He was chosen to provide power as a winchman rather than for any previous sailing experience; the challenge was ultimately unsuccessful.

A move that, even if ultimately unsuccessful, would further delay a development that was first mooted almost a decade ago.

His legal career was, perhaps, of less interest to him than his burgeoning political career, but in this he was ultimately unsuccessful.

He was a leading proponent of the ultimately unsuccessful bid to develop a new showpiece concert hall for the city.

The first wave of the heroic, but ultimately unsuccessful, operation was undertaken by a mixture of paratroopers and glider pilots.

The gap has been bridged by government borrowing on an ever larger and ultimately unsustainable scale.

Almost 100 billion of that came in 2006 and 2007, the final years of the debt boom, helping to fuel an ultimately unsustainable level of personal spending.

Each reminded me how consistently well-made these were but also how fundamentally objectionable and ultimately unsustainable the partnership's act was.

During that era of simmering consumer interest in the nutritional merits of whole wheat flour, these mills realized modest but ultimately unsustainable success.

The rift was a result of the antagonistic separation of town and country, and the social-ecological relations of production created by capitalism were ultimately unsustainable.

My work was a bit weird, the prize ultimately useless to me, and everyone who hadn't won was left disgruntled.

Decades of promises have been broken by ugly, faulty and ultimately useless contraptions carrying extortionate price tags.

Since there are many different types of print, using just one diagram with all the information available for that equipment on the same page would be cluttered and ultimately useless.