The phrase "added teeth" is correct and usable in written English.
It is typically used to describe something that has been strengthened or made more forceful, often in the context of rules, regulations, or policies.
Example: "The new legislation has added teeth to the enforcement of environmental regulations, ensuring compliance among corporations."
Alternatives: "increased enforcement" or "greater authority".
And some states have added teeth: in South Dakota, for example, students must pass exams to progress to junior year.
On Wednesday, the court added teeth to that requirement, ruling that Arkansas violated a homeowner's right to due process when it sold his house for nonpayment of taxes after sending him two certified letters that came back "unclaimed".
We get Tom Jericho (Dougray Scott), a young Cambridge mathematician, who, after a nervous collapse, is summoned back to Bletchley to aid the fight against Shark, a German code with added teeth.
Overturning a Louisiana death-row inmate's conviction by a vote of 7 to 2, with only Justices Scalia and Thomas dissenting, the court gave added teeth to its rule against racial discrimination in jury selection.
The change added teeth to the department's little-used authority to reject premiums that would generate unjustifiably large profits or leave an insurer unable to pay its customers' bills.
Perfect365 belongs to a growing breed of selfie-help apps, like FaceTune, ModiFace, Pixtr and Visage Lab, that let anyone with fingers and a smartphone transform basic snapshots into flawless Annie Leibovitz portraits (Buzzfeed's John Herrman dubs this "selfie surgery"). Eyelashes can be added, teeth whitened, smiles stretched, pounds shed, clocks reversed, genes fought.
He will return today and will certainly add teeth to Pakistan in more ways than one.
Seek to add teeth to an existing ban on racial profiling.
Similarly, the 1998 Statute for the International Criminal Court was an effort to add teeth to the earlier Geneva regime.
The hybrid stepper essentially adds teeth to a permanent magnet motor, resulting in better coupling of the magnetic field into the rotor and more precise movement.
I'm not going to claim that money doesn't impel people toward desired results; money can add teeth to any catalytic mechanism.
