"After the dissuasion by means of whistle-blowing, shouting and hand-flag guiding was of no avail, the Chinese naval vessels fired two red signal shells into the sky as a warning, and the signal shells burned out and extinguished in the air, " Xinhua quoted the official as saying.
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Birmingham immediately produced a spell of pressure to no avail, while Pompey grew in confidence and authority.
Businessman Pong Salud, another guest, takes me aside and tells me that some friends gave Estrada three sets of golf clubs to no avail.
However, the human rights situation in Burma is far more severe, and Washington has had sanctions on the military junta for the most of nineteen years to virtually no avail.
If she had been diagnosed with pancreatic cancer, fought through rounds of chemo and radiation to no avail, and decided against a bone marrow transplant (which, in this hypothetical situation, which reflects the vast majority of real cases, would more likely kill her than enable a cure) she would be honored and remembered as noble, virtuous and brave.
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We reached out to Nokia and it exchanged one of our phones, but to no avail.
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It appears that a rep from EasyBits Media has taken to the forums to quell some of the outrage, but to no avail.
Protestors to the Keystone XL pipeline have cited a myriad of issues with the extension, to no avail.
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These exertions are to no avail: nine out of ten people in the Palace of Westminster this spring are schoolchildren from France and Germany.
If NHS Bill 2.0 produces a botch-job of reforms that then fails in its own terms we will then have had two decades of tinkering with the NHS to no strategic avail.
The University of Connecticut appealed that ruling, but to no avail, both the school and the NCAA said Thursday.
Since then, the Republican Party has tried every sort of gimmick to undo the damage but to no avail.
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Russia implemented some judicial reforms in the 1990s and raised spending on the courts in 2000 to no avail: its rule-of-law scores have fallen in five of the past seven years.
One northern Wisconsin company, which bought its fuel in Minnesota, said it changed 50 fuel filters in a month to no avail, as its fleet of trucks ran in fits and starts .
Francis, patron saint of the environmental movement, we tried repeatedly to find a route up Monte Subasio that avoided the trash of picnickers or the roar of traffic from the motorway below, to no avail.
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There've been any number of reports telling us that services aren't set up right, aren't configured in the best way possible, any number of clinicians and health economists accusing successive Welsh governments of revamping at vast expense but to no real avail.
She said she tried -- to no avail -- to dissuade him of segregationist positions, which produced "mixed emotions" for her.
Ori Feibush had visited the Philadelphia Redevelopment Authority four times, sent in seven letters, and volunteered to manage the clean-up of a lot neighboring his business, all to no avail.
And if such further hearings do take place, hopefully Members of Congress will avail themselves of every opportunity to get to the bottom of this question of national security no matter who shows up to testify.
In the past I have proposed that the person spoken to was merely a representative of the institution, not the institution itself, often to no avail.
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But if someone is dying of something else, or is in the terminal stages of heart disease, it can issue repeated painful shocks, to no avail.
On Thursday night, the foreign ministers of France, Italy and Spain, who together are fielding a majority of the U.N. peacekeepers in the south of the country, held talks with Lebanese leaders, but to no avail.
For years, a clutch of clean tech companies has been working on creating cellulosic biofuels, to no avail.
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To no avail: Daewoo still defaulted on some 100 trillion won of debts.
The hosts sat deep inviting pressure on to them, but the Toffees huffed and puffed to no avail with Saha hitting a clear late chance into the body of Friedel - when a low shot would have troubled him more - before the Villa keeper once again denied him brilliantly.
To no avail: The house is now sealed and air-conditioned, deprived of its direct connection to the sea, the gardens and the Florida air.
They tried to stop a couple of anti-spam software developers from using the term SPAM in their trademarks, but to no avail.
Desperate to invigorate his flagging massage business, a father submits to the condescension of a wealthier couple stooping to help Soviet Jewry, an exercise that both humiliates and is to no avail.
He again tried his luck from range to no avail as half time approached, before Paul Reid's drilled drive from the edge of the area was well-saved by Reading goalkeeper Marcus Hahnemann.
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