The city council later took unsuccessful legal action to recover its lost investment.

He brought an unsuccessful action against his friends, and seriously proposed that they should go into confinement as an atonement.

He was serving on her when she had 15 men killed in an unsuccessful action off the west coast of Cuba towards the close of 1803.

Scappaticci denied the claims and launched an unsuccessful legal action to have the British government state he was not their agent.

A five-year string of unsuccessful legal actions against the government followed, during which Zhang managed to elude arrest.

He commanded the rear guard in an unsuccessful action at Schwanenstadt on 18 December.

His troops acquitted themselves well in this unsuccessful action.

On Lord Methuen himself no blame can rest for this unsuccessful action.

This unsuccessful action was the first open revolt against the Portuguese from within Goa.

From the point of view of the doctor, even an unsuccessful action can have negative effects on career, and the action will be time consuming.