Diane Guerrero

Throughout my childhood, I watched my parents try to become legal but to no avail. They lost their money to people they believed to be attorneys but who ultimately never helped. That meant my childhood was haunted by the fear that they would be deported.

American Actress

Hope Jahren

We must feed, shelter, and nurture one another as our first priority, and to do so, we must avail ourselves of our best technologies, which have always included some type of genetic modification.

American Scientist

Lakhdar Brahimi

It also seems that the Afghans themselves want to avail themselves of this opportunity and all recognize that the UN is uniquely qualified to help bring them together.

Algerian Public Servant

Jakob Bohme

Just as a drop of water in the ocean cannot avail much; but if a great river runneth into it, that maketh a great commotion.

German Theologian

Joel Robuchon

The worst thing for me is to not taste what I'm eating, to not know what I'm eating. It upsets me to no avail.

French Chef

Franz Kafka

We all have wings, but they have not been of any avail to us and if we could tear them off, we would do so.

Novelist

Aldous Huxley

There is no substitute for talent. Industry and all its virtues are of no avail.

English Novelist

N. R. Narayana Murthy

The lack of financial strength to avail healthcare is a major challenge.

Indian Businessman

Thomas Carlyle

No amount of ability is of the slightest avail without honor.

Scottish Philosopher

Bobby Sherman

I have to be motivated, and I'm sure time will avail itself.

American Musician

Used when actions have no effect or success, conveying disappointment.

Futile Efforts

Indicates a small or marginal benefit in a situation.

Slight Advantage

Commonly used with negation, as in 'to no avail.'

Often Negated

When something is 'to no avail,' it means efforts have failed.

Expression of Failure

Highlights the practical value or usefulness of something.

Value Emphasized

Considered formal or outdated, use in modern idiomatic expressions.

Old-fashioned

Emphasizes taking action to gain something beneficial.

Proactive Use

Used when someone takes advantage of an opportunity.

Opportunity Taken

Used when describing an individual's use of something for personal gain.

Personal Benefit

 in which case it would have to be here. And somewhere up there would be the chance that a frog would turn into a prince, and similar magical things like that. If life has arisen on only one planet in the entire universe, that planet has to be our planet, because here we are talking about it. And that means that if we want to avail ourselves of it,

Why the universe seems...

 avail and eventually I slinked into my office feeling defeated and a few hours later I was sitting on an airplane and I was thinking about this this situation and feeling terrible that I hadn't been able to make a connection between these two people who I care deeply about and as I sat on this plane I actually

Why I can’t remember...

 emergency services it was like an unbelievable nightmare everything I owned the whole trip has just disappeared into the night on the steppe within 30 seconds I employed the local police the rescue services to help me however there was the searching was to no avail I went back to the police

Tim Cope: On the Trail...

 on with polar bears with climate change warming their environments and decreasing the amount of sea ice they are definitely under threat because their main way of hunting prey is becoming less and less avail available to them and then the other species of bears across the world are also

Face-to-Face with a Bear...

 chuffed to no avail there is something deeply disquieting about watching a mother looking for her baby without success fear for the beloved cub began to build as the hot silent afternoon wore on and tandi's efforts continued to burn no fruit

Safari Live - Day 222 PIPE...

 may be only a curtain raiser - what could blow up one day in the future what shall it avail our nation if we can place a man on the moon but cannot cure the sickness in our cities this is bill stout for CBS reports in Los Angeles good night

LA92 Panel - Live PIPE...

 with in fingaz vessels and the Congolese king observed the gradual corrupting effect of the whole sorted operation he attempted to control reduce or even stop it to no avail the most gut-wrenching of his letters refers to quote thieves and

Africa’s rhyming history...

 He tried to buy and destroy every copy of the article containing his blunder, but to no avail. Their mutual resentment blossomed. After the transcontinental railroad was completed the following year,

The most notorious...

 all these opportunities are given to us, but they are opportunities, and those who avail themselves of those opportunities are the ones that we admire. They make something out of life.

Want to be happy? Be...

 avail until his death in 1915 the issue was revisited time and again throughout the world but it wasn't officially put into practice nationwide until the early

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