West tried in vain to resuscitate her son as bystanders called 911 for help.
The residents of the town tried in vain to urge the family back up the estuary.
Mary Beth Aasen tried in vain to call her daughter for about 30 minutes before Maggie called her.
Furious Republicans tried in vain to prevent the Democrats from naming another candidate so close to election day.
She says she tried in vain to dissuade her son, aged 19 at the time, from joining the police.
Next came the gurus of personal development ( a group in which I tried in vain to be included).
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Ms Tooby's partner, Mike McGuffie, praised the actions of those who saved the boys' lives, and tried in vain to help their mother.
When the pain increased and the infection appeared not to clear up, she tried in vain to make an appointment to see the gynaecologist.
Ospreys tried in vain to make their numerical superiority count but the hosts extended their lead with a late Laidlaw penalty to secure victory.
He added: ''Reid admitted her actions from the outset, notably to those first emergency responders who tried in vain to save Mr Whyte's life.
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In France, Thomson Multimedia was once a dismal television maker that the government tried in vain to give away to South Korea's Daewoo in 1996.
The tourists, resuming the final day on 123-5 were all out soon after lunch as they tried in vain to chase the world record 436 to win.
Moore had an up-and-down record as an athletic director, as Alabama tried in vain to find the right coach to fill the shoes of Bryant and then Gene Stallings.
Yet in the hours before the ceremony, Mr. Morsi tried in vain to prevent the swearing-in from being carried live on television, Al Shorouq, an Egyptian daily newspaper, reported.
The interbank market tried in vain to trigger stop-losses sub-1.3460, ran smack into central bank support, got themselves short and now have been chasing the EUR higher ever since.
Banks including JPMorgan, Deutsche Bank and UniCredit also tried in vain to pump up interest in the Alliance Boots deal, having already postponed the sale to this week from last.
Suu Kyi's lawyers are expected to argue that the pro-democracy advocate knew nothing about the American's plan to visit her and that she tried in vain to get him to leave.
In December a team from the Brazilian Environmental Institute (IBAMA) tried in vain to find the bird in the Curaca region, some 600 km (370 miles) north of Salvador de Bahia.
Mr Macdonald also said he had "tried in vain to get minsisters to confirm that commitment" and that "affordable housing had taken one of the biggest hits in the spending review".
The difference, however, is that Scrushy was beloved by the people of Birmingham, Ala, while Lay and Skilling are vilified in Houston, so much that the defense tried in vain to move the trial to another city.
That money has oiled the gears of a banking machine that was grinding to a disastrous halt, lifting worries that euro-zone banks would lose access to funding as they tried in vain to raise money from unwilling investors.
Brown's stage act was as memorable, and as imitated, as his records, with his twirls and spins and flowing cape, his repeated faints to the floor at the end as band members tried in vain to get him to leave the stage.
But Mbu was first to strike, glancing an inswinging Scott McBride corner towards goal and, despite the efforts of Richard Walker who tried in vain to keep the ball out at the far post, the ball ended up in the back of the net.
For years, she had tried in vain to make sense of that moment of farewell, but all she could recall was two heads bobbing before vanishing under the boat, the linked arms of two other friends, and a wave from Meimei, the youngest of the six, as she sank beneath the surface.
Federer was increasingly forced into mistakes as he tried in vain to finish off the rallies quickly, with Murray finding a consistent depth with his groundstrokes and scrambling brilliantly, and after an errant call denied the Swiss at 1-2 and break point down, he then hammered a forehand into the tramlines on the replayed point.
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In a global depression, though, Governments have again tried, in vain, to stimulate economies when they should have been figuring out how to enforce the basic laws of capitalism.
The couple had tried to get pregnant in vain for five years until Dion underwent in-vitro fertilization.
"For the past two years I have tried every effort to save LCD from falling apart, but all in vain, " Mr Mosisili said.
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