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The Byzantine Emperor at the time, Manuel II (1391–1425), tried to appease his enemies by allowing a Turkish district, mosque, and tribunal within his city, and by courting Turkish goodwill with gifts of gold, but to no avail.
The Houston Chronicle reported that when Abraham showed up at the hospital after Selena's shooting, he said she wouldn't want a blood transfusion because of her faith (by that point, though, she'd already been given blood, to no avail).
They could avail themselves, therefore, of a body of law already developed to secure the mutual recognition of the states of “all Privileges and Immunities” of citizens in sister states.
Oklahomans have prayed for divine intervention to no avail.
She spent all her money on private eyes, to no avail.