Sentence examples for hapless effort from inspiring English sources

It took the lead in an almost comically hapless effort to eradicate opium cultivation.

Despite Mr Salmond's hapless effort to rebrand them as "Scolympians", they were as committed to the British team as any of its other members.

The Yankees being the Yankees, for whom anything less than a World Series trophy is a symbol of failure, Cano also arrived at camp shadowed by his hapless effort in last season's playoffs.

(For example: Kimberley is always pointing out plain black women in magazines and going on about how beautiful they are, in a hapless effort to show Ifemelu she isn't racist).

Incoming Newcastle coach Nathan Brown has inherited an absolute mess with the Knights, who ingloriously claimed their second wooden spoon with a hapless effort against a decimated Panthers team.

After I arrived, I had booked a local guide to go bonefishing on the fifth day for fear I would need something to look forward to, but while I enjoyed my hapless effort at fly fishing — the guide caught fish, I reeled them in — I would have been just as happy back at Little Deadman's Cay.

The situation has been made worse by the Pakistani government's half-hearted and hapless efforts to tackle sectarian militancy.

The battlefield successes of the Y.P.G. contrasted starkly with the generally hapless efforts of American proxies elsewhere in Syria.

His hapless efforts created mission impossible: trying to hold Real Madrid with 10 men against 11 for three-quarters of the game.

"All we're doing with these hapless efforts at conference diplomacy is continuing to talk while North Korea continues to build nuclear weapons".

Apparently the humor is supposed to flow from the workaholic dad's hapless efforts to reconnect with domestic life after the stay-at-home mom threatens divorce.