Sentence examples for hapless response from inspiring English sources

Still, the European Union's hapless response to its current social and economic challenges has made it an easy target.

Jimmy Carter may have brokered peace between Israel and Egypt at Camp David, but his hapless response to the fall of the shah of Iran and the rise of Islamic theocracy in 1979 has bedeviled American foreign policy ever since.

With some honorable exceptions, politicians and the news media weren't willing to take the issue on until President Bush had already been politically wounded by the failure of his Social Security plans and his hapless response to Hurricane Katrina – and a majority of the public had already come to the conclusion that we were misled into war.

One was Burma's unmistakable economic decline and dysfunction, horribly amplified by the hapless official response to Cyclone Nargis in 2008.

In response, a hapless Andre could only bellow and writhe in frustration.

"The Twilight War" explains the baffled and sometimes hapless and often contradictory response of American policy makers to the Iranian revolution over the last 33 years.

Wrong reception... hapless rapper Lil Wayne.

As Anthony says, grief is our uppermost response — and sadness, and a hapless sympathy for the dead and their families.

Wallace's response to the idea is sceptical with respect to celebrity dynamics, but not hapless.

The apparently sluggish response to the disease by the government is another stick with which to beat the hapless Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affair (Defra) after the furore over the forests sell-off and badger cull.

Of bongs and bureaucrats It's back An Englishman's home ReprintsThe response to all this from François Hollande, France's Socialist president since mid-2012, hasoso far been hapless.