Sentence examples for had been hapless from inspiring English sources

For a Partick defence that had been hapless last weekend, the challenge was daunting: how to contain Celtic's blistering attacks.

Another difference was that goaltender Jonathan Quick was as sharp in the early stages Tuesday as he had been hapless last Saturday, stopping all 14 shots he faced in the first period.

The Japanese government has been hapless.

Danish police have increased their presence in the Copenhagen trouble spots, but so far they have been hapless bystanders.

They add that the FEC has been hapless in providing the kind of contribution disclosures that the Supreme Court acknowledged were necessary for an informed electorate.

He has been hapless in trying to prevent the bankers from continuing to line their own pockets with obscene bonuses - now at the expense of the taxpayers as well as their own shareholders.

Its few efforts at policymaking including a doomed effort to put the army-run ISI into civilian hands— have mostly been hapless.

(He had been similarly hapless when he was made a sergeant in the Army and, later, as an art teacher).

Thus, Sri Lanka had been as hapless with the bat as their bowlers were frustrated by the carefree bat of Moeen.

By doing so the government sought to imply – incorrectly – that previous ministers had been instructing hapless officials to publish incorrect forecasts.

But, addressing a parliamentary committee hearing, one of them, Chris Patten, the chairman of the supervisory BBC Trust, offered a sympathetic defense of the former director general, George Entwistle, whom he had hired, and who had been labeled hapless and bumbling by many politicians and newspaper columnists before and after his resignation on Nov. 10.