Sentences with phrase «little avail»

It has changed its production and sourcing practices in a bid to adapt, but to little avail so far.

«Knowledge, ability, experience are of little avail in reaching high success if courtesy is lacking.

The measure has been pushed for the last decade at the Capitol to little avail in the Senate as lawmakers there have raised concerns over a one - year look back window for old cases of abuse.

Critical faculties are of little avail against the soulful eyes of an adorable canine.

As an avid photographer I find your food photography just excellent — I have tried on a few occasions to replicate the soft textured feel of your work, but to little avail!!

But it was to little avail as Liverpool were back in the ascendancy after the break as Divock Origi brought a smart save out of Hart with a shot from a tight angle.

Republicans have tried for years to flip the suburban Senate district to little avail despite spending heavily and redrawing the district to more favorable boundaries in 2012.

IMO, it really showed in their success pressuring those two guys with Sutton's 3 - and 4 - man rushes, when they'd use the same scheme and same themes to little avail against QBs who can move around.

As it often was the case with the father who disinherited his son that the outward fact was of little avail to him, he did not by this get free of his son, at least his thought did not; as is often the case with the lover's curse upon the hated one (i.e. the loved one) that it does not help much, it almost imprisons him the more — so it is in the case of the despairing self with relation to itself.

One is a safe Democratic seat in the Bronx and other is a district in Westchester County that has been in the cross hairs of Republicans to little avail in the last decade.

A spate of government policies have tried to temper Vancouver's housing prices, to little avail.

Myspace tried numerous redesigns to get back in the game, to little avail, and in June of 2009 Myspace cut its staff by about 30 %, to around 1,000 employees.

After exploring new seed varieties from international seed companies to little avail, landraces from diverse sources within Cuba were investigated.

The Manchester United loanee has suffered since he moved to Madrid on loan in the summer — having spent much of his time training to little avail.

However, Arsenal soon regained their composure in the centre of midfield, and looked to create chances, but to little avail.

There were also calls for Cameron to hand more control over election strategy to Lynton Crosby, who the Tories have brought in to help mastermind their 2015 campaign — although Crosby's record of focusing on welfare and immigration was already tested in Eastleigh, to little avail.

Democrats have sought to flip Donovan's seat for the last several election cycles, but to little avail.

The evidence session, which came as George Osborne accused Ed Balls of being involved in the scandal, saw members of the Treasury committee issue increasingly brutal attacks on the bank boss, but to little avail.

Republicans have spent heavily to flip the seat to little avail.

Criminal justice reform advocates including the Police Reform Organizing Project, the Drug Policy Alliance, and many others have continuously sounded the alarm about that fact, to little avail.

Councilmember Mark Weprin also ponied up from his campaign coffer, dispensing $ 11,250 to seven individual council campaigns, all to little avail.

The campaign money was spent to little avail: Republicans swept three upstate Democratic incumbents from the chamber and held on to all of their seats on Long Island, securing a full majority in the chamber this past November.

Since then, Miliband has been trying to express that message, to little avail.

He then extensively misquoted John Healey, to little avail and with no connection to the matter at hand.

Senate Republicans have advanced proposals to cap New York City's property taxes each year for the past three years, to little avail.

Republicans at all levels this election cycle sought to make an issue out of the harassment scandals, but to little avail, especially on the statewide level.

Recently the Rockland County Times reported that: Residents of New Hempstead, Pomona, Hillcrest, Spring Valley and New City have been protesting the plans for a slaughterhouse in New Square for several years, but apparently to little avail, as opponents say the plans are progressing to the point where actual construction may soon begin.

Been «re-building» for several years to little avail.

However, after witnessing him labor to look like an effective badass to little avail, it's probably best he evolve slowly from the meek geek roles rather than try to portray the polar opposite.

Gavin pushes a button to start one thing, and another starts instead, while other buttons are pushed to little avail.

Separating couple, Ted and Marion (Basinger, People I Know), try to cope with the changes in their personalities after the deaths of their two teenage sons several years back, but to little avail — they need to be apart.

Trank should've moved on; certainly, rebooting a franchise that Fox seems intent on flogging to little avail wouldn't appear to be the best use of his talent.

The main body of the car, clothed in a gorgeous cloak of the Alloro green paint originally developed for the rare, Zagato - bodied Aston Martins, had fought valiantly to tone things down, but to little avail.

Taking morphia to sleep to little avail, he spent his days circulating a brief prospectus outlining the project.

With reading, though, I think sometimes you can encourage and encourage as much as you like to little avail.

The American Humane Association pursued this campaign theme for many years after former AHA publicist Fred Myers left to found HSUS in 1954, but to little avail, as HSUS ---- the younger organization by 77 years ---- was already raising more money by 1970.

For the past 10 years, original creator Alexey Pajitnov has been attempting to integrate the functionality, but to little avail.

I found myself repeatedly tapping away to buy a tower with my hard - earned elixirs to little avail.

I tried to tighten the unit to block out the light to little avail.

Biologists and ecologists have tried to point this out for years, but to little avail.

It's also why millions of Chinese are starting to come out in force in environmental protests, demanding the hitherto unresponsive state to take heed, so far to little avail.

I'm sure that would be an order of magnitude longer list as I actively beat the bushes searching for more data usually to little avail.

This was hotly debated in Warsaw, but to little avail - Lima must do much better.

After both articles, I wrote letters to the editor (here and here) gently pointing out the misconceptions and incorrect statements (though obviously to little avail).