After unsuccessfully asking for her hand from her father, he resolves to abduct her.

He asked unsuccessfully to be made a Serjeant to give him equality with the other Chief Justices.

The Commons Social Services committee asked unsuccessfully for both sets of figures to be produced.

Even if you didn't consider it shaky evidence, all it pointed to was Saddam unsuccessfully asking around if he could get any uranium.

Anna Surratt unsuccessfully asked for her mother's body for four years.

Over time it grew and Almácera asked unsuccessfully Alboraya segregation.

She was the one who unsuccessfully asked her husband to relax his strict methods.

The Iranian promptly but unsuccessfully asks for political asylum.

Vonny, after unsuccessfully asking her rich, divorced father for money, develops agoraphobia and can no longer leave the house.

He was among a group who asked unsuccessfully that the bomb not be dropped on civilian targets.