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They set up a sharpened stake in the square beside the harbour, stripped the hapless hero naked and lowered him on to it.

The hapless lynx turns and twists in a vain attempt to throw its pursuer off the chase, but the hunter will not be denied.

It seems that many of the weird space launch tales involve some sort of hapless animal. This one is no different.

See What Happened! See what happened! Hapless Peter turned into a parking meter. On the club he stands all day, wishing dogs would go away.

Biological Disorders that (like diseases) people "get" or to which they fall hapless victim.

Even in defeat he may, like Samson, be ready to pull down the pillars of his rickety regime on his hapless people.

Before, "there was a barrier, " and Libya's hapless young men were to be pitied, Khalil said.

Mr. Smith has had an affair. Mrs. Smith, devastated, seems to be the hapless victim.

But if the virus or bacterium is one that our hapless rider has never wrestled, a different sort of immune response comes to the rescue.

The drama in the stocks of banks at the centre of the rumours, with Royal Bank of Scotland the latest hapless victim, did not permit that.

And Afghanistan, that complicated, hapless place, has long been a victim of its geography.

Still another segment of the public looks upon service members as hapless victims, and unfortunately for many, this is all too true.

Vercel, the hapless real estate agent is falsely persecuted by the police for murdering his wife and her lover.

At Enron the names should also have been a clue to hapless investors and staff that something was amiss.

The parable of the hapless Ms Dunn makes clear that separating the two top jobs is no guarantee of a harmonious board.

The hapless beggar did not implore Scrooge to bestow anything on him.

Players scurried for cover when the hapless pilot set the chopper down on the letter "H" painted in the corner of the cricket ground.

The hapless Gray Davis had been recalled, and the Austrian-born actor made a promising start to break the pattern.

Troopers hustle the hapless duty guard to Norton's door as he fumbles nervously with a huge key ring .

Customers embrace its iconic device, and then, like the hapless Trojans, find they have fallen into the hands of the gift-givers.

The plain lay like a vast and deserted charnel-house, without men whisper to disturb the slumbers of its numerous and hapless tenants.

Now he's using that information to satisfy his sadistic tendencies at the expense of that hapless willow.

When he reached Russia, however, the hapless Alexis learnt that his pardon was conditional on his revealing his "accomplices" .

Recent terrorist attempts may have failed, or even seemed hapless, but that's no guarantee the next bad guys won't be better trained.

then, when rapid solutions fail to work, bafflement and finally a sense of hapless resignation.

The big loser is Medvedev, the hapless president, who may be turfed out of the presidency when his term expires in 2012.

Germany's economy is booming, but Angela Merkel's government has become a hapless prisoner of its own fearfulness.

Language assistance isn't the only help out there for the hapless business traveller.

Platoon warming tents were set up in Koto -ri, a hapless little hamlet.

Greene's story of a hapless spy in Cuba makes those points in an unforgettable way.

Till then the best I'd managed was to get the opposite quality down to one: hapless.

If it is honest journeywork, yet lacks purchasers, at most you may call yourself a hapless tradesman.

That she has not been pressed harder in the campaign says much about the hapless opposition.

When the craze is over , some hapless investor will be left with a worthless piece of property .

Ms. Li is complained finally without the door, avowed and can hapless.

At a local level there are countless instances in which government colludes with developers to take land away from hapless peasants.

This dialog is a result of the programmer inflicting the implementation-model of the disk file system on the hapless user.

This seems justified given hapless policy responses to US and eurozone debt woes and accumulating evidence of slowing growth.

Arriving at the gas giant before the Falcon, Fett and Vader sprung a trap on the ship's hapless crew.

they'd be polite to his face, but behind his back, the brothers would unite in deriding the hapless guest.

in the carrier's well-being, so a " get transmitted quick" strategy is favored almost regardless of the cost to the hapless host.

"Sunshine Charley" avidly sold securities of dubious character to hapless clients and whipped up speculation with margin loans.

He can use magic, for the hapless, red devil could bring him the demon blood and light equipment, disaster, you guys have to be careful!

If "meat" , the hapless creature is clubbed to death with a lead pipe and skinned on the spot.

It thus remains an open question whether the hapless Mr Papandreou can knit the country to pull together to share pain.

Alas, the latest slaughter in Chhattisgarh showed how hapless outsiders can be.

Pity Georgia's bedraggled first infantry brigade. And its second. And its hapless navy.

The harsh right angles and rigid grid layout so despised by hapless cubicle-ines are also likely to vanish.

The hapless Mr Cameron was now the most unpopular prime minister in British history.

One could easily imagine Jean-Claude Trichet as the hapless Brian, left to rot on the cross as his comrades walk away.

This hapless creature had never known a moment's pleasure.

Some hapless programmer is then pulled off useful work and forced to work on this new feature.

Fear runs deep of foreign "wolves" snatching up hapless domestic industries in their blood-drenched maws.

So, when illegal traders catch them and sell them on, they usually remove the hapless creatures' teeth - with wire cutters.

While the story sounds impressive, he seems ungainly for such exploits, possibly a bit more hapless than debonair.

Ms Merkel, Mr Sarkozy and Mr Cameron in their different ways are all hapless prisoners of domestic opinion.

Many hapless girls have fallen into his trap, only to have their hearts broken.

A burst of laughter from the whole band of scholars greeted the unfortunate name of the hapless Court furrier.

With the supply side being mostly of greedy corporate unethical businesses and hapless common man.

It represents a challenge altogether beyond the grasp of Sir Alan's hapless apprentices.

What would someone who was the opposite of hapless be like?

Foreign diplomats, often bewildered by Iran's opaque power structure, are hopeful that he may be more effective than the hapless Mr Mottaki.

The hapless George Bush is partly to blame for this: his approval ratings are now sub-Nixonian.

The hapless four were criticised for their lack of banking expertise but it is, in fact, not clear what modern banking expertise is.

The hapless thief told staff in the internet cafe that he had a gun and demanded cash, according to local reports.

The hapless, mangled galaxy may have once looked more like our Milky Way, a pinwheel-shaped galaxy.

Of the hapless cops posing with Andy's reeking uniform and the worn rock- hammer. PUSH IN on the hammer .

That hapless fish, however, may be caught in deeper political waters.

They are masters of voodoo magics who can use their spirit-powers to both heal their allies and place curses upon their hapless enemies.

The author thinks, corruption has a deep level of complex factors, not to catch N hapless corrupt officials will be.

As the example of Mr Sokor shows, people affected by catastrophe are not necessarily helpless or hapless.

Yet its efforts have been so hapless that many accuse it of not really trying.

Instead of sending hapless rubs to the bot master's website, spam ads would instead funnel them to a site built by Kanich's team.

The most recent team to use three goalkeepers in a single tournament were the hapless Greece side of 1994.

The Hapless German Soldier During the World War II, a Belgium troop encountered a German troop.

The hapless ones bought stocks only when they felt comfort in doing so and then proceeded to sell when the headlines made them queasy.

They cheer his efforts to take on the corrupt and hapless president, Asif Ali Zardari.

But Xavier Darcos, the hapless labour minister, was pushed out of the government after polling just 28% in Aquitaine.

The earthquake has put that dichotomy on display. The Japanese government has been hapless.

Just the hapless Office of Thrift Supervision will disappear.

I have lost all faith in the media -- a hapless joke that I would much rather laugh at than become a party.

Trapped from behind by their own men, row after row of hapless Persians are impaled.

I'm happy that we didn't bombard a hapless team and stay under an illusion that we've played great football.

There is even a special unit to chase hapless migrants through the city's storm drains.

The hapless Gordon Brown has got precious little thanks.

Many in Germany saw the modest 74-year-old as a hapless victim of the credit crunch.

Snipers and irregulars fell on the hapless patrol.

He imprisoned the hapless blood elf soldiers in the dungeons of Dalaran and sentenced them to death.

He's has been compared to both Joseph Stalin and the hapless comedy character Mr Bean.

Even the hapless Dan Quayle, George Bush senior's sidekick, had served in the House and Senate for 12 years.

Join the Squad and rescue the hapless Darwins from fire ravaged buildings.

I hope everyone can pray for the hapless victims in the disaster.

But the worry is that a prolonged credit crunch could make microfinance clients start to look more like those hapless subprime borrowers.

The hapless states, like Liberia, want help, and sometimes they can be helped.

The hapless bond fund manager then has to go out and 'put that money to work, ' even in an overvalued market.

"We can't really arrest anyone any more, " moans the hapless governor.

His hapless lover was knocked down by a car.

Murphy won the worst actor award for playing the hapless hero of "Norbit. "

Hanging out: A hapless toddler dangles from a peg

hauled off and smacked the hapless aide across the face(Bill Barol)

of the hapless, goosenecked ships of Mars, Venus, and Jupiter Divisions;

and suddenly one day become a hapless; and hardships;

Someone lucky while someone hapless