Sentence examples for Toothless laws from inspiring English sources

Women's voices and opinions are often missing from community-wide discussions on development and finance, and weak institutions and toothless laws often leave women lacking empowerment economically.

Re "Think Those Chemicals Have Been Tested?" (news analysis, Sunday Review, April 14) and "A Toothless Law on Toxic Chemicals" (editorial, April 19): There has been misinformation and negative publicity about high-profile chemicals, resulting in public anxiety and calls to overhaul existing laws.

In fact, it has been called a "toothless" law that is inadequate to protect consumers.

Previous attempts to do this failed because toothless bankruptcy laws emboldened debtors to be recalcitrant.

With a conflict disclosure system rife with holes, virtually toothless ethics laws often left to the interpretation of the lawmakers they are supposed to regulate, and a Legislature that has appeared unwilling to make itself more transparent, the reality is Texans know little about who or what influences the people who are elected to represent them.

Unimaginable hubris meets astonishing delusion meets toothless campaign laws; all converging at the intersection of questions that are yet to be answered -- and perhaps never will be.

For too long, the chemical industry has been shielded by toothless toxics laws that have kept us in the dark about the risks of everyday toxics.

But it had one small hitch: it drove customers mad and led to the Do Not Call Registry.Hitherto, telemarketing has been regulated by a toothless 1994 law that allowed individuals to "opt out" of calls only on a seller-by-seller basis.

Mr Bersani has promised a serious conflict-of-interest law and a revision of last year's toothless anti-corruption law.

But while farmers worry that the rules will be too stringent, food safety advocates worry that budget cuts could render the law toothless.

An NSPCC-supported plan to extend the sex offenders' register to include their online identities and email addresses was deemed a breach of offenders' rights under European law in December 2008, and while it remains a government commitment, the ease with which Chapman created his online alter ego demonstrates how toothless such a law would prove.