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How to use the word unsuccessfully in a Sentence?

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Life is too short to learn everything by experience,” Mattis told reporters after the event. “In these books we can find situations that are similar to what we confront today. ... We can study how women and men in the past have dealt with situations successfully or unsuccessfully.”

Defense Secretary Jim Mattis

added by MoWali
2 years ago

It was not for the first time that South Korean pilots tried unsuccessfully to prevent Russian aircraft from flying over the neutral waters of the Sea of ??Japan.

The Russian ministry

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

Monsanto is arguing the same worn out arguments it unsuccessfully used in the first trial.

Michael Miller

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

We have made the argument, unsuccessfully to date, to both Russia and China that they are not helping themselves, if they are concerned ... about the recovery of money they have lent or invested, a bankrupt Venezuelan economy will never be able to repay those amounts, only a Venezuela in recovery will be able to do so.

Elliott Abrams

Found on Reuters
5 years ago

We've been trying to work something out, unsuccessfully, with the government, who seems intent on pressing forward with incarceration, notwithstanding, you know, a pretty weak case.

Robert Driscoll

Found on CNN
5 years ago

Presidents have been trying unsuccessfully for years to get Germany and other rich NATO Nations to pay more toward their protection from Russia. They pay only a fraction of their cost, on top of it all, Germany just started paying Russia, the country they want protection from, Billions of Dollars for their Energy needs coming out of a new pipeline from Russia. Not acceptable ! All NATO Nations must meet their 2 % commitment, and that must ultimately go to 4 % !

Donald Trump

Found on CNN
5 years ago

I hear from lots of people looking for love, unsuccessfully, that they’ve got a restrictive list of ‘filters,’ including age, when you open your age range filter by including younger people among your possibilities, you’ve got a whole new group of folks to date.

April Masini

Found on FOX News
7 years ago

Ludwig von Beethoven had never mastered the elements of arithmetic beyond addition and subtraction. A thirteen-year-old boy whom he had befriended tried unsuccessfully to teach him simple multiplication and division.

Jan Ehrenwald.

added by anonymous
13 years ago

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