Sentence examples for given teeth from inspiring English sources

The new goals should not be allowed to operate as easily ignored principles, but need to be given teeth.

It might even have given teeth to the existing anti-corruption body.Kabul was not the only source of dispiriting news for NATO.

And it should be given teeth, including the power to ban or fine auditors for misdeeds.Second is the urgent need to eliminate conflicts of interest in accounting firms.

At Acevo, in a recent letter to Miliband, we called for "citizens' rights" to choice and voice in public services to be entrenched in legislation, in statements of practice like the NHS constitution, and be given teeth.

Nearly a third of household spending goes on products with monopoly or tight-oligopoly suppliers.The competition authorities have recently been given teeth, with bigger fines and even prison sentences for offenders.

The court has repeatedly refused to give her bail after frivolous objections raised by the lawyer for the accusing neighbour.The blasphemy law under which Rimsha has been arrested dates back to colonial times, but it was given teeth in the 1980s by the dictator of the day, General Zia ul Haq, who promoted Islamism.

The honed tooth surface can be approximated to the given tooth surface by adjusting the polynomial coefficients through least squares estimation with the aim of minimization of the tooth surface errors based on sensitivity matrix.

They are notches in the teeth designed to break the chip and decrease the overall amount of material being removed by any given tooth (see the drawing above).

Therefore within a given tooth type there will be teeth at different developmental stages.

Table 2 contains information related to the last restoration of a given tooth (restoration date) and information about the date at which the restoration failed (restoration duration).

But Healy decided to give teeth to that quiet opposition.