warned Mr. Williams to stop, to no avail.
In nearby Hamburg, a town roughly triple the size of Pacific Junction, residents have lobbied lawmakers for years to make their levees stronger and higher, to no avail.
Mr Ren says that Google has been lobbying the Trump administration to allow it to resume supplying Huawei with proprietary Android software, but so far to no avail.
"The home run by Springer, that was a tough blow," said Kershaw, the Dodgers' ace, who pitched four scoreless innings in relief after Darvish departed, to no avail.
Juventus is showing precious little sign of depriving him: Massimiliano Allegri has shifted his team's system to try to spark something into life, but all to no avail.
As Morrison was preparing for the Trump-Zelensky meeting at the United Nations in September, he tried to get access to the call record again, to no avail.
I tweeted a clarification about the falsehood to no avail: My social media accounts and my phone were inundated with WhatsApp messages urging others to gang-rape me.
J rack of distended tops, who was different from the person who gamely tried to track down a Deveaux silk resort shirt in my size, to no avail.
Navarro spent several years sending out a stream of résumés, to no avail, while also caring full time for her two grade school children and an older daughter.
Trump officials even tried to back-channel conservative ideas with allies in Congress to defund "sanctuary cities" or push for more border wall spending, but to no avail.
Trump officials even tried to back-channel conservative ideas with allies in Congress to defund sanctuary cities or push for more border wall spending, but to no avail.
Better still, the two featherweights were scheduled to no avail in 2013, so their pairing would mark the fruition of a long-discussed, and highly compelling featherweight matchup.
Cilic spent the two days between that semifinal and the final with "a lot of needles" in his foot trying to drain the blisters, ultimately to no avail.
And that's a shame, because we've had so many good actors throwing themselves at their arcs this season to no avail — shoutout to Karl Makinen's "grieving father" soliloquy!
Regional leaders have been involved in repeated efforts to encourage Jammeh to step aside in recent months, including last-minute attempts by Mauritania and Senegal, to no avail.
When the announcement was first made last week that McCarthy had drawn the assignment Jones' camp registered their objections with the Nevada State Athletic Commission, but to no avail.
During debate, Democrats, who are outnumbered in the chamber 77-28, attempted to add an amendment that would create exceptions for cases of rape and incest to no avail.
"As everybody is aware, the past Administration has long been asking for three hostages to be released from a North Korean Labor camp, but to no avail," Trump tweeted.
After years of trying a number of expensive products to no avail, Zhao finally turned to a skin expert, who created personalized products developed specifically to her skin type.
Wikileaks has become increasingly reckless in its approach (and Assange obviously desperate for Trump's favor, to no avail) since the self-imposed exile in the embassy began in 2012.
In the months gone by, Maker has been courted by various colleges including Notre Dame, Arizona State and Kansas, albeit apparently to no avail in light of Sunday's announcement.
Over the years he had tried to reach out, including a request to the International Committee of the Red Cross to find his wife's contacts, but to no avail.
There is a generosity to Berryhill's paintings that is rare in today's art world, which is full of people announcing their seriousness, importance, and greatness, all to no avail.
For years civil liberties groups like the ACLU and some senators (namely Ron Wyden D-OR) have been trying to pry this information out of Clapper to no avail.
Joyce, now 68, raced to the hospital and by the time she arrived, the medical staff had been trying to revive her son for 43 minutes to no avail.
Both men acknowledge climate change is an issue, while Banks was among the few administration officials who urged Trump to stay in the Paris Climate Agreement (to no avail).
At one point, the company had even offered $5 million in gift cards to Brazil and Peru, the ACTO member states who originally filed the complaint, to no avail.
While the dog was cooling off in Saint Vrain Creek, "he was swept away and his owner searched for an hour for him, to no avail," the post said.
The Loganos say they've been calling around to local animal shelters, dialing 311 and have been putting up flyers all around their neighborhood in Charlotte -- but to no avail.
In the video -- obtained by TMZ -- you see the panic set in as her driver tries a couple times to get it turned on, to no avail at first.
She used to go to the hospital to ask about her drugs every week, taking time off work, and writing complaints to the health ministry, but to no avail.
After the county worked to hold Pokémon Go game developer Niantic accountable for the mounting costs of cleanup and nighttime security to no avail, the special ordinance was passed.
Every one of the other so-called P5 partners to the deal -- Russia, China, the EU, and the UN -- all have made a similar case, apparently to no avail.
Third baseman Maikel Franco and center fielder Odubel Herrera, who had been benched this week due to batting slumps, returned to the lineup but to no avail for Philadelphia.
FOR THE PAST SIX YEARS/ SEVEN SEASONS I HAVE ASKED, BEGGED, AND EVEN DEMANDED CREATIVE CREDIT FOR ALL THE IDEAS, AWARD WINNING ROUTINES, THEMES, AND COSTUMING - TO NO AVAIL!
And as we saw with the latest scandal involving Wells Fargo, several former employees say they tried to get the company's attention in 2005 and 2006, to no avail.
"During that half a kilometre run, he fired some more gunshots in the air as well, to frighten the guys but to no avail," said Muhammad Razzaq Chaudhry, 58.
Native American elders have been pleading with Walker to renounce short-term thinking and commit to acting like the "true conservatives" who value ecological conservation, generally to no avail.
Gayle King lamented on Instagram that she and her nephew Cameron Harrison had gone on a quest to find the sandwich, to no avail — after over a dozen tries.
That the president was so moved by these pictures had given some hope to the tens of thousands of refugees in line for U.S. resettlement, but to no avail.
Mr. Morales has met with the United Nations secretary general, António Guterres, to lay out his complaints against Mr. Velásquez and limit the commission's mandate — all to no avail.
Mr. Reiter, an accountant who worked for Mr. Weinstein for decades, was increasingly alarmed by his behavior toward women and had raised concerns within the company, to no avail.
After the decision in Smith was announced, a broad coalition of religious groups and civil rights organizations urged the Supreme Court to rehear the case, all to no avail.
Zverev, who beat Sonego&aposs countryman Marco Cecchinato in the first round, had tried a similar shot at the Margaret Court Arena on the same day to no avail.
A Republican senator said McConnell sees a "political benefit" in moving legislation in response to the shootings but does not want to work endlessly on legislation to no avail.
Mr. Priebus had tried to play an advisory role with Mitt Romney, the Republican presidential nominee in 2012, to no avail, aggravating some aides in the campaign's Boston headquarters.
According to two sources, Atwood asked if she could report directly to Kalanick on at least two occasions, said sources inside and outside the company, but to no avail.
Its government maintains smooth relations with Doha and has made several attempts to mediate between Qatar and its Gulf neighbors to help quell the conflict — thus far to no avail.
The school district appealed the decision several times over the years to no avail, until in 2007, when the school district appealed to the 10th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals.
In a new promo for Nickelodeon's Kids Choice Awards, the "Sangria" singer – who's hosting the show this year – attempts to win a smile from the famous feline to no avail.
The accuser said Spacey's alleged touching went on for about three minutes and that he tried to move away and moved Spacey's hands away, to no avail, the report states.
Mary Klein, a retired journalist who lives in Washington, DC, and has terminal ovarian cancer, said she has sought medical aid-in-dying from five different doctors to no avail.
In audio shared on the sheriff's office's Facebook page, a woman is heard telling the dispatcher that the alarm company tried to make contact with the homeowner, to no avail.
The Prelims: Saffiedine Out-Strikes Ellenberger to Unanimous Win After being scheduled to no avail on two previous locations, Jake Ellenberger and Tarec Saffiedine finally got at it in Newark.
The 31-year-old reality star has long been Rob Kardashian's biggest fan, opening her home to the 29-year-old and offering the former recluse help to no avail.
More recently, G-20 economic summits have also been warning – to no avail – about the need to reduce trade imbalances because of their depressing and destabilizing effects on world economy.
Around this time last year ,Vogue UK tried to make a case for the sheepskin boots, and Fashionsy made a push for their revival in 2013 — both to no avail.
The founders of Seattle-based Modus cold-emailed Pete Flint, the founder of Trulia and a current managing partner at the venture capital firm NFX, for months, to no avail.
Per the reports, Craig tries to seduce Lashana on camera to no avail -- and it seems like her character might be the main protagonist in any Bond films going forward.
He was (appropriately) beside himself over the error, and did everything imaginable to try to recover the data — including sending the SD card to a forensics lab — to no avail.
The Obama administration has called for repealing it, and several bipartisan measures to do so have been introduced in Congress, all to no avail given the gridlock over tax reform.

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