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  • Felipe tried to rejuvenate it, but unsuccessfully.

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  • Ms. Clarke fought fiercely but ultimately unsuccessfully to prevent the government from forcibly administering powerful antipsychotic drugs to Mr. Loughner.

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  • When Rose grew up, Ruskin proposed, unsuccessfully, but one gets the feeling that marriage was not what he really wanted.

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  • There have been dozens of instances in which Shariah has been invoked in US courts, mostly unsuccessfully, but not always.

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  • Watching the match-saving partnership between Michael Clarke and Marcus North on Monday, I couldn't help but draw parallels between England toiling unsuccessfully and Australia missing out on an expected victory at Cardiff.

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  • Before Wolk got involved, the minority shareholders of a company Lee founded in the 1990s had for a long time unsuccessfully litigated over these characters, but Wolk has not been dissuaded.

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  • "Not only because the father was your husband and he had fathered another child outside your marriage, but also because you had been trying, unsuccessfully, to have a fourth child with your husband".

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  • She unsuccessfully tried to come back twice, but her form and lack of wrist pain this time around shows she has regained much of her strength.

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  • Frank Lampard and Michael Essien tried their luck - unsuccessfully - from range in the first half, but it was the other end that saw the clearer chances.

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  • Mr Garcia, who said he had been unsuccessfully targeted by kidnappers, said people took huge precautions but often to no avail.

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  • The U.K. and the Netherlands sued Iceland unsuccessfully in a European court to get their money back, but Iceland has nevertheless started to repay some of that money.

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  • Hearts continued to put Celtic under pressure but were unable to gain a lead before half-time with Calum Elliot claiming unsuccessfully for a penalty after his shot appeared to strike the hand of Glenn Loovens.

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  • Gerard Pique over-hit a long pass out of defence - which the out-of-sorts Torres was never likely to reach - but Chile goalkeeper and captain Claudio Bravo foolishly raced out of his penalty area to clear unsuccessfully into the path of Villa.

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  • But Jared Magolo, the accused pirates' attorney, said the prisoners were being mistreated and argued unsuccessfully that proceedings should go ahead.

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  • But in recent months, led by an aggrieved chief justice, Iftikhar Chaudhry, who General Musharraf tried unsuccessfully to sack, they have shown an unusual desire to uphold the constitution.

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  • Georgia Rep. Tom Price, who ran unsuccessfully for the fourth slot as House GOP conference chairman, has been floated as a possible successor, but few believe he is serious about taking it on, because he couldn't muster substantial votes.

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