Sentence examples for to be toothless from inspiring English sources

It's going to be toothless.

Campaigners say Franklin's experiences reveal the code to be toothless – and instead ministers should act by cutting the stakes on the machines.

Then the publishers' grip on the reins of power will be revealed and the tiger will be shown to be toothless after all.

One reason the dispute has flared in recent years is that the 2002 accord has proved to be toothless, Michael Vatikiotis, a security expert at the Center for Humanitarian Dialogue in Singapore, said in a telephone interview.

Some said the Tory MP's committee had been shown to be toothless over the whole affair; others said he was in charge of an important arena in which media figures are called to account.

Then again, the opponents were sure to be toothless: Scotland were even more ravaged by injury, so much so that Andy Roxburgh had called up the 22-year-old Mackay, the first Hearts player to be selected for Scotland since 1974.

On the other: In addition to being toothless, the loris clutching the cocktail umbrella is reported to have suffered a head wound.

It is easy to see how such a mechanism could be toothless or ignored.

Headless, but Fanged Headless financial watchdogs need not be toothless.

Also, the current ban on selling ammunition to felons is toothless without making ammunition the subject of background checks.

Empire magazine gave it two out of five stars, calling it "laughable to just plain boring, Hannibal is toothless to the end".