| Cambridge did not grant women degrees until 1948, but in March 1897 Maitland delivered a superb if unavailing address favoring the women's cause. |
| Does what happened on 11 September mean that we have failed, that our ideal is but a Utopia, that all effort is unavailing? |
| Detroit Aircraft's frantic efforts to regain stability were unavailing and, in October, the corporation floundered into receivership. |
| This has been compounded by an unavailing resort to extreme force in the most heated zones of engagement. |
| The service sector has been characterized as technologically non-progressive and unavailing of opportunities for productivity growth. |
| Inquiries made of the sellers and their forwarding agents after the event were unavailing because they were either elusive or unco-operative or both. |
