Sentences with phrase «hapless people»

SRG maintained that BSS members are the «masterminds of kidnappings / abductions for ransom; armed robbery; extortion of hapless people at gunpoint and other sundry acts of lawlessness and crimes against the state in Southeastern Nigeria.»

What killed these hapless people?

This may have happened when some hapless person was coinfected with both the African and Asian types — and the two strains hybridized into a new type before spreading into humans who then migrated to Europe, perhaps with the agricultural revolution 8000 years ago or so.

Not exact matches

«The dogs, for their part, all speak clear American English, which is ridiculous, charming and a little revealing; all these coy linguistic layers amount to their own form of marginalization, effectively reducing the hapless, unsuspecting people of Megasaki to foreigners in their own city.»

In the end, the person who may bring down Donald Trump just might not be a hapless James Comey or a slow - moving Robert Mueller.

The news spreads to the hapless refugees and, hapless no more, they sing and dance without letup until the blessed coast comes into sight, and with it, thousands of people waiting on the beach to welcome and celebrate them - those nine hundred whom the world has despised and rejected.

So...... about tonight's game; Arsenal: hapless, hopeless City: dominant, confident BUT, there's a thing both teams have in common; their respective performances is a true reflection of their manager's abilities... For anyone to still want wenger at arsenal, that person has to really hate arsenal, be a troll, or a consummate idiot (I feel sorry to say this)...... If only Stan would text him his sack letter this night... (he should send it at least twice, along with two emails too.....

Watching the latest, entirely hapless, efforts of Theresa May to seem like a normal human person by attempting to participate in that most regrettable of group activities, a Mexican wave, your columnist was struck by how apt a metaphor it was for the ineptitude shown by Liverpool FC in their transfer strategy so far this summer.

The «connection» comes when people feel they have a voice, not when they are used as ventriloquists» hapless dummies.

Most of the Corbyn supporters I've spoken to are neither cunning Trotskyites nor hapless fools, they're ordinary people who believe that the Labour party should consistently stand for certain values.

The problem of not knowing why it exists, combined with poor governance, multiple ambitious regional powers, and a multitude of other people's wars, appears too lethal for this hapless country to overcome.

The NLC President, however, expressed shock that rather than call for the sanction of governors who failed to properly utilise their bail - out funds, and creating misery to the people as well as overheating the polity, Okupe would be calling for the «blood of hapless civil servants».

Nevertheless, it does seem that the highest earners (or those with sympathetic wealthier parents) will be able to pay off their loans more quickly, thus avoiding interest, which the hapless middle income people will have to pay.

Think of the Federal Emergency Management Agency's hapless Michael Brown and how he discovered thousands of people were trapped in the New Orleans convention center: «I learned about it from the news reports,» he said.

Most people do understand that the industry inundates hapless consumers with outlandish promises in pill / supplement form.

You've heard people utter this phrase about a hapless dater — or would - be dater.

I understand why the writers would go to great pains to explain why quitting isn't an option; not many people would see a movie called, «Horrible Previous Employers,» but instead of using their over-educated brains to come up with a way to get their bosses fired, our hapless crew instead decides that they must be killed.

After I figured it out I was thinking that I could just hang out in that room and help people - become a guide to hapless souls, but I just left them all there to struggle the same way that I did.

While she ultimately becomes COMPASSIONATE through her concern for Nell (who is targeted by the house when other people aren't around), Theo fails to look even remotely frightened as major portions of the house are blowing up in her face or chasing our hapless heroes.

If this film has any positive effects, its that it will encourage people to revisit Lon Chaney Jr. camping it up as the hapless victim of lycanthropy in the 1941 classic The Wolf Man.

Lou's bloodless, balance - sheet regard for the people in his life - his TV editor client (Rene Russo), his hilariously hapless intern (Riz Ahmed)- are what form the basis of the movie's escalating levels of horror and black comedy.

Winfried, a sixtyish bear of a man, amiably greets the hapless postal worker who rings his bell, then runs off and returns with a set of false teeth and a ridiculous disguise, pretending to be that first person's twin brother, who just happens to be a radical bomber.

The play stars John Leguizamo, Cedric the Entertainer, and Haley Joel Osment, resurrected from his «I See Dead People» child - star past, as a trio of hapless, small - time con men who plot to steal a cache of rare coins.

But, these otherwise talented people are not learning designers so have little appreciation of learning design and the impact of their decree that superfluous material needs to be presented to the hapless work force.

However, you appear only as a spectre, and most people can't see or interact with you (this leads to some amusing tricks you can play on villagers — you can actually try to convince a hapless clergyman that you're God.).

Give the cursed crown to her, and you will find that she will make her servant touch the crown person, damning and imprisoning the hapless servant forever.

Long before Cindy Sherman was inventing fictional selves for the camera, for instance, Hershman Leeson had come up with an alter ego in the person of the hapless blonde Roberta Breitmore (played by the artist herself, in awkward wig and glasses).

You describe a hapless bunch of people that are scientifically ignorant but who for whatever reason care enough about climate to come to the internet and ask questions.

On one side are people like Thomas Karl and Thomas Petersen, the hapless NOAA scientists given the unenviable task of producing that risible paper last year which did its best to deny that the Pause was a thing.

From the notion that Mann calls himself a Noble Laureate, to his bullying, to the hapless DC courts with no judgement, a story the American people need to read.

I am not at this time addressing all of the other abuses of the hapless laws of thermodynamics and physics in general that occur in on - list discussion because I'm just one person, and it has now taken me at a guess over a hundred posts over three days to mostly convince at least some of the people who believed that it was true and correct that they were mistaken.

Joan Baez was a personality before she was entirely a person, and, like anyone to whom that happens, she is in a sense the hapless victim of what others have seen in her, written about her, wanted her to be and not be.

Respect the «out of office message» on email and don't dump a ton of emails on the hapless vacationing person that they will have to dig through on their return.

Some of these people can be so hostile and angry that if their looks could kill, the hapless Realtor would fall down lifelessly on the spot.