| He will reintroduce the 10p income-tax rate that his predecessor, Gordon Brown, haplessly scrapped in his final budget as chancellor of the exchequer. |
| Small creatures tiptoe around, harvesting crumbs of happiness falling haplessly in their path. |
| Throw a tax cut their way, the argument goes, and like lovers haplessly lost to the aphrodisiacal effects of ground rhino horn, they'll be putty in your hands. |
| But it was in the immediate numinous aftermath of that predawn visit that I first saw the next, final stage of our haplessly greenward collapse. |
| The scene would often be repeated in the months ahead: unable to do much more than talk or adopt toothless declarations in the face of crises and conflicts, the CSCE would stand haplessly by. |
| At lunch he sat across from me, looking disconsolate and remaining totally uncommunicative, egg and mayonnaise streaming haplessly down his face. |
