send away empty-handed

The elders of the town had made their plea and been sent away empty-handed.

One of them I have sent away empty-handed, but he says he will be back for you in arms.

To some he gave a hot dog and asked for no money, and others he sent away empty-handed.

Should they be send away empty-handed?

All the signs are that GM and Cerberus will not be sent away empty-handed.

As a former armaments manufacturer, BMW was sent away empty-handed.

A pre-tournament favorite, Clijsters is sent away empty-handed in Australia

He sent another servant, but that one they also beat and treated shamefully and sent away empty-handed.

In July, Spitzer received $50,000, and Tuck was sent away empty-handed.

By complicated trickery led by Figaro, Bégearss is finally outwitted and sent away empty-handed and furious.

The saddest sight on a recent visit was not the patients waiting for check-ups, counselling, art therapy and gym training, but the mothers being sent away empty-handed to seek help for their addict children nearer home.

It is important to remember therefore, that if something does not appear in the directory readers should be encouraged to consult other sources and/or contact the BUFVC directly, rather than be sent away empty-handed.

The chief executives of General Motors, Ford and Chrysler were sent away empty-handed by Congress last week and told to return by early December with more detailed proposals for long-term recovery in return for government cash.

And they call them Saracens, inasmuch as they were sent away empty-handed by Sarah (ek tes Sarras kenous); for it was said to the angel by Hagar: "Sarah has sent me away empty-handed" (cf.

In fact, although this team, which is headed by an American official, David Kay, was sent away empty-handed, one United Nations official said it managed to copy a large number of the plans and get these copies out of the building undetected by the Iraqs.

A Grave Matter' Vitaly N. Ignatenko, Mr. Gorbachev's spokesman, went further, warning at a news conference that while no one expected "President Gorbachev to come away from this meeting with these black limos filled to the brim with money," it would be a grave matter if he was sent away empty-handed.