Ryan's mother, Carol Duffin, was so angered by the early start which she says has been creeping earlier in her district for years she launched "Save Tennessee Summers" seven years ago and lobbied state lawmakers unsuccessfully for legislation barring a pre-Labor Day first bell.
But one who is said not to share that view is Colin Powell, America's secretary of state, who tried unsuccessfully to build broad international support within the United Nations to disarm Saddam of weapons of mass destruction.
He unsuccessfully ran for the state's top office in 1994.
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In 2011, city officials tried unsuccessfully to convince the state to change a "last-in-first-out" rule that dictates newer teachers must be laid off before those with more time on the job.
Mr. Dutschke ran unsuccessfully as a Republican for the state House of Representatives in 2007.
Dutrow had unsuccessfully appealed the license revocation in state courts, with the punishment put on hold until the New York Court of Appeals in January declined to hear his latest appeal.
Spain's government for months argued with Brussels, ultimately unsuccessfully, to allow for some flexibility on state-aid rules that require investors share the burden with taxpayers.
Last week he lectured parliament, unsuccessfully, about the moral hazard of its plan to offer an unlimited state guarantee for bank deposits.
Last spring, when advocates for the homeless unsuccessfully sued the Bloomberg administration to force it to continue Advantage, a state Court of Appeals judge asked the lawyer representing the city a question: Isn't it more expensive for the city to pay to shelter the homeless than to help these families pay rent on a permanent home?
There, too, he played the odd man out, running unsuccessfully for Congress in 1994 and 1996 as a Republican in a traditionally Democratic state.
One survivor, 24-year-old Mariana Magalhaes, told Brazil's state-run Agencia Brasil news agency, that she witnessed the band's singer unsuccessfully trying to put out the fire with an extinguisher.
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