Italian courts have sometimes proved hapless.
Elsewhere, most of his brave counterparts from the resistance era, such as Solidarity's hero, Lech Walesa, proved hapless in office.
Three wickets down for 36 in the powerplay – two of them to stumpings including Luke Wright first ball – and already 20 runs and three wickets adrift of West Indies at the equivalent stage, England proved hapless against the spin of the wrist spinner Samuel Badree, Sunil Narine (until he left the field after two indecipherable overs) and Samuels.
But where Arnold Vinick (played by Alan Alda) was a masterful campaigner who stayed neck-and-neck with Santos to the bitter end, McCain has proved hapless, behind in the polls now as he has been for a month or more.
If so, 2017 would not be very different from 2012, when Mr Leung, who was probably China's second choice, won after the favoured candidate proved utterly hapless.
David Kennedy of Stanford University theorized in a postelection Op-Ed in The Times that we're reliving the late 19th-century Gilded Age, when all the presidents proved to be hapless, Congress switched back and forth madly as voters threw the bums out over and over again, and the country experienced a raft of critical problems and impending crises, combined with "abject political paralysis".
So far, Democrats have proved to be mostly hapless in capitalizing on the rage that many Americans still feel toward Wall Street, big banks, and an economic system that inhibits most people's advancement.
A politician representing China's autocratic ruling communist administration appears decisive and resolute in the face of Decepticon attacks in the film, while the democratic USA's chief of staff proves himself a hapless idiot.
(Photograph: Ben Miao Anna Sophie Loewenbergg is the star and producer of "Sexy Beijing," an online series of sly, knowing videos about a hapless, curious foreigner which has proved popular among expats, language students, and mainland Chinese.
By Evan Osnos July 9, 2009 Anna Sophie Loewenberg is the star and producer of "Sexy Beijing," an online series of sly, knowing videos about a hapless, curious foreigner which has proved popular among expats, language students, and mainland Chinese.
Anna Sophie Loewenberg is the star and producer of "Sexy Beijing," an online series of sly, knowing videos about a hapless, curious foreigner which has proved popular among expats, language students, and mainland Chinese.
