21. Efforts to reach DeBerg for comment were unavailing . 22. And two messages left on Fine Art Fashion's answering machine were unavailing . 23. Sex shop owners themselves complain bitterly that their requests for information have been unavailing . 24. Efforts to reach both Thursday night were unavailing . 25. Efforts to reach his Geneva lawyer, Dominique Poncet, were unavailing late Monday. 26. Efforts to reach Cooksey Wednesday night were unavailing . 27. Efforts to reach Cool Web officials by phone and e-mail were unavailing . 28. George Gilpin of the Merchant Adventurers also made some unavailing efforts for his release. 29. Danny Manning left . Attempts to acquire a full-fledged star have been unavailing . 30. But fearing that even these precautions might prove unavailing , we 3 Europeans-viz.