The Dodd-Frank reform bill is often disparaged as toothless, and it's certainly not the kind of dramatic regime change one might have hoped for after runaway bankers brought the world economy to its knees.
In films these days, mature men are often bemused, toothless ogres.
Reality was often only a toothless second cousin to Dickey's beguiling revisions.
Though China's visual imagery, its silks and embroideries, were celebrated, it was often dismissed as toothless, dangerous perhaps in terms of sex and drugs, but not economic and military might.The exhibition has music, film clips, photography, elaborate headpieces, clothes (of course) and what seem like acres of mirrors.
Ms. Magnus found, however, that the law is toothless and commercial textiles are often sent to landfills.
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.
Most Sadrist and Sunni politicians refused to stand when they were last held, in January 2005, which meant that the provincial councils in Sunni areas were unrepresentative and often toothless.
After three hours with a corpse that arrives dirty, reeking, covered in its own purge, mouth and eyes gaping, often toothless, it is truly rewarding to stand back and see it clean and neat, smelling good, with no tubes or other implements of modern medicine sticking out of any orifices.
Ireland have been the competition's most unbalanced side, with an often toothless attack behind a batting unit of experience and quality.
There is no constitutional basis for distinguishing between "fundamental" rights and other genuine constitutional rights and applying a less rigorous (often toothless) standard of review to the latter.
