After finishing Vernon, FL, Morris tried unsuccessfully to get funding for a variety of projects.

After searching unsuccessfully at other sites he met Frank Calvert who told him that he had already found Troy on land owned by his family, the site known as Hissarlik.

After Hugh's store failed, the family moved to Hay Bay, west of Kingston, where Hugh unsuccessfully ran another shop.

After DuPont lost out to Roche on that sale, the company unsuccessfully disputed Mullis's patent on the alleged grounds that PCR had been previously described in 1971.

After unsuccessfully attempting to turn the business into a software company selling an enterprise version of the search software, Davis concentrated on building the company into an advertising-supported web portal.

After the Dutch East India Company was founded in 1602, the Dutch unsuccessfully attacked Macau several times, culminating in a full scale invasion attempt in 1622, when 800 attackers were successfully repelled by 150 Macanese and Portuguese defenders.

After trying unsuccessfully to attempt suicide, Heidi go on a shooting spree and kills all the characters of the movie except Sydney, Sebastian, Arthur, Seymour, Robert and Lucile.

After unsuccessfully pleading with Aeolus to help them again, they re-embarked and encountered the cannibalistic Laestrygonians.

After recruiting Deal, the band tried unsuccessfully to get her sister, Kelley Deal, to join as its drummer.

After unsuccessfully attempting to force territorial and other concessions on the Finns, the Soviet Union invaded Finland in November 1939 during the Winter War, intending to establish a communist puppet government in Finland.

After Emperor Galerius unsuccessfully invades Italy to suppress Maxentius, he is executed ( or forced to commit suicide ).

After the death of Elizabeth I in 1603, the younger Robert Dudley tried unsuccessfully to prove that his parents had married 30 years earlier in a secret ceremony.

After campaigning unsuccessfully for the Democratic nomination in 1960, Johnson was asked by John F. Kennedy to be his running mate for the 1960 presidential election.

After Glele's death in 1889, his son Behanzin tried, unsuccessfully, to challenge the treaty.

After unsuccessfully searching for a vocalist for nearly six months, Mustaine decided to handle lead vocal duties himself, while also serving as the band's primary lyricist, main songwriter, and co-lead and rhythm guitarist.

After leaving Dalhousie, he unsuccessfully pursued first-year law studies at the University of British Columbia Faculty of Law in Vancouver, British Columbia.

After a dispute and riot in 1132 at the Benedictine house, St Mary's Abbey, in York, 13 monks were expelled and, after unsuccessfully attempting to return to the early 6th-century Rule of St Benedict, were taken into the protection of Thurstan, Archbishop of York.

After losing her to her record producer, he unsuccessfully attempts to rekindle the flame with a marriage proposal.

After unsuccessfully trying to leave, using a dogsled, Silook has Taft undergo a vision quest in which he sees the truth.

After the appearance of his first book, he and Miriam traveled to the Southwest, moving on to Hollywood in 1938 where he tried, unsuccessfully, writing film scripts and worked for the WPA.

After resigning as president of the Fenian Brotherhood, John O ' Neill unsuccessfully attempted an unsanctioned raid in 1871, joining the forces of his remaining Fenian supporters with exiled members of the Red River Rebellion.

After trying unsuccessfully to manufacture candy in New York, Hershey returned to Pennsylvania, where he founded the Lancaster Caramel Company, whose use of fresh milk in caramels proved successful.

After unsuccessfully trying to plead his innocence ( by reciting the lyrics of Bob Dylan's " It Ain't Me Babe " and insisting that he did no more than " cross an imaginary line with a bunch of plants "), George skips bail to take care of Barbara, who is suffering from, and eventually succumbs to, cancer.

After unsuccessfully trying two names, the township was named in honor of Senator William Windom of Winona.

* 1997 – After at first contesting the results, Serbian President Slobodan Milošević recognizes opposition victories in the November 1996 elections.

After several major political rallies ( especially in January ), in April 1990, a sit-in protest contesting the results of the recently held parliamentary elections began in University Square, Bucharest.

** After at first contesting the results, Serbian President Slobodan Milošević recognizes opposition victories in the November 1996 elections.

After the dynastic head of the Red Turbans suspiciously died in 1367 while a guest of Zhu, there was no one left who was remotely capable of contesting his march to the throne, and he made his imperial ambitions known by sending an army toward the Yuan capital Dadu ( present-day Beijing ) in 1368.

After the Meiji Restoration, Japan had adopted an aggressive foreign policy, contesting Chinese domination of the peninsula.

After six months of fighting the Japanese ceased contesting the control of the island.

After six months of hard combat in and around Guadalcanal and dealing with jungle diseases that took a heavy toll of troops on both sides, Allied forces managed to halt the Japanese advance and dissuade them from contesting the control of the island by finally driving the last of the Japanese troops into the sea on January 15, 1943.

After his June arrest in New York City, his MySpace page stopped showing the banner, and, one day later, his management issued a statement that said that he entered a plea of not guilty and was contesting the allegations made against him.

After unsuccessfully contesting the constituency of Southampton Test at the 1959 general election, in the 1964 general election Williams was elected as Labour MP for the constituency of Hitchin in Hertfordshire, and rose quickly to a junior ministerial position.

After unsuccessfully contesting the Isle of Wight in the 1983 General Election ( 34, 904 votes ), she was elected to Parliament with 21, 545 votes in a by-election in 1984 ( filling the seat left vacant by the death of Maurice Macmillan, son of former prime minister Harold Macmillan ), as the Member for South West Surrey, received her first ministerial position in 1988 as a Parliamentary Under-Secretary at the Department of the Environment and was appointed Minister of State at the Department of Health in 1989.

After contesting West Bromwich East in the general election in October 1974, he became the MP for Putney in the 1979 general election.

After unsuccessfully contesting the constituency of North Kensington in 1966 and 1970, he was elected to parliament in the general election of February 1974 for Cleveland and Whitby, and became an opposition spokesman in 1976.

After Malkin criticized hip hop artist Akon for " degrading women " in a Vent episode, Akon's record label, Universal Music Group, forced YouTube to remove the video by issuing a DMCA takedown notice, but decided to retract this notice after the Electronic Frontier Foundation joined Malkin and Hot Air in contesting the removal as a misuse of copyright law.

After Ketchel's murder Papke was one of several middleweights contesting the right to be called World Middleweight Champ.

After catching Laura's bouquet, he declares he is contesting his divorce.

After contesting the charge and appealing the penalty at the AFL Tribunal, Judd was suspended for three weeks.

After making a name for herself as the Assistant National Secretary of the Australian Labor Party ( ALP ), Broad moved into politics, contesting a safe Labor seat at the 1999 Victorian state election.

After unsuccessfully contesting the seat of Shoreditch and Finsbury in both 1950 and 1951, he became MP for Norwich South in 1955.

After unsuccessfully contesting the Anglesey constituency in both 1945 and 1950, he was elected to Parliament in the 1951 general election, defeating Megan Lloyd George.

After unsuccessfully contesting parliamentary seats in Liverpool, Walton in 1885 and Widnes in 1886, Birrell was elected to parliament for West Fife at a by-election in 1889, as a Liberal.

After unsuccessfully contesting seats in the elections of 2004, they eventually merged with the Popular Orthodox Rally.

After unsuccessfully contesting the 1981 general election in Galway East, Burke was nominated by the Taoiseach, Garret FitzGerald to the 15th Seanad.

After unsuccessfully contesting Ayr Burghs at the 1945 general election, Ross was elected Member of Parliament for Kilmarnock in a by-election in 1946.

2007 brought increased hardcourt success for Robredo: After years of contesting finals on red clay he reached the final of a tournament played on hardcourts for the first time at Auckland, followed by two more hardcourt finals at Beijing and Metz.