Meanings of prove abortive in английском

All other measures will prove abortive, and you will depopulate the country.

He now felt that all his schemes would prove abortive.

Only at the third did our visit prove abortive.

All these external attempts will prove abortive, and only tend to exasperate the French to crime and madness.

They were destined to prove abortive.

Temple, when he went abroad, soon found that the scheme of mediating a peace was likely to prove abortive.

But the most evident truths frequently crouch under fear; are kept at bay by habit; prove abortive against the force of enthusiasm.

But all these schemes for promoting industry were likely to prove abortive by the fear of domestic convulsions, arising from the ambition of Warwick.

The chaplain's pilgrimage to Wintergreen had proved abortive; another shrine was empty.

Subsequent attempts at combinations were made in England, but all proved abortive.

But no; the struts held, and the attempt proved abortive.

This motion was resisted, and for the time proved abortive.

A plan for its revival on July 2d proved abortive.

All our endeavours, however, to photograph the eruption proved abortive.

Every attempt to subdue or extirpate them, has proved abortive.

Drusus, when his subsidiary measures had proved abortive, grew desperate.